On the first page there was like a photograph of a bird-nest full of eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where's the show?] Reference

Defying the conservation laws, private owners and developers make unauthorized alterations, sometimes knocking buildings down entirely, to cash in on mass tourism or alternative industries like lucrative bird-nest production.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memory Keepers] Reference

"He was watchin 'a bird-nest on the way to that school".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sonny, a Christmas Guest] Reference

Long had she lingered round a bird-nest to leave therein the gaudy wing of a butterfly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riders of the Purple Sage] Reference

But it had one feature that I have never seen attached to any bird-nest, namely, a roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Before Adam] Reference

It was more like a huge bird-nest than anything else, though it was a thousand times cruder in the weaving than any bird-nest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Before Adam] Reference

Fearful lest their ambitious palates should soar into the extravagant and bankrupting realms of bird-nest soup, shark's fins, and deer-horn jelly, I firmly resolve to dispense with their services at the first favorable opportunity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

When he was almost midway of the bridge the big wires that held it began to shriek out of the old posts that held them -- though I had not touched them -- and it seemed many years that passed while the whole of it dangled in the air like a bird-nest in a storm; and the creek down below laughed at that big coward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Port of Missing Men] Reference

'cause he was watchin 'a bird-nest on the way to that school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sonny, a Christmas Guest] Reference

"You know how it is with these desert tribes," said the stage-driver, "every camp looks as if it might have been there for a hundred years, and when they go there's no more left than a last year's bird-nest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agua Dulce] Reference

Inform him that my purse is no better lined than his own broken skull: it is void as a beggar's protestations, or a butcher's stall in Lent; light as a famished gnat, or the sighing of a new-made widower; more empty than a last year's bird-nest, than a madman's eye, or, in fine, than the friendship of a king. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages] Reference

Usually bird-nest houses are not well kept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

"A bird-nest," I said, "full of like eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where's the show?] Reference

They all have wide-open I-know-the-absolute-truth eyes and smeary smile, with bird-nest hair, in tight-fit suits ... typical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prominent McCain Supporter: I'm "Absolutely" Concerned That Obama Is Anti-American] Reference