Shot an unfledged arrow. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A small unfledged sparrow on the window sill. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But no, I have no more sense than an unfledged eyas. From Wordnik.com. [The Eagle And The Nightingale]
"Perhaps this is a place for the innocent, unfledged mind.". From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
But my unfledged children are incapable of effecting their escape. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
That unfledged boys, and among them their own little smooth-cheeked. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
The yearnings which I used to have towards it in those unfledged years!. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
And he did this, desiring to put in a word for his unfledged offspring. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
They were then unfledged and of tender years, but thou couldst not injure them then. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
“Only to-day the prince told me that you have a special fancy for unfledged girls.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
If the season starts too early the birds are still unfledged and considered too small to hunt. From Wordnik.com. [Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Fennoscandian North] Reference
Such are the fantasies, the caprices of that most fantastic of things -- the the unfledged mind. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
A public reprimand for his smart irreverence was the only answer vouchsafed the unfledged Doctor. From Wordnik.com. [The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons] Reference
The home, not the club, was its center; the family, not each "new-hatched, unfledged comrade," its unit. From Wordnik.com. [Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session] Reference
But our unfledged M. D.'s disregarded the above salutary maxim, and made up in loudness what they wanted in learning. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827] Reference
I gape like an unfledged kite in its nest, wanting to swallow a chicken, bobbed at its mouth by its marauding dam! —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
SETH MYERS, "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE": Even if you won every remaining unfledged delegate, you'd still fall 200 delegates short. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2008] Reference
The produce of this “harvest”, as they call it, which was presented to me, was a hundred and seventy-five unfledged birds. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
That would have to be everyone, as he had too few seasoned warriors among the bandits and unfledged recruits to divide his forces. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Mists of Door]
James, was witness to the cruel and ignominious treatment showed to one of his brethren, to a rational, two-footed, unfledged being. From Wordnik.com. [Candide] Reference
While he, the aged sire, like mother-bird wailing her unfledged brood, comes hasting hither with halting steps on his bitter journey. From Wordnik.com. [Heracles] Reference
Both were equally sympathetic, and pitied the little unfledged creature, who was by some accident left motherless in his early youth. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
And according to this new clarification, 927 Fifth could take down the nest as long as there were no eggs or unfledged baby hawks in it. From Wordnik.com. [Ruffled Feathers on Fifth Avenue] Reference
"What can he do?" asked another, an unfledged Member who was not as yet quite settled as to the leadership under which he intended to work. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
They cry, they scream, their unfledged brood a prey. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
And it will not be on unfledged bantlings like you. From Wordnik.com. [The House of the Wolf; a romance] Reference
And Hareton has been cast out like an unfledged dunnock!. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
He has no eyebrows -- a little unfledged slippery horror. From Wordnik.com. [Love Me Little, Love Me Long] Reference
With bird nicknames may be mentioned Callow, unfledged, cognate with. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
Delecresse felt himself an unfledged cherub by the side of Sir Piers. From Wordnik.com. [Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century] Reference
His heart was full of enterprise and the unfledged valour of inexperience. From Wordnik.com. [Godolphin, Complete] Reference
The yearnings which I used to have towards it in those unfledged years!. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference
Two young birds, still unfledged, and scarcely as big as nuts, opened their beaks as if to ask for food. From Wordnik.com. [Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English] Reference
Diogenes Laertius reports the story of Socrates having dreamed he found an unfledged cygnet on his knee. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
Not so the barbets; they call all the year round; even unfledged nestlings raise up the voices of infantile squeakiness. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference
We shall soon see that one of his earliest productions was more serious than what comes from the generality of unfledged poets. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference
This not unusual phenomenon impressed its vivid seal upon the plastic wax of his unfledged memories with extraordinary precision. From Wordnik.com. [Terribly Intimate Portraits] Reference
Then I went to the sea shore, to look after birds 'nests, and saw the unfledged nestlings opening their mouths and screaming for food. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference
For unfledged birds, which are capable of nothing whatever but clamouring for food, are as useless little creatures as can be imagined. From Wordnik.com. [The Crofton Boys] Reference
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