"Warbler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nest, where our Canadian Laureate, Frechette, might be tempted to pen an invitation to his brother bard of the city, LeMay, somewhat in the manner of the soft warbler of Albion towards his friend the ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine
... discover that they are really very subtly diversified and contrasted. For a case in point, take the decorously sympathetic group round the sensitive German musician, who is "veeping" over one of his own compositions. Or follow the titter running round that amused assembly to whom the tenor warbler is singing "Me-e-e-et me once again," with such passionate emphasis that the domestic cat mistakes it for a well-known area cry. As for his ladies, it may perhaps be conceded that his type is a little persistent. Still it is a type so refined, so graceful, so attractive altogether, that ...
— The Library • Andrew Lang
... to sit the whole day long Beside the window-sill, And listen to the joyous song That warbler ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... would have been the same; but it is the tone. In this case, too, the articulation gives an easier clew to the meaning the bird seeks to express, having a meaning according to the manner of pronouncing it, than any isolated, simply musical sound, like the song of the nightingale, canary bird, and warbler. This became evident to me, not from observing animals for a few moments without seeing them again, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 • Various |
