Word: tomtit
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...sobriety and vigor (in verse) would make when the frail fit of love had got into him." Cibber, waiting in an adjoining room, became worried about Pope's health and the future of English poetry. He rushed through the door, "found this little hasty hero, like a terrible tomtit, pertly perching upon the mount of love" and pulled him away...
...course both houses suspended their rules, conferred official status upon the chickadee. Then it was the State's turn to have fun. The chickadee is a member of the titmouse family. Editors remembered "Little Tommy Tittlemouse" who "lived in a little house," began to refer to the "Tomtit Legislature." Clubs and societies stirred uneasily at the prospect of North Carolina's becoming known as the "tomtit State...
...Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn, last year's Schneider Cup winner, or Squadron Leader A. H. Orlebar, speed record holder, drop out of the sky ahead of the other 87 planes. Others hoped to salute Prince George's Hawk Moth, or the Prince of Wales's Tomtit, as winner of their father's trophy...
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