 | Washington Irving - England - 1822 - 490 pages
...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...There was the honest cock-robin, the favourite game of strippling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds;... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 416 pages
...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...There was the honest cock-robin, the favourite game of strippling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note ; and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...to tree, capricious from the very profusion and variely around them. There was the honest cockrobm, the favourite game of stripling sportsmen, with its...broad black gorget, and splendid plumage ; and the cedar-bird, with its red-tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail, and its little monteiro cap of feathers ;... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1831 - 518 pages
...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...broad black gorget, and splendid plumage ; and the cedar-bird, with its red-tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail, and its little monteiro cap of feathers ;... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...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...twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds ; and the golden- winged woodpecker, with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage ; and... | |
 | Washington Irving - Americans - 1843 - 458 pages
...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...broad black gorget, and splendid plumage; and the cedar-bird, with its red-tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail, and its little monteiro cap of feathers;... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - 390 pages
...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...twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds; and the golden- winged woodpecker, with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget , and splendid plumage; and... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1848 - 550 pages
...capricious from the very profusion and variety around them. There was the honest cockrobin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous...sable clouds ; and the golden-winged woodpecker, with liis crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage ; and the cedar bird, with its red-tipt... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1848 - 518 pages
...fullness 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 cockrobin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note ; and the twittering blackbirds... | |
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There was the honest cock-robin, the favourite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds; and the golden-winged woodpecker, with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid... 
