Where friends notice a solitary hummingbird pricking the salvia flowers, I recall a season's worth of hummingbird battles. From LearnThat.org. [Janice Emily Bowers]
Up here they call the hummingbird a "oiseau-mouche" or bird-fly. From Wordnik.com. [DesignerBlog] Reference
Kind of reminds me now of the stuff I put in hummingbird feeders. From Wordnik.com. [Back Home on the Range] Reference
The new hummingbird is broader, his breast a lighter shade of red. From Wordnik.com. [El colibri] Reference
I think Kristin's image of a hummingbird is "le mot juste" for Newforest!!. From Wordnik.com. [le mot juste - French Word-A-Day] Reference
As I type, a hummingbird is feasting at the honeysuckle outside my window. From Wordnik.com. [entretenir de grands espoirs - French Word-A-Day] Reference
As to humankind's technology: A hummingbird is about a billion times more impressive than the Space Shuttle. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Scenes from Wallingford] Reference
I was saying to her husband that a hummingbird was a very small thing to ask him to stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Strong Hearts] Reference
But it also has an unintentional double meaning as the hummingbird is a popular Martinique symbol. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com -] Reference
Think of them as Asia's answer to the hummingbird which is not found outside of the Americas. From Wordnik.com. [Distractions and writing] Reference
The hummingbird is a symbol of joy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
The hummingbird was the highlight of my morning. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Sunday Talking Head Thread] Reference
The recipe is called hummingbird cake. From Wordnik.com. [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed]
"Get to the point, hummingbird," the hawk snapped. From Wordnik.com. [Yon Ill Wind]
Right now, I couldn't buy spats for a hummingbird. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2005] Reference
Right now I couldn ` t buy scraps for a hummingbird. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2005] Reference
Shastern held out a coin stamped with a hummingbird. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
In Houston, for example, put in Texas hummingbird sage. From Wordnik.com. [Environment: For a Greener Garden] Reference
One day a hummingbird came to the people in the fields. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts]
From your garden you can see a hummingbird and a coyote. From Wordnik.com. [Echo Park] Reference
"None, hummingbird!" the boy's voice replied from midair. From Wordnik.com. [Stork Naked]
A dead hummingbird will bring her luck, bring her love. From Wordnik.com. [Love Poem with Eyebrow] Reference
I had forgotten to take the hummingbird feeder in at night. From Wordnik.com. [Ed and Deb Shapiro: Dealing With a Bear in Your House] Reference
Well, it ` s hummingbird disease, but that ` s what I have. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2006] Reference
Metria put out her hand, and the roc became the hummingbird. From Wordnik.com. [Roc and a Hard Place]
A hummingbird hung near the purple bougainvillea at the garage. From Wordnik.com. [State of fear]
The most brilliant of them all was the ruby-crested hummingbird. From Wordnik.com. [An American Robinson Crusoe] Reference
We know it when a hummingbird comes to drink the nectar of bee balm. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Spiritual Solutions #2: Find Your True Being, A True Way of Living] Reference
Her heart was beating as though it were powered by hummingbird wings. From Wordnik.com. [Manner of Death]
Its wee mouth gaped, emitting an odd, churring sound, like a hummingbird. From Wordnik.com. [Delivery] Reference
"There's a hummingbird feeder hanging on that pine beyond the pool," she said. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Dread]
I spy, through frosted windows, our hummingbird feeder dangling from its hook. From Wordnik.com. [Trimming the Tree with Isabella, Two] Reference
Then he became the hummingbird, and she took him and popped back to Castle Roogna. From Wordnik.com. [Roc and a Hard Place]
Probably she'd end up trying to murder the entire hummingbird population of Palo Alto. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Dread]
Instead I came face to face with the hummingbird earrings of a woman of at least sixty. From Wordnik.com. [The Birdcage] Reference
The music director is the famed Penny Schultz, an angel with the deftness of a hummingbird. From Wordnik.com. [July 4, 2007] Reference
I would lovingly tend moms roses and her grand front yard butterfly and hummingbird garden. From Wordnik.com. [madrigle Diary Entry] Reference
I do not see it coming, the sap that sings like a hummingbird and whacks me on my left temple. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts]
It was all my doing of course, as I should never have left the hummingbird feeder out at night. From Wordnik.com. [Ed and Deb Shapiro: Dealing With a Bear in Your House] Reference
Social media, with their hummingbird metabolisms, "keep you from being too precious about things.". From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
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