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When they finally appeared on the dancing-ground, the singer had already gone and now, summer and winter, year in and year out, they keep their white dresses on, to be prepared, when Orpheus returns and the lute sounds again." A cross-bill was perched on a bough in a pine-wood, and the jester said that this bird was a very peculiar species.
But dates were getting a little close, for our first contingent of beeves was due on the coast on the twentieth, and to gather and drive them would require not less than ten days. A cross-bill had been filed by Oxenford's attorney at the last hour, and a fight was going to be made to prevent the decree from issuing.
The deepest recesses of the pine forests at the far North are their favorite haunts, and here the majority generally remain throughout the year. In these remote wilds is bred the fearlessness of man which is the result of ignorance, for they are among the tamest of all wild birds, finding, in this respect, their counterpart in the American red cross-bill, another occasional cold-weather visitant.
When it faded, my mother Nataline went to the window, and there on the floor, in a little red pool, she found the body of a dead cross-bill, all torn and wounded by the glass through which it had crashed. She took it up and fondled it. Then she gave a great sigh, and went to my father Marcel and kneeled beside him.
So she kneeled beside him and put one hand over his shoulder, the dead cross-bill in the other. "Marcel," she said, "thou and I love each other so much that we must always go together whether to heaven or to hell and very soon our little baby is to be born. Wilt thou keep a secret from me now?
As occasional visitors may be reckoned the wax-wing, golden oriole, cross-bill, hoopoe, white-tailed eagle, honey buzzard, ruff, puffin, great bustard, Iceland gull, glaucous gull, and Bewick's swan.
When they finally appeared on the dancing-ground, the singer had already gone and now, summer and winter, year in and year out, they keep their white dresses on, to be prepared, when Orpheus returns and the lute sounds again." A cross-bill was perched on a bough in a pine-wood, and the jester said that this bird was a very peculiar species.
When they finally appeared on the dancing-ground, the singer had already gone and now, summer and winter, year in and year out, they keep their white dresses on, to be prepared, when Orpheus returns and the lute sounds again." A cross-bill was perched on a bough in a pine-wood, and the jester said that this bird was a very peculiar species.
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