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... “Hello, Thomas. It was too much to hope that you’d been an evening meal for buzzards, but I see your master has put your few talents to good use.” Sh...

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...table character flaws. "Actually, she's seen the miracles you work with my buzzard's nest and she was hoping you could do the same for her." "Rain? Ra...

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...ded his arms and laid his head in their crux. Judge Farnham came in looking like a buzzard driven from its road kill. “All rise,” the baliff i...

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...uffled one or two corrupted feathers, but there are lots of trees full of buzzards waiting to swoop down on the righteous. ―Anyone charged wit...

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...g the exclusive realm of the most dominant killers of birds: hawks, eagles and buzzards. The myth/lie of the 3 rd eye: the attempt to envisage an ex...

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... for the sake of the future. 88 Spoon River Anthology Dillard Sissman THE buzzards wheel slowly In wide circles, in a sky Faintly hazed as from dust ... ...oulders; And the tail streams out momentarily, Then sinks to rest. And the buzzards wheel and wheel, Sweeping the zenith with wide circles Above my ki... ...ltgeld elected Governor? 92 The bank broke and I lost my savings. 90 The buzzards wheel slowly 88 The cooper should know about tubs. 40 The earth ...

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...thought himself that he had better not send it. If it was not to Lady Bradeen at Twindle—where she knew her ladyship then to be—this was because an ad... ...nsider. It was of course most complicated, only half lighted; but there was, dis- cernibly enough, a scheme of communication in which Lady Bradeen at ... ...long as she did remember and did mind he could only circle about and go and come, doing futile things of which he was ashamed. He was ashamed of his t...

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...e have also of an inferior rank, The Stanyel, the Ringtail, The Raven, the Buzzard, The Forked Kite, the Bald Buzzard, The Hen driver, and others that... ... with a yellow list on either side; and the wings taken off the wings of a buzzard, bound with black braked hemp. The eighth is the moorish fly; made,... ...t with yellow silk; the wings made of the feathers of the drake, or of the buzzard. The eleventh is the shell fly, good in mid July: the body made of ... ...with the herle of a peacock’s tail: and the wings made of the wings of the buzzard. The twelfth is the dark drake fly, good in Au The Compleat Angler...

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...as you. HASTINGS: More pity that the eagle should be mew’d, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. GLOUCESTER: What news abroad? HASTINGS: No ne...

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... Pet. Shold be, should: buzze. 1081 Kate. Well tane, and like a buzzard. 1082 Pet. Oh slow- wing’d Turtle, shal a buzard take thee?...

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... ‘s choorch afoor moy Sally wur dead, An’ ‘eerd un a bummin’ awaay loike a buzzard-clock* ower my yead, An’ I niver knaw’d whot a mean’d but I thowt a...

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...ought of dying in the woods, all alone, and of being torn to pieces by the buzzards, had not yet been rendered tolerable by my many troubles and hard-... ...ery country town of the state, watching for chances to buy human flesh (as buzzards to eat carrion) flocked in upon us, to ascertain if our masters ha...

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...own bird. I searched in my mind for the largest English wild birds, geese, buzzards. Still it laboured and strove, then was still, a dark spot, then s...

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...nt and survived. The strange per- sistence of these fourteen martyrs might seem to point to monomania or a series of romantic passions; gin is the mor...

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...o days and nights in the moral and physical stenches of that intolerable old buzzard roost! mean, for me: of course the place was all right and agreea... ...LL UNCORKED AMID AWFUL OUTBURSTS OF INFERNAL FIRE AND SMOKE ATHUNDER! —— THE BUZZARD ROOST ASTONISHED! —— UNPARALLELED REJOIBINGS! — and so on, and so...

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...rs,—you understand! Baudoyer, for instance, he’ll make an excellent turkey-buzzard.” Bixiou. “Ris d’aboyeur d’oie!” [He has watched Dutocq care- fully...

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...ne, and accounted safe and pious! Fools! “Do you think the Living God is a buzzard idol,” sternly asks Milton, that you dare address Him in this manne...

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...k of geese, a senate; a lame dog, an invader; the plague, a standing army; a buzzard, a prime minister; the gout, a high priest; a gibbet, a secretary...

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...e one whittled by an idiot out of a knot; flat, bony mouth, nipped between buzzard nose and chin; expression, flitting between hunks and imbe- cile—no...

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...d sir. Come, go into the business with us. What would you like to be,—pig, buzzard, clown, or millionaire? Reflect upon it; I have now laid before you...

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... the next morning’s train to Boston, and there take another to the shores of Buzzard’s Bay. The hotel itself offered few resources; the inmates were n...

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...y duck if they don’t hang you, too. And they will, if you’re a Democrat. The buzzard is the sacred bird of the South, and you can’t touch him; the all...

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...o- ing the talking, and Thuillier is sitting there listening to him like a buzzard. I shall go in and tell them they can’t keep ladies waiting that wa...

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...ead, round, vulture-shaped head, and sharp-hooked nose, like the beak of a buzzard? Ali,” cried he, striking at the same time on the brazen gong. Ali ...

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...ss of governing; for I know no more about the government of islands than a buzzard; and if there’s any reason to think that be- cause of my being a go...

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...ss of governing; for I know no more about the government of islands than a buzzard; and if there’s any reason to think that be- cause of my being a go...

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...life giving springs--the way marked for men by ancient Indian pictographs. Life and death play out at these springs. Rabbits fall prey to the coyote; buzzards hang heavily in the sky above. She then writes of individuals who eke out their living in this land of scarce resources--an itinerant gold prospector, a sheepherder, a blind Indian basket maker. Austin's spare prose ...

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...O: Should be! should—buzz! KATHARINA: Well ta’en, and like a buzzard. PETRUCHIO: O slow wing’d turtle! shall a buzzard take thee? KAT... ...rtle! shall a buzzard take thee? KATHARINA: Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard. The Taming of the Shrew: Act II, scene i 31 PETRUCHIO: Come, ...

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... seeing so many about him, he said with a loud voice, I believe that these buzzards will have me to pay them here my welcome hither, and my Proficiat.... ...teen hundred leverets, or young hares and rabbits, three hundred and three buzzards, and one thousand and seven hundred cockerels. For veni- son, they... ... his snoring. There was no making him sing. By G— , quoth Panurge, you old buzzard, if you won’t sing by fair means, you shall by foul. Having said th...

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...list may be included four species of the Caracara or Polyborus, the Turkey buzzard, the Gallinazo, and the Condor. The Caracaras are, from their struc... ...he man be who attempts such a meal. We have now only to mention the turkey-buzzard (Vultur aura), and the Gallinazo. The former is found wherever the ... ...sis and Chimango, it has found its way to the Falkland Islands. The turkey-buzzard is a solitary bird, or at most goes in pairs. It may at once be rec... ...d Professor Owen has demon- strated that the olfactory nerve of the turkey-buzzard (Cathartes aura) are highly developed, and on the evening when Mr. ... ...ried in th United States many varied plans, showing that neither th turkey-buzzard (the species dissected by Professor Owen nor the gallinazo find the... ...n- sist, firstly, of a hawk, curiously intermediate in structure between a buzzard and the American group of carrion-feeding Polybori; and with these ... ...ferent ends. In a like manner it might be fancied that a bird originally a buzzard, had been induced here to undertake the office of the carrion-feedi... ...as they are hatched, fall a prey in great num- bers to the carrion-feeding buzzard. The old ones seem generally to die from accidents, as from falling... ...-thrushes, the finches, wrens, tyrant-flycatchers, the dove, and car- rion-buzzard. All of them are often approached suf- ficiently near to be killed ...

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... than that. I have not missed any rib … . She is in much trouble about the buzzard; says grass does not agree with it; is afraid she can’t raise it; t... ...d she can’t raise it; thinks it was intended to live on decayed flesh. The buzzard must get along the best it can with what is provided. We cannot ove... ...what is provided. We cannot overturn the whole scheme to ac commodate the buzzard. SATURDAY.—She fell in the pond yesterday when she was looking at h... ...eep the remark to myself; it only gave her an idea—she could save the sick buzzard, and furnish fresh meat to the despondent lions and tigers. I advis...

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...hed on branches to which they were nailed,—hawks, herons, owls, nightjars, buzzards, tiercels, vultures, falcons,—my cousin who, dressed in a sealskin...

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... the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low, In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 70 In vai... ... swimming, In lower latitudes in warmer air in the Carolinas the large black buzzard floating slowly high beyond the tree tops, Below, the red cedar f...

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...leveland. I received from him the following autograph reply:— Gray Gables, Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., October 6, 1895. Booker T. Washington, Esq.: My Dear ...

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...ones. Tush, man! There be many good fellows left in this world.” “There be buzzards in eagles’ nests,” Wamba said, who was lying stretched before the ...

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...ss-back of our own country, black gannets, and a large bird not unlike the buzzard in appearance, but not carnivorous. Of fish there seemed to be a gr...

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...field, upon Johnston’s army at Dalton; but finding the enemy’s position at Buzzard’s Roost, cover- ing Dalton, too strong to be assaulted, General McP...