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Updated: May 12, 2025
Through life, it must be acknowledged, this brilliant creature was essentially "a mockingbird," and made game of every one till she met her mate.
Deadly moccasins and huge turtles lay listless in the sun, and hundreds of bushels of blackberries were wasting their sweetness on the desert air. Now and then there came to us like an inspiration from heaven the ecstatic music of the mockingbird, carrying shame and despair to the breasts of all the other warblers of the aerial choir.
He had come upon a low ridge of hard ground, away from the vast current and low, sodden shores of the Mississippi. Here was a clean atmosphere, and the forest, the forest everywhere. A mockingbird, perched on a bough almost over his head, began to pour forth his liquid song, and from another far away came the same song like an echo. Dick looked up but he could not see the bird among the branches.
The brown thrush, rival of the lark and mockingbird, seldom seeks the society of the blue jay. But it did this time. The Powells were a roaring, riotous, roystering, fox-hunting, genteel, but reduced family, on the eve of bankruptcy, with marriageable daughters.
"Can you!" the old man said in surprise. "What is this now?" "That is a mockingbird, the great black capped mockingbird, I think. The one next to it is a golden lory." So Frank went round all the cages and perches in the shop. "Right in every case," the old man said enthusiastically; "I shall have nothing to teach you. The sailor has been here this morning.
He was carving a pipe from the soft stone of the region, which so lends itself to the purpose, hardening when heated. "Tsida-wei-yu!" There was a long pause while the mockingbird sang with an exuberant magic which might baffle the emulation of any ada-wehi of them all.
One by one the stars in the deep-blue sky paled and went out and the blue dome changed and lightened. Night had vanished on invisible wings and silence broke to the music of a mockingbird. The rose in the east deepened; a wisp of cloud turned gold; dim distant mountains showed dark against the red; and low down in a notch a rim of fire appeared.
Harrington watched some time for them to appear again, but her curiosity was baffled, and her attention soon directed to other objects. At last she was aroused by Elsie coming suddenly upon the ledge, flushed, panting for breath and glowing with anger. She turned upon Hawkins like a spiteful mockingbird. "A pretty escort you are, Mr. Hawkins, to leave a lady all alone in the woods. I declare, Mrs.
Were we crouched by a dense yew hedge, bordering an English country lane, a nightingale might delight us, a melody of day, softened, adapted, to the night. If the air about us was heavy with the scent of orange blossoms of some covert in our own southland, the glorious harmony of a mockingbird might surge through the gloom, assuaging the ear as do the blossoms another sense.
Cotton and feathers enter largely into the composition of the lining of a Shrike's nest. In Florida the Mockingbird shows a decided preference for the withered leaves and stems of life-everlasting, better known as the plant that produces "rabbit tobacco."
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