...ey were so small and weak, the little brown houses. They were shelters for sparrows, not homes for warm laughing people. She told herself that down th... ...t having ideas; but Hugh’s questions made her attentive to the comedies of sparrows, robins, blue jays, yellowhammers; she re- gained her pleasure in ... ...light seen though trees on a cool evening, sunshine on brown wood, morning sparrows, black sloping roofs turned to plates of silver by moonlight. Plea... ...She took his hand confidently. Unspeaking they sat on a bleached log, in a russet twilight which hinted of autumn. Linden leaves fluttered about them....

...n the silent trees, the falling fir-cones, the congealed relics of autumn, russet leaves, swept by past winds in heaps, and now stiffened together. I ... ...e brown birds, which stirred occasionally in the hedge, looked like single russet leaves that had forgotten to drop. This lane inclined up-hill all th... ...crowned with lotus-flowers, rising out of them; an elf sitting in a hedge- sparrow’s nest, under a wreath of hawthorn-bloom One morning I fell to sket... ...ust as if a royal eagle, chained to a perch, should be forced to entreat a sparrow to become its purveyor. But I would not be lachrymose: I dashed off...

...us to hint that I have ever since deemed this the proudest passage in my life. But such instances, or any tokens of vitality, are rare in- deed in my ... ...ng home richly laden, the active little steam- tugs confidently puffing with them to and from the sea- horizon, the fleet of barges that seem to have ...

... birds in the air at once,’ said Louis, beginning to chirp like a melee of sparrows, turning it into the croak of a raven, and breaking off suddenly w... ..., but colour, as I have seen a camera clear itself—blue sky, purple hills, russet and orange woods, a great elm green picked out with yellow, a mass o...

...ng to shut the door, ‘dreadful unbusiness-like to see him whistling to the sparrows down the court, and making of ‘em answer him.’ ‘You said he wanted... ...ully as if he were not coming back for a week, went on his quest among the sparrows in the court. While he was gone, Mr Carker assumed his favourite a... ... of sun peeping in from the great street round the cor- ner, and the smoky sparrows hopped over it and back again, brightening as they passed: or bath... ...ening as they passed: or bathed in it, like a stream, and became glorified sparrows, unconnected with chimneys. Leg- ends in praise of Ginger-Beer, wi... ...uilt out, and don’t shine there. There is a meagre tree outside, where the sparrows are chirping a little; and there is a blackbird in an eyelet-hole ... ... the footsteps, harassed him to death. Objects began to take a bleared and russet colour in his eyes. Dombey and Son was no more—his children no more....

... a regular rage! Only look at his eyes—and Henry just like Gertrude’s Java sparrow in a taking—’ ‘It must not be,’ cried Ethel, starting up to attempt... ...about in his holiday spectacles, and sees a bird of paradise in every cock-sparrow.’ ‘Isn’t there a glass house that can sometimes make a swan?’ said ... ...owd in the steamer for rousing him to perceive that he was no longer among russet coats and blue shirts; but he stood motionless, gazing, or at least ... ... greatly Richard’s fault,’ said Ethel. ‘I can hardly get Leonard to make a sparrow’s meal here, and most likely his mouth has been too uncomfortable.’...

...cotch?” inquired Winter. “What Scotch?” “Ours, egad!” exclaimed Athos. “Those in whom the king has confided—Lord Leven’s Highlanders.” “No,” said Wint... ...y. You cannot understand the position we are in. In this kind of game, not to kill is to let one’s self be killed. This fox of a fellow will be sendin...

...to him and me; and at morning, when roused by the flutter and chirp of the sparrows, and the gleeful twitter of the swallows—all intent upon feeding t... ... of leaning forward, with the cold, raw wind in my face, and surveying the russet hedges and the damp, tangled grass of their banks, I gave it up and ...

... head, a “poul cat,” marten cats, and hedgehogs. These last, together with sparrows, continue to appear till 1832, when the Rev. Robert Shuckburgh, in... ...us).—Sometimes hovering over heathlands or farmyards, but not very common. Sparrow-Hawk (Accipiter fringillarius).—Taken in a trap set for rats at Ott... ...ld be without his pert movements when he comes down alter- nately with his russet wife. One blackbird with a broad white feather on each side of his t... ...lackheaded or Reed Bunting (Emberiza schaenidus).— Brambridge, April 1896. Sparrow (Passer domesticus).—One curious fact about this despised animal is... ... whom Elderfield is named, made it his business to exterminate the village sparrows. He often brought them down to one, but always by the next morning... ...ws. He often brought them down to one, but always by the next morning that sparrow had provided him- self with a mate to share his Castle Dangerous. S...

...orn. ‘Approach and arm me!’ With slow steps from out An old storm-beaten, russet, many-stained Pavilion, forth a grizzled damsel came, And armed him ... ...s the tumult in the town?’ 50 Tennyson Who told him, scouring still, ‘The sparrow-hawk!’ Then riding close behind an ancient churl, Who, smitten by t... ... yet once more what meant the hubbub here? Who answered gruffly, ‘Ugh! the sparrow-hawk. ’ Then riding further past an armourer’s, Who, with back turn... ... turning round, nor looking at him, said: ‘Friend, he that labours for the sparrow-hawk Has little time for idle questioners. ’ Whereat Geraint flashe... ...’ Whereat Geraint flashed into sudden spleen: ‘A thousand pips eat up your sparrow-hawk! Tits, wrens, and all winged nothings peck him dead! Ye think ... ...f your bourg The murmur of the world! What is it to me? O wretched set of sparrows, one and all, Who pipe of nothing but of sparrow-hawks! Speak, if ... ...at the point of noon the huge Earl Doorm, Broad-faced with under-fringe of russet beard, Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey, Came riding with a hu... ... me be. ’ Then strode the brute Earl up and down his hall, And took his russet beard between his teeth; Last, coming up quite close, and in his moo... ...and with a sweep of it Shore through the swarthy neck, and like a ball The russet-bearded head rolled on the floor. So died Earl Doorm by him he count...

... thus left the woods to ring again with their ech oes; and it may be many russet clad children, lurking in those broad meadows, with the bittern and ... ...disk of a star. At intervals we were serenaded by the song of a dream ing sparrow or the throttled cry of an owl, but after each sound which near at ... ...hile, like hawks, that would fain keep on the wing, and trust to pick up a sparrow now and then. 76 AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers There are alr... ...t first “Away! away!” Many a lengthy reach we’ve rowed, Still the sparrow on the spray Hastes to usher in the day With her simple st... ... other held it fast against its incisors as chisels. Like an inde pendent russet leaf, with a will of its own, rustling whither it could; now under t... ...etteth his rain fall on the just and on the unjust, and without whom not a sparrow falleth to the ground, would not neglect the stranger (meaning me),... ... of all these birds that people the air and forest for our solacement? The sparrows seem always chipper, never infirm. We do not see their bodies lie ... ...trouble of watching for rocks, we saw by the flitting clouds, by the first russet tinge on the hills, by the rushing river, the cottages on shore, and...

... stood in ragged lines waiting. The sun rose hot on a cloudless day. A few sparrows twit- tered about the tin roof of the barracks. “Hell, we’re not g... ...the reddish-grey sky. The train had stopped on a siding in the middle of a russet plain. Yellow poplars, faint as mist, rose slender against the sky a... ...ce. No, he couldn’t stay in the medics. The train had started again. Misty russet fields slipped by and dark clumps of trees that gyrated slowly wavin... ...d just risen was shining in rosily through the soft clouds of the sky. The sparrows kept up a great clattering in the avenue of plane trees. Their rio... ...ach with a vivid green streak on one side. With every step the last year’s russet leaves rustled underfoot, maddeningly loud. Almost out of sight amon... ...was a spongy mass of purple and yellow and red, half of which stuck to the russet leaves when the body rolled over. Large flies with bright shiny gree... ...in front of him. The water gleamed in the sunlight as it ran out among the russet leaves. A wind had come up, making the woods resound. A shower of ye... ... a glance of madness in its pink eye with a black center. It hopped like a sparrow along the pavement, emitting a rubber tube from its back, which wen...

...ink, or I will,— No, no, drink, I beseech you (Ou je vous, je vous prie.). Sparrows will not eat unless you bob them on the tail, nor can I drink if I... ...hs, playing, singing, dancing, tumbling in some fair meadow, unnestling of sparrows, tak- ing of quails, and fishing for frogs and crabs. But although... ...t excellent hawks, eagles, gerfalcons, goshawks, sacres, lanners, falcons, sparrowhawks, marlins, and other kinds of them, so gentle and perfectly wel... ...ried on their lovely fists, miniardly begloved every one of them, either a sparrowhawk or a laneret or a marlin, and the young gallants carried the ot... ...akful of li- quor till they be bobbed on the tails after the manner of the sparrows. O companion! if I could mount up as well as I can get down, I had... ... his subjects and clients. He then took four French ells of a coarse brown russet cloth, and therein apparelling himself, as with a long, plain- seame... ...r I shall once more preach the Cru- sade. Bounce, buckram. Do you see this russet? Doubt not but there lurketh under it some hid property and occult v... ...ched himself, it was new proclamations. When he spoke, it was coarse brown russet cloth; so little it was like crimson silk, with which Parisatis desi...

...nade a villagernthe wood thrush, the veery, the scarlet tanager, the field sparrow, the whip poor will, and many others. I was seated by the shore ... ...ing like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. As the sparrow had its trill, sitting on the hickory before my door, so had I my c... ...lexed, As tame at the first sight as now, In thy plain russet gabardine dressed.” “Come ye who love, And ye who... ...ich I was carrying in, and pecked at the sticks without fear. I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a villag... ...inter quarters. On the 13th of March, after I had heard the bluebird, song sparrow, and red wing, the ice was still nearly a foot thick. As the weathe... ...anks, and the sun, dispersing the mist, smiles on a checkered landscape of russet and white smoking with incense, through which the traveller picks hi... ..., and fell into a strain of invective that was irre sistible. The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! The fain...

...ade a villager, — the wood thrush, the veery, the scarlet tanager, the field sparrow, the whippoorwill, and many others. I was seated by the shore of ... ...nging like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. As the sparrow had its trill, sitting on the hickory before my door, so had I my... ...uestions art never perplexed, As tame at the first sight as now, In thy plain russet gabardine dressed.” * * “Come ye who love, And ye who hate, Childr... ...which I was carrying in, and pecked at the sticks without fear. I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a vill... ... winter quarters. On the 13th of March, after I had heard the bluebird, song sparrow, and red wing, the ice was still nearly a foot thick. As the weat... ...ow banks, and the sun dispersing the mist smiles on a checkered landscape of russet and white smoking with incense, through which the traveller picks ... ...r force, and fell into a strain of invective that was irresistible. The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! The fa...

...ver, everything has its compensa- tion, and when day came at last, and the sparrows awoke with trills and carol-ets, the dawn seemed to fall on me lik... ... of our window), and such continual visitation of grey doves and big-nosed sparrows, as make our little bye-street into a perfect aviary. I look acros... ...elicate green shoots upright and beginning to frond out, among last year’s russet bracken. Flights of crows were passing continually between the wintr... ...blessed thing that, in this forest of art, we can pursue our wood-lice and sparrows, and not catch them, with almost the same fervour of exhilaration ...

...owing, Threaten the head that I love. THE SORROW OF LOVE THE brawling of a sparrow in the eaves, The brilliant moon and all the milky sky, And all tha... ...ood’s woven shade, And dance upon the level shore? Young man, lift up your russet brow, And lift your tender eyelids, maid, And brood on hopes and fea... ...d covered the world with shade, And whispered to mankind. Upon the time of sparrow chirp When the moths came once more. The old priest Peter Gilligan ... ...ND AMONG THE REEDS 65 MAID QUIET WHERE has Maid Quiet gone to, Nodding her russet hood? The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood...

... mighty parent’s care hast found, Without whose tender guardian thought No sparrow falleth to the ground. - 77 - Morienti Superstes Coleridge: Poem... ...on the First of February 1796 1796 Sweet flower! that peeping from thy russet stem Unfoldest timidly, (for in strange sort This dark, frieze-c... ... Answer to a Child’s Question 1802 Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove, The Linnet and Thrush say, ‘‘I love and I love!’’ In...

...r ordinary biped, of any country or generation, be he gold mantled Prince or russet jerkined Peas ant, that his Vestments and his Self are not one an... ...rugged all nourishing Earth,’ as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the house top, much more her darling, man? While thou stirrest...

...perhaps, if the weather be particularly genial, even tempts some rheumatic sparrow to chirrup in its branches. People sometimes call these dark yards ... ...nd large moustachios, who rode a-hunting in clothes of Lincoln green, with russet boots on his feet, and a bugle slung over his shoulder like the guar... ...y other gentlemen of inferior rank, in Lincoln green a little coarser, and russet boots with a little thicker soles, turned out directly: and away gal...

... of sun peeping in from the great street round the cor- ner, and the smoky sparrows hopped over it and back again, brightening as they passed: or bath... ...ening as they passed: or bathed in it, like a stream, and became glorified sparrows, unconnected with chimneys. Leg- ends in praise of Ginger-Beer, wi... ...uilt out, and don’t shine there. There is a meagre tree outside, where the sparrows are chirping a little; and there is a blackbird in an eyelet-hole ... ... the footsteps, harassed him to death. Objects began to take a bleared and russet colour in his eyes. Dombey and Son was no more—his children no more....

...tered against the green leaves. Then the sun reappeared, the hens clucked, sparrows shook their wings in the damp thickets, and the pools of water on ... ...Her pale face framed in a borderless cap was more wrinkled than a withered russet apple. And from the sleeves of her red jacket looked out two large h...

...ay, the hylas croaking in the ponds, the elastic air, Bees, butterflies, the sparrow with its simple notes, Blue bird and darting swallow, nor forget ... ... the face all berry brown and bearded—the stout strong frame, Dress’d in its russet suit of good Scotch cloth: (Then what the told out story of those ...

...perhaps, if the weather be particularly genial, even tempts some rheumatic sparrow to chirrup in its branches. People sometimes call these dark yards ... ...nd large moustachios, who rode a-hunting in clothes of Lincoln green, with russet boots on his feet, and a bugle slung over his shoulder like the guar... ...y other gentlemen of inferior rank, in Lincoln green a little coarser, and russet boots with a little thicker soles, turned out directly: and away gal... ...rths of his nose, and sticking his arms a-kimbo, looked very fiercely at a sparrow hard by, till the bird flew away , when he put his cap in his pocke...