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Word: bird (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...secret of the "curve system" is out. It is done with a thermometer, a metronome, a piece of string with knots in it, and a tame canary-bird...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

Among the grim influences of Puritan Boston, our benevolent Goose cherished her golden eggs of fancy. "The Swan of Avon is not the only bird that has made melody for all time." If we do not fear to make this comparison, we certainly shall not shrink from placing our author beside her contemporaries in that chill time, the grave Judge Sewall, and Governor Bradstreet's uncanny sister, who is remembered unpleasantly even at this day. Beside the utterances of the Judge, which breathe the spirit of the time, the spirit of funerals and of work, the cheerful rhymes of Mother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIZABETH GOOSE. | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

...According to some of these, "Solomon Grundy" is an epitome of Shakspere's seven ages of man. Another has found a foreshadowing of homoeopathy in the story of the man who sought in brambles a cure for wounds received from brambles. But I prefer to take what the lively bird gives us in its simplicity. What a large class of our fellow-beings is represented by "Tommy Tittlemouse," who "caught fishes in other men's ditches"! Many of us go even further, and, not content with the ditch of another, we seize his hand, make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIZABETH GOOSE. | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

...sweet bird calls from the branches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD-NIGHT. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

Hushing the happy sounds of bird and of beast in the meadows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO BARBARA. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

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