Funny one hardly hears a dicky-bird from the Orient on the matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I don't understand, all I see for cake no.4 is a little dicky-bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easter Indiscretions] Reference

"It isn't 'measly' and it isn't a 'dicky-bird!'" she answered indignantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half A Chance] Reference

"Do ye mean," he observed, "you come back here for that measly dicky-bird?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Half A Chance] Reference

I shall say that the writer may have mastered the dicky-bird language on the flints that they call.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference

"Here's an old sourdough like me hittin 'the trail with a broom in one fist and -- by he -- hen, a dicky-bird in the other!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

I am a man of strict business habits, and some powers of observation; my little squirrel's assurances that there is nothing in the box, combined with her obvious anxiety that I should not go and see for myself, satisfy me that it is indeed empty, in spite of the fact that I have not invariably found her a strictly truthful little dicky-bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891] Reference

But all I can do is warble like a darn 'dicky-bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference

Ain't got no more sense for this life than a dicky-bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Lights] Reference

"Get down here and keep an eye on this dicky-bird," he ordered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price] Reference

It's the humour of tom-cats playin 'with a-- a dashed little silly dicky-bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dop Doctor] Reference

"What is it, a Boche dicky-bird insulting you?" asked Gary, in his Yankee drawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarians] Reference

The hymns proved to be nursery rhymes of salvation set to what may be described as lightly spinning dicky-bird music.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Circuit Rider's Wife] Reference

As the days grew short and bleak, she found herself thinking more and more of the happy-hearted, symbolic dicky-bird on a faraway window ledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hollow of Her Hand] Reference

I shall say that the writer may have mastered the dicky-bird language on the flints that they call 'obelisks' out there in Egypt, but he cannot write in his own, as I will prove to him in a column and a half.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Illusions] Reference

A symbolic dicky-bird, much to Mr. Carroll's wonder and perplexity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hollow of Her Hand] Reference

There’s a part going begging in the new season’s repertoire, and a tiny little dicky-bird told me you just might want it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thorn Birds]

Four pack-mules carried our luggage, four more bore our persons; an arctic dicky-bird sat on a bowlder and said, "Pilly-willy-willy!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Police!!!] Reference

"I tell you I do the things which I do, as easily, as naturally, as happily as any fool of a dicky-bird does his infernal twittering on an.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Law] Reference

And what about this here fifty-pound dicky-bird you've been after? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story] Reference

'It is for the dicky-bird at my aunt's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1] Reference

"The dicky-bird!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Half A Chance] Reference

"Ef it ain't the dicky-bird!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Half A Chance] Reference

Archbishop and a ruddy dicky-bird? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rough Road] Reference

"Oh, did you see that dear little dicky-bird?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rubadub Mystery]

Said Spriggs -- "in four shots -- ve've killed a pig -- knocked the life out o 'one dicky-bird -- and put a whole charge into a calf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches — Volume 01] Reference