Buntings' kin

Usage examples of sparrows.

Behind my back: sparrows, varicolored flies, climbing sun, and the kennel.

Now it is curious that the sparrows and blackbirds, yellowhammers and greenfinches, that roost in the bushes, fly into the net and are easily captured, but the starlings--thanks to their different ways in daylight--always fly out at the top of the bush, and so escape.

To-day the sparrows are just as busy as ever of old, chatter, chirp around the old barn, while the threshing machine hums, and every now and then lowers its voice in a long-drawn descending groan of seemingly deep agony.

They felt themselves so important, and were so full, and so intense and one-minded in their labour, that the great of the earth might come and go as sparrows for aught they cared.

And five hundred birds, not counting sparrows, fled in mass between the sun and the christening party.

Did the cloud of five hundred birds and uncounted sparrows disperse immediately after the hasty and not at all festive departure of the carriages?

As he dines, walks, slumbers, breathes, or holds his breath, as the morning shift is lowered, the night shift raised, and sparrows inaugurate the day, it grows.

No cow dung or horse droppings, but several bevies of sparrows, which kept regrouping and raised their hubbub to the third power when Amsel alit from the bus.

The stones fall: petrified sparrows, and no one, not even Eduard Amsel, could devise any kind of scarestone.

They failed to understand, or else -- like sparrows in this respect -- they were so conscious of their numbers that there was never any possibility of a frog panic in the swimming pool.

Just about anybody can distinguish sparrows from swallows, an owl from a woodpecker.

What no bird expert can do, Amsel could: he was able to distinguish as individuals the members of a crowd bevy congress of sparrows, whom everybody believes to be equally colorless.

He thought of the sparrows, and he wondered if they were being pursued.

I am speaking to you a sparrow has come to tell to other sparrows that a slave has dropped on the floor a sack of corn, and they all go there to feed upon the grain.

Only the ragged patchwork humps of their jackets and the cheerful sparrows on their blue head towels were visible.