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A sweet, twittering song. Nests in the hollows of dead trees, usually in old Woodpeckers' holes, but occasionally in bird-boxes. Eggs pure white. A good Citizen of the United States, but more shy than the Martin and Barn Swallow; these two often return, year after year, to some favorite nesting place, but the Tree Swallow is not so reliable. A Sky Sweeper. The Bank Swallow
She was quite alone in her little castle, or rather the Liberty Realty Company's little castle. She wanted to be alone. It was very quiet. Outside the birds could be heard twittering in the vine on the ramshackle little porch. The kettle sang cheerily in the kitchen.
Added to this, the otter may be tamed and trained to bring fish out of the water, which it is very skillful in catching, for it eats scarcely any thing else." The sun was just setting, and behind us the dark outlines of the trees stood out against the orange-colored sky, while hundreds of birds were warbling and twittering around. A dark shade spread over the horizon, and all was solemn silence.
All the way home he felt in such good spirits that he sang and whistled as he walked through the wood, and never noticed how the birds were twittering and laughing at him. As soon as he saw his house he began to shout from a distance, 'Hallo! old woman! Come out and meet me! His wife screamed back: 'You come here, and I'll give you a good thrashing with the poker!
The Whitsuntide recess passed for the wanderers in Italy in a glorious prodigality of sun, a rushing of bud and leaf to "feed in air," a twittering of birds, a splendor of warm nights, which for once indorsed the traditional rhapsodies of the poets. The little party of friends which had met at Assisi moved on together to Siena and Perugia, except for Marion Vincent and Frobisher.
But in spite of these occasional interruptions in spite, also, of the continuous autumn twittering that filled the trees the chief impression somehow was one as of utter silence, inasmuch that the little greenish bell that peeped out of a window in the tower disquieted me with a sense of some possible and more inharmonious disturbance.
But after I leave, some people may arise in opposition, heaping persecutions upon you in their bitterness, and in the newspapers there may be articles published against the Cause. Rest ye in the assurance of firmness. Be well poised and serene, remembering that this is only as the harmless twittering of sparrows and that it will soon pass away.
The swallow is remarkably swift in flight; 'their note is a slight twittering, which they seldom if ever exert but upon the wing. Goldsmith's Natural History. Ed. 'Be in print'; a proverbial expression, to show order and regularity; like type in print. Ed. 'Ley'; barren or fallow, uncultivated, generally spelt lea. Ed. This riddle is solved in the fourth line following.
Who in his youth ever saw the swallow of natural history to be the twittering, joyous bird that built mud nests beneath his father's shed, and in the empty odorous barn? that snapped the insects that flew up in his way when returning at twilight from the upland farm; and that filled his memory with such visions of summer when he first caught its note on some bright May morning, flying up the southern valley?
"We are going to be married among the vines, and if such a temple is distasteful to you, sir " "Oh, not at all, Miss, I assure you." "And we are going dressed just as we are," she continued. "Oh, the dressing, Miss, makes no difference to me. Well, if everything's ready we might as well go on." Among the vines they stood. In the leaves above them the birds were twittering.
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