I shall begin to admit what you said of yourself when you first came here--that you are a bear, and want teaching by the birds. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests! 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
Others, again, searched the surrounding trees for fruit, nuts, small birds, and eggs. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.人猿泰山.
Some of these he has left on the Continent, but he has brought with him to this house a cockatoo, two canary-birds, and a whole family of white mice. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
In this family several hen birds unite and lay first a few eggs in one nest and then in another; and these are hatched by the males. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
And if care was not taken in the breeding, your dogs and birds would greatly deteriorate? 柏拉图.理想国.
The uprising of the star of day was hailed by triumphant strains, while the birds, heard by snatches, filled up the intervals of the music. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
I have added to my collection of birds. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
And the birds I hear! 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
All this time I stood watching the turkeys to see where they flew--with my gun on my shoulder, and never once thought of levelling it at the birds. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
The very birds of the air, as it seems to me, give the Shivering Sand a wide berth. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Mr. Tupman had saved the lives of innumerable unoffending birds by receiving a portion of the charge in his left arm. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
What, you're looking at my lodger's birds, Mr. Jarndyce? 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
I asked, whether he or the crew had seen any prodigious birds in the air, about the time he first discovered me. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
They were not unlike birds, altogether; having a sharp, brisk, sudden manner, and a little short, spruce way of adjusting themselves, like canaries. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
He had birds' eggs, young birds, and the honey and honeycomb of wild bees. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Heron has described how a pied peacock was eminently attractive to all his hen birds. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
I will consider that in meeting her to-night I have met with one of those birds whose appearance is to the sailor the harbinger of good luck. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
The period at which the perfect plumage is acquired varies, as does the state of the down with which the nestling birds are clothed when hatched. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the matured seeds disseminated. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
They killed small birds, and set spirits on fire. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
Everybody talked, not very loudly, but merrily, and the canary birds sang shrill in their high-hung cages. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
The atmosphere was grey and translucent, the birds sang sharply on the young twigs, the earth would be quickening and hastening in growth. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa have given their consent; and if ever canary birds were in a flutter, they are. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
The birds use their vocal cords to beautiful advantage in singing, far surpassing us in many ways, but the power of speech is lacking. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
They're for attracting birds. 欧内斯特·海明威.永别了,武器.
There are twenty-six land birds. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
The pair of them were like two wild birds. 欧内斯特·海明威.永别了,武器.
He was a big, fat, odd sort of elderly man, who kept birds and white mice, and spoke to them as if they were so many Christian children. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.