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Why, she had cheeks like yours, and she would run no lapwing could fly faster over corn. These are her things, you see; yes all of them. That is the sprig of sweetbrier she wore in her belt the day before the wagon knocked her down and killed her. I have never touched the things. But look here, Bébée, you are a good child and true, and like her just a little. I mean to give you her silver clasps.
Humphrey had made a fresh meal cake in the embers, and the two boy and serving-man now sat devouring birds and cake with great appetites. "Thou knowest the pigeon?" asked Humphrey. "Yea," replied Hugo. "The peewit is the size of a pigeon." "So I should guess," remarked Hugo. "There be those that call it the lapwing," pursued Humphrey. "My uncle, the prior, is of the number," smiled Hugo.
And did I that, O thou whose bounties serve thy people in lieu of rain! though my hand were white, like the first Prophet's, when, to assure the Egyptian, he drew it from his bosom, it would char blacker than dust of burned willow then, O thou, lovelier than the queen the lost lapwing reported to Solomon! though my breath were as the odor of musk, it would poison, like an exhalation from a leper's grave then, O my lords! like Karoon in his wickedness, I should hear Allah say of me, O Earth, swallow him!
So I was pondering, when I looked up, and saw Charlotte standing in the entrance between the court and garden, looking at me and smiling, as she shaded her eyes with her hand from the sun, and then she ran to me lightly as a lapwing. "They are coming down the street, looking every way for our house, your lady and her father," she said, putting the wine-cup into my hand.
The cuckoo came, and the lapwing, and so did all the other birds, too numerous to mention. There also came a very little bird that had no name at all. There was great confusion and noise. There was piping, hissing, chattering and clacking, and finally it was decided that the bird that could fly the highest should be king. The signal was given and all the birds flew in a great flock into the air.
Coventry and I an hour in the Long Gallery, talking about the management of our office, he tells me the weight of dispatch will lie chiefly on me, and told me freely his mind touching Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, the latter of whom, he most aptly said, was like a lapwing; that all he did was to keepe a flutter, to keepe others from the nest that they would find.
"Well," said Bohun, "I will represent your case to Mr. Thomas, and perhaps he will be able to make some satisfactory arrangement." In two hours afterwards the Lapwing was ready for sea, being confined to the wharf by a single fast, when Mr. Thomas came on board accompanied by Bohun. Mr. Thomas, with a dignified and patronizing air, said, "Young man, Mr.
Waugh, whose deep, mellow laugh preceded her answer, when she said: "Take heart, Lapwing! take heart, and all the happiness you can possibly get!
"Pixie," cried Bridgie wildly, "at him, Pixie! At him!" And like a flash of lightning Pixie lay prone on the floor with her arms wound tightly round Pat's legs. He swayed and staggered, clutched at the wall, and felt Mademoiselle's arms nip him from behind, as the door flew open, and Bridgie sped like a lapwing along the gallery.
I have described battles in which the opponents were only distantly related; for instance, the Moor-Hen will attack almost any bird Partridge, Lapwing, or Starling that approaches its territory even temporarily.
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