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Updated: May 19, 2025
Though I have written my little book in the interests of folk-lore, I hope it will gain the attention of, and have some interest for, children of Australian children, because they will find stories of old friends among the Bush birds; and of English children, because I hope that they will be glad to make new friends, and so establish a free trade between the Australian and English nurseries wingless, and laughing birds, in exchange for fairy godmothers, and princes in disguise.
The gigantic, wingless Moas allied to the ostrich and the cassawary had grown up there, and were the masters of the situation. There were many species of these one of great height one fourth taller than the biggest known ostrich; others with short legs of monstrous thickness and strength. Allied to these are the four species of Kiwi or apteryx, still existing there.
He took Gilbert an evening paper, and then subsided into a pensive silence until the fowl appeared in an agreeable frizzling state, fresh from the gridiron, but a bird of some experience notwithstanding, and wingless. It was a very hasty meal.
I sent him forward with my godlike company, and commanded Piraeus to lead him home, and to take heed to treat him lovingly and with worship till I should come. Thus he spake, and wingless her speech remained. And she washed her in water, and took to her fresh raiment, and vowed to all the gods an acceptable sacrifice of hecatombs, if haply Zeus might grant that deeds of requital should be made.
Furious card-playing, gourmandising, drinking, endless conversations about the same things, futile activities and conversations taking up the best part of the day and all the best of a man's forces, leaving only a stunted, wingless life, just rubbish; and to go away and escape was impossible one might as well be in a lunatic asylum or in prison with hard labour.
And then the world we shorten with our feet That wake no echoes, but the hornèd owl Sigheth to think that thus our wingless speed All but outdoes that of the tree-dwellers. When she had finished she threw herself down at his feet, asking: "Dost thou like my song, my brother?" "Yes, it is a new song, Matoaka, and some day thou must sing it for our father.
The different orders of insects in Madeira apparently present analogous facts. Oceanic islands are sometimes deficient in certain classes, and their places are apparently occupied by the other inhabitants; in the Galapagos Islands reptiles, and in New Zealand gigantic wingless birds, take the place of mammals. In the plants of the Galapagos Islands, Dr.
I picked up the little wingless cherubs, scarcely bigger than my fist, and their blue eyes smiled at me, as if they had really enjoyed their aerial flight. They seemed to have a charmed and charming existence; they were the admiration of all the people far and wide who flocked to our house to see and fondle the really "heavenly twins."
Burnt his hands, but said nothing ... flicked the wingless, blackened body to the floor.... "But the baby? it lived?" "Yes, it lived ... a girl ... if it hadn't of lived ... if it had gone, too, I wouldn't of wanted to live, either!..." "That's why I'm workin' so hard, these days, with no lay-offs fer huntin' or fishin' or anything."
Chester found the bed conducive to dreams, in which he was happy beyond the happiness of duke or king, dreams of Blennerhassett's island in May, and of wandering with a wingless Yankee angel in that earthly Paradise. Next morning, in payment for lodging and breakfast, he offered a silver dollar. "That's too much," said Chin. "Here, Joel, chop this coin. I must give you the change in sharp-shanks.
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