Are you so weak in natural history or have you forgotten that the jackdaw is a most respectable family bird!. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers and Sons] Reference
Are you so weak in natural history, or have you forgotten that the jackdaw is a most respectable family bird?. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXVI] Reference
It proved to be a kind of jackdaw, of huge stature, which scuttled out of the opening, and disappeared into the summit of Will Tree. From Wordnik.com. [Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery] Reference
He's as old as the hills, but as cute as a jackdaw!. From Wordnik.com. [Five On Finniston Farm]
The birds themselves are nearly as large as a jackdaw. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference
Julian felt flattered - until the jackdaw pecked his ear!. From Wordnik.com. [Five On Finniston Farm]
Harriet caught the jackdaw easily, for he still could not fly. From Wordnik.com. [Five On Finniston Farm]
So off they all went, Timmy, Snippet and Nosey the jackdaw too. From Wordnik.com. [Five On Finniston Farm]
You can see part of an upstairs room there, by the jackdaw tower. From Wordnik.com. [Five On A Treasure Island]
Our jackdaw friend, for economic reasons, had found a lodging elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
He had thought it not unlikely that a raven, or a crow, or a jackdaw, or. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian] Reference
Picture a jackdaw-faced TV presenter - stamping on a human face - forever. From Wordnik.com. [stamping on a human face - forever] Reference
Nosey the jackdaw was there too, but he wasn't nearly so popular as Snippet!. From Wordnik.com. [Five On Finniston Farm]
He meant to catch that exasperating jackdaw if it was the last thing he did!. From Wordnik.com. [Five On Finniston Farm]
I should almost like to be a jackdaw myself, for the sake of living up there. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
A jackdaw performs a rollicking tightrope walk along the ridge tiles opposite. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Bedfordshire] Reference
I say - isn't that poodle an amusing little fellow - look at him stalking that jackdaw!. From Wordnik.com. [Five On Finniston Farm]
"The boots like your sweetness," said the grammer, and both she and the jackdaw giggled. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
The jackdaw flew down to Harry's shoulder, chacking loudly, bored with all this walking!. From Wordnik.com. [Five On Finniston Farm]
Snippet joined in, and the jackdaw danced up and down on Harry's shoulder, chacking hoarsely. From Wordnik.com. [Five On Finniston Farm]
He had caught sight of Snippet sniffing behind the sacks, still hunting for the cheeky jackdaw. From Wordnik.com. [Five On Finniston Farm]
At the very moment when I got my first jackdaw, Bernhard Hellmann gave me Oskar Heinroth's book. From Wordnik.com. [Konrad Lorenz - Autobiography] Reference
A jackdaw flapped down and perched upon his shoulder, gazing at young Jacko with flat black eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Soon after the kittens were born, some of the railwaymen found a young jackdaw, and put it with them. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Um — tell her that you saw the jackdaw carrying it off and you threw stones at the nest until it came down. From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
Right willingly does Evelyn devote himself to the task of stripping the borrowed feathers from this fine jackdaw. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
After a full meal many of the crow tribe, including the raven, rook, and jackdaw, will put away and hoard what is left. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Spur of the Moment puts on stage the jackdaw chatter, the fluffy vulnerability and the vulture behaviour of pre-teen chicks. From Wordnik.com. [Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie] Reference
We are considerably out of pocket over this bally pressman johnny, this jackdaw of Rheims, who has not even been to a university. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
He will forget anything but some green roof that has flashed past him on the road, or a jackdaw on a cross — that he will remember. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
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