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Updated: June 6, 2025
"I believe, Doctor," said the dean, interrupting in an undertone, "that you cannot impose a penalty in this matter." "Ay, but I can. 'Singing-birds, says the statute, 'are forbidden within the wall." "And then, ye dazzled my eyes at Commons with a bit of looking-glass, on Friday. I saw you. May the devil! ahem!
But still the air was hot and sultry, and no cool breath blew upon him; and if he looked off for a moment from his book, the fair form of the tempter stood again beside him in silver light; the cold water sparkled close to his lips; and trees with shady boughs waving backward and forward over fresh green grass, and full, in every spray, of singing-birds, seemed to spring up around him.
"Karkapaha is a thief," said the White Crane. "It is the father of Tatokah that says it," answered the lover, "else would Karkapaha say it was the song of a bird that has flown over." "My warriors say it." "Your warriors are singing-birds; they are wrens. Karkapaha says they do not speak the truth. Karkapaha has a brave heart and the strength of a bear. Let the braves try him.
The forests of Kamtschatka are not enlivened by singing-birds; indeed land-birds are all scarce; but there are infinite numbers of waterfowl of many species. Immense flocks of them are to be seen upon the lakes, rivers, morasses, and even the sea itself, in the vicinity of the shore. Fish is abundant, especially in the months of June and July.
Almond-scented linnea formed a garland around her feet, and the joyous singing-birds ascended from the valley.
It is a wonder that in these days of refined civilization, when Jenny Lind, Grisi, Patti, and other celebrated European singers, some of them from very warm climates, are transported to America to delight our Upper-Tendom, that there should be no persistent and successful effort to introduce the English lark into our out-door orchestra of singing-birds.
We may safely lay down this doctrine, a very old and much-thumbed doctrine, but none the less true for all its dog-ears: No man lives for himself alone. He is related not only to the silent stars and the singing-birds and the sunny landscape, but to every other human soul. You say, This should not be stated so sermonically, but symbolically.
He was one of the most amiable men I ever met with, and quite won my heart one day at table when they were talking of the number of singing-birds that were eaten in Italy nightingales, goldfinches, and robins he called out, "What! robins! our household birds! I would as soon eat a child!"
The woods are all alive to one who walks through them with his mind in an excited state, and his eyes and ears wide open. It was now the season of singing-birds, and the woods were haunted with mysterious, tender music.
And now the month of April was nearly over, and the primroses were glintin' on the braes. One evening she went out bare-headed to look how a certain den, wont to be haunted by wild-flowers and singing-birds, was getting on towards its complement of summer pleasures. As she was climbing over a fence, a horseman came round the corner of the road.
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