"Birdie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... care nor toil; Nor weaves it painfully An everlasting nest; Through the long night on the twig it slumbers; When rises the red sun, To the voice of God listens birdie, And it ...
— Lectures on Russian Literature - Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy • Ivan Panin
... darling birdie!" she said, tenderly, stroking the beautiful head. "I'll make you some tea, which I hope will soon ...
— Minnie's Pet Parrot • Madeline Leslie
... I think so. Come, Susie, greedy as you are, you must take your part. You alone of all of us can cackle with the exact imitation of an old hen: get behind that tree at once and watch the yard. Don't forget to cackle for your life if you even see the shadow of a footfall. Nora, my pretty birdie, you must be the thrush for the nonce; here, take your post, watch the lawn and the front avenue. Now then, girls, the rest of us can see what spoils ...
— A World of Girls - The Story of a School • L. T. Meade
... excitement "Is it likely that I should do anything that would give you pain? And yet, I have but to say one word... and I 'll wager that you will be the first to open the cage and say to the bird, 'Fly, fly away, birdie, fly ...
— A Ghetto Violet - From "Christian and Leah" • Leopold Kompert
... could get The wings like a birdie, I would fly quickly To my dearest Jasiek! I would then be seated On the high enclosure: Look my ...
— The Knights of the Cross • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... Winfreda of those days Is only "pretty Birdie" now— Sickly her soul and weak her ways— And she, to whom we Saxons bow, Leaps on a bench and screams with fright If but a mouse creeps ...
— Songs and Other Verse • Eugene Field
... lassie—my bonnie, bonnie birdie!" said the tender-hearted old lady, who often treated her grand-niece as if she were a child. "If I had known sooner that poor Angus had left a daughter! ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... he told you? Senor the ranger is to be hanged at the dawn unless he finds his tongue for Governor Megales. Ho, ho! Our birdie must speak even if he doesn't sing." And with that as a parting shot the man clanged the door to after him and ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine
... a mighty rage and swore a great big oath, and said: "To-morrow, so sure as I live and eat, I'll twist that birdie's neck," and out he stamped ...
— English Fairy Tales • Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed.)
... dimmed in some intangible, elusive way. Birdie Callahan, who had worked in Ted's mother's kitchen for years, and who had gone back to her old job at the Haley House after her mistress's death, ...
— Buttered Side Down • Edna Ferber
... little voice, "I found a poor little birdie out of its nest, and I pinned it up tight in my apron pocket and carried it up the tree and put it into the nest. The father and mother bird were so worried about it. I didn't know I was going to fall, and make this boy fall too, ...
— The Boy from Hollow Hut - A Story of the Kentucky Mountains • Isla May Mullins
... cried little Fay, creeping close to him. "I dess you is pretty dood man. One time I had a birdie that die, and it was all tovered up in the dround. You don't want to be all tovered up like dat. I don't want ...
— Frank Merriwell's Bravery • Burt L. Standish
... the bird out of the cage and kisses it] Oh, my little birdie, must it die and go ...
— Plays by August Strindberg, Second series • August Strindberg |
