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The captain's eyes surveyed the motley collection down the length of the bright table, then returned to her, gratefully: "This ain't anything. Only a little bloomin' " "Impromptu," suggested Heywood. "That's the word!" Captain Kneebone eyed them both with uncommon favor. "That's it, ye know. I just 'opped about Saigong like a jackdaw, picking up these impromptus.
It just breaks me all up to think you may have lost my steamer Narcissus the first steamer I ever owned too and to be lost on her second voyage under the Blue Star flag " "Our Narcissus, if you please," Cappy shrilled. "You gibbering jackdaw! Out with it! Where do you get that stuff lose your steamer on her second voyage! Why, she's snug in Norfolk this minute."
The juniors will plump for the girl they like best, without caring whether she knows anything about games or not. There's Aubrey Simpson!" "Oh! They can't choose 'the jackdaw'!" interrupted Merle. "They can choose her if they like. She's over fifteen and perfectly eligible. Edith Carey is rather a favourite, I believe." "That silly goose! Good-night!" "Well, there's Muriel Burnitt at any rate.
Besides the common brown eagle, three kinds of vulture, several species of falcons, hawks, and owls, the raven family appears to be fully represented, with the exception of the jackdaw, which possibly finds itself too weak and too slow of flight to live in the midst of such strong and ferocious air-robbers as those which have established themselves in these grand solitudes.
His birds also, a jackdaw and an owl, who had the run of the studio, tolerated her as they tolerated no other female, save the housekeeper. The jackdaw would perch on her and peck her dress; but the owl merely engaged her in combats of mesmeric gazing, which never ended in victory for either.
You saw little Kiomi curled up under the hop and briony? 'I took her for a dead jackdaw. 'I took her for what she is, and she may slap, scream, tear, and bite, I 'll take her yet-and all her tribe crying thief, by way of a diversion. She and I are footed a pair. His impetuosity surpassed mine so much that I fell to brooding on the superior image of my charmer.
As we drove from the hotel to the railway the jackdaws, perched everywhere on the roofs, were unusually noisy. Leaving Asia and entering Europe, the magpie seemed to give place to the jackdaw. The latter bird inhabits the towns and cities east of the Ural mountains, and we frequently saw large flocks searching the debris along the Volga road.
Wilfrid, however, knew well who had sung those three bars, concerning which the 'Prima donna' questioned Mr. Pericles, and would not be put off by hearing that it was a startled jackdaw, or an owl, and an ole nightingale. The Greek rubbed his hands. "Now to recommence," he said; "and we shall not notice a jackdaw again." His eye went sideways watchfully at Wilfrid. "You like zat piece of opera?"
On the opposite bank stood the great rocks which have caused this part of the river to be called the Gorge of Hell. Here human beings in perpetual terror of their own kind cut themselves holes in the face of the precipice, and lived where now the jackdaw, the hawk, the owl, and the bat are the only inhabitants.
Both flowers and birds are gorgeously colored. One variety, about half the size of the jackdaw which infests the houses of Tashkend and Samarkand, has a bright blue body and red wings; another, resembling our field-lark in size and habits, combines a pink breast with black head and wings. But already this springtide splendor was beginning to disappear beneath the glare of approaching summer.
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