The paroquet was a splendid creature, with a brilliant orange throat darkly spotted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the Bush] Reference

Among them we observed a pretty kind of paroquet, with a green body, a blue head, and a red breast; also a few beautiful turtle-doves, and several flocks of wood-pigeons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coral Island] Reference

Here vain tastes prevail for golden pheasant and blue and crimson paroquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference

He came to me, just now, so prim, and so pleased A parrot and paroquet The parrot is the finest talker!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference

Novae Hollandiae and the shell paroquet following the shoreline of St. Vincent's Gulf like flights of starlings in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Source Book of Australian History] Reference

Louis XIV., and as he has been fortunate enough to catch the escaped paroquet of Mme. de Maintenon, he is at last to have his wish accomplished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

The collection embraces many admirable bronzes of birds: an eagle holding a dead heron; an owl with a rat; a paroquet on a tree, and a strikingly fine composition of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890] Reference

They are women who live only for the senses, with as utter and obvious disregard of any moral or intellectual purpose to be answered in living as a paroquet or a macaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference

There were two parrots and a beautiful white paroquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl in Old New York] Reference

The Fuegian parrot, or paroquet, is known to naturalists as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure] Reference

"The moon is a quiet wife, but you chatter like a paroquet.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purple Land] Reference

A word should be added as to the distribution of the paroquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166] Reference

The others were a mocking-bird, a cardinal grosbeak, and a paroquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the Bush] Reference

Mrs. Todd kissed me on both cheeks and gave me the paroquet to carry.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Malcolm] Reference

No paroquet, no monkey, no little, silken-haired lap-dog, no St. Bernard or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Dumany's Wife] Reference

Suddenly the paroquet bent down its head and uttered a loud scream in his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coral Island] Reference

My house is full of things that make a noise -- a canary, a paroquet, a mocking-bird, a harp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudy Keeping House] Reference

Mrs. Todd with her two greatest acquisitions in bold evidence, a lorgnette and a caged paroquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Malcolm] Reference

And then, somewhere away among the cypresses the silence was broken; a paroquet began to screech.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Keeper of the Door] Reference

"Aha!" thought I. "So Tom Langdon has been fool enough to take this paroquet into his confidence.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deluge] Reference

Now it was a green paroquet, with long slender tail and head of the most delicate peach-colour or of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy] Reference

"That could be a paroquet, or a syringe (ou un serin), but this no is nothing of such, it not is but a frog.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches New and Old] Reference

As may be imagined, in these fantastic recitals, vanity reigned triumphant, the vanity of a chattering paroquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack 1877] Reference

It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

A new species of cockatoo or paroquet, being between both, was also seen, with red necks and breasts, and grey backs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales] Reference

The only species likely to be seen on the Nilgiris at elevations of 4000 feet and upwards is the blue-winged paroquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference

"The paroquet is essentially a southern bird, and though common along the Gulf, is of rare occurrence above the Ohio River.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166] Reference

The above language would seem to admit of no doubt as to the fact of the decided resemblance borne by this carving to the paroquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166] Reference

Ali next brought down a paroquet, with long delicate tail, and delicious sunset hues blushing upon its plumage of pearly grey green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middy and Ensign] Reference

His protruding eyes looked as glassy as ever, and his grey locks were ruffled at the top until he bore a ludicrous likeness to a paroquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betty Trevor] Reference

The paroquet and the thrush, the bluebird and goldfinch, fluttered among the thick foliage and trilled their melodies in sweetest cadence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described] Reference

Then a long-tailed paroquet of the most delicate green, and directly after quite a trayful of the most lovely little birds I had ever seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas] Reference