Crovax gave the percher a little shake, and it spoke again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nemesis]

Out came a percher, its legs and wings tied with strips of ribbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nemesis]

Tharvello opened his hauberk and pulled out the percher he'd hidden underneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nemesis]

After much shouting and dashing about, a percher appeared, flapping its narrow wings and blaring the message given to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nemesis]

La dsertification, l'amincissement de la couche d'ozone, la destruction de la fores tropicale, les effets pernicieux des pluies acides, autant de problmes criants sur lesquels l'humanit doit se percher avant d'arriver a un stade de dtrioration environnementale de non retour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 1] Reference

Them's not legs! them's slips of gutta-percher an 'steel!.    From Wordnik.com.  [M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."] Reference

However, she soon gave over these attempts at intimidation, perched beside the percher, and again put something into his maw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foot-path Way] Reference

The relatively short toe claws suggest that Aberratiodontus was not a habitual percher, and the proportions of its hindlimbs and its relatively long neck suggest that it was a terrestrial forager.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Then, there is the little brown creeper which never perches and is forever creeping, creeping, upward, upward -- save, of course, when it takes to wing -- and yet its toes are arranged in the normal percher style, the hind digit having an especially long, curved claw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

I'll give you a token that'll get you through the other stations, and I'll send a percher to Lord Greven with the news. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nemesis]

Another mode of making a springe, which is a capital plan for catching almost any bird, whether it be a percher or a runner, is this: Procure an elastic wand (hazel or osier makes the best) of about 3 ft. 6 in. long, to the top of which tie a piece of twisted horsehair about 3 in. in length; to the free end attach a little piece of wood of 2 in. in length, by the middle, cutting one end to an obtuse point, flattened on the top and underneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

He flung the percher into the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nemesis]

A percher landed on Greven's shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nemesis]

Each orderly had a percher on his shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nemesis]

Nasser sent a percher ahead with this news.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nemesis]

Allhallowentyde till Estyr, one tortays, one percher, ii candelles wax, ii candelles Paris, ii talwood, ii faggotts,’ and rushes, litter, all the year; which the Esquiers have too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early English Meals and Manners] Reference

Though a percher by day, roosts on the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference

A percher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Elementary Science Readers Book I] Reference

"You chatter like a percher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nemesis]

I dare be known to set before the best: a certain low-browed, hairy gentleman, at first a percher in the fork of trees, next (as they relate) a dweller in caves, and whom I think I see squatting in cave-mouths, of a pleasant afternoon, to munch his berries -- his wife, that accomplished lady, squatting by his side: his name I never heard, but he is often described as Probably Arboreal, which may serve for recognition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson] Reference