Not till then had we supposed that the songster was a bird. From Wordnik.com. [On the Banks of the Amazon] Reference
This animal is the evening and morning "songster" of the Amazon woods. From Wordnik.com. [Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure] Reference
More sweet than the songster that sings in the dale. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
This Wren has justly been called a perennial songster. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph [April, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
"A place, milady ... a place for a poor songster. ...". From Wordnik.com. [Magic's Promise]
No bird of devastating claw, but a woodland songster meek. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
I am not peculiar in my admiration of this little songster. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
But the Blue-Bird does not equal the Redbreast as a songster. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
The songster you're listenin 'to now is just a whip-poor-will. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
Tennyson is more simply the songster than any poet of our time. From Wordnik.com. [Uncollected Prose] Reference
All came but Mr Mercer, the songster, -- another disappointment!. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
No cheerful warble of a merry songster would ever greet our ears. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
Unlike other Australians, you have quite a famous songster performance. From Wordnik.com. [2007 Monash APEC Lecture] Reference
The only songster ever known to whistle popular airs to piano accompaniment. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces] Reference
Just as he was peering through the window, the ebony songster discovered him. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
The young man replied that he was the musician and songster of the night before. From Wordnik.com. [Don Quixote] Reference
Patti and a Lind rolled into one, made her the most wonderful songster of the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Mark of the Beast] Reference
Texas songster Mance Lipscomb's tune "Shke Shake, Mama" contains the following verse. From Wordnik.com. [The WELL: Turn On Your Love Light] Reference
Few individuals of our own race refuse their homage and admiration to the sweet songster. From Wordnik.com. [Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State] Reference
Hillary can't even pick a bland American songster -- she's gotta pick a dullish Canadian?. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary's Campaign Song Originally Written For...Air Canada Ad] Reference
Sofya raised her head, and looked into the blue expanse of the sky for the merry songster. From Wordnik.com. [Mother] Reference
August, when other birds have mostly become silent, he is sometimes the only songster in the wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
The gayest and brightest feathered songster craves companionship in modest and unobtrusive colors. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
A thrush sang in one of the elm trees, a brown songster carolling his vespers from a topmost branch. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
He would be infinitely more valuable as a songster, if he were incapable of imitating a single sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
Like every other songster of the feathered tribe, their age depends on how old they are when captured. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886] Reference
It is not handsome, and it is not a sweet songster, so that man is not disposed to give it much protection. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Behind the forest-leaf we suddenly discover a songster, the gleam of an oriole's breast in a bed of mantling green. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
His sister Sally is not a songster, nor is Quilp, though he quotes 'Sally in our Alley' in reference to the former. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Dickens and Music] Reference
A bird sang in the grove, tuning its lay to reproduce the notes of every songster that had warbled during the daytime. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
WASSEL, like a neat sempster and songster; her page bearing a brown bowl, drest with ribands, and rosemary, before her. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
His genius had shaped itself exactly on Béranger's, and he resented as a personal affront every insult offered to the songster. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
He is one of the most remarkable of the American birds, and is generally considered the finest songster in the New England forest. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
The brilliant songster was pouring out his heart in that fine cry of strength and hope which he sends resounding over hill and vale. From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
Going into the wood to see what strange songster this was, the sound changed to most wonderful music which compelled him to follow it. From Wordnik.com. [Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway.] Reference
October; nests in bushes; lives in gardens and woodside thickets; has a sharp cry not unlike the mewing of a cat, but is a gifted songster. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference
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