In the fulness of their revelry they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush, and tree to tree, capricious from the very profusion and variety around them. There was the honest cock-robin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its... The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent - Page 260by Washington Irving - 1894Full view - About this book
| Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 pages
...field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush,...around them. There was the honest cock-robin, the favourite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note ; and the twittering blackbirds... | |
| Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...stubble field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush,...around them. There was the honest cock-robin, the favourite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note ; and the twittering blackbirds... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...stubble field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush,...around them. There was the honest cock-robin, the favourite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note ; and the twittering blackbirds... | |
| Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...stubble field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush,...tree to tree, capricious from the very profusion and variely around them. There was the honest cockrobm, the favourite game of stripling sportsmen, with... | |
| 1832 - 478 pages
...stubble field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of their revelry they fluttered, chirping and frolicking from bush to bush and tree to tree, capriCious from the very abundance around them. There was the honest cock-robin, the favourite game of stripling sportsmen,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...stubble field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush,...around them. There was the honest cock-robin, the favourite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note ; and the twittering blackbirds... | |
| Washington Irving - 1835 - 194 pages
...field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of their revelry , they fluttered , chirping and frolicking , from bush to bush , and tree to tree , capricions from the very profusion and variety aronnd them. There was the honest cock-robin , the... | |
| 1836 - 342 pages
...fullness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush, and trce to trce, capricious from the very profusion and variety around them. There was the honest cock-robin, the favourite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note ; and the twittering blackbirds... | |
| Noble Butler - 1846 - 272 pages
...while wo tasto the fragrance of the rose, Glows not her blush the fairer?" EXERCISES TO BE PASSED. There was the honest cock-robin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud, querulous note ; and [there were] the twittering blackbirds, flying in sable clouds ; and the golden-winged woodpecker,... | |
| Noble Butler - 1846 - 268 pages
...cock-robin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud, querulous note ; and [there were] the twittering blackbirds, flying in sable clouds ; and the golden-winged woodpecker, with his splendid plumage ; and the cedar-bird, with its red-tipped wings and yellow-tipped tail, and its little... | |
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