"Nest" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the right of the door, sir. The first twelve shallow shelves, counting from the top, sir. They contain a fair selection of our various cravats. Replicas in bulk are to be found in the third nest of drawers ...
— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... brethren laid a tree across a chasm, and St. Francis hid himself in a more lonely place, where no one might hear him when he cried out; and a falcon, which had its nest hard by his cell, woke him for matins, and according as he was more weary or sickly at one time than another, that feathered brother, having compassion on him, woke him later or sooner, and all the long day was at hand to give ...
— A Child's Book of Saints • William Canton
... the nest of the large red ant; these collect and glue the leaves together, forming a cavity for the deposition of their larvae. The best mode of destroying them is to hang a portion of some animal substance, such as the entrails of a fowl, fish, &c., to the end ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds
... circumstances would not be bad . . . I, too, I know a little about such things. I also have a nest belonging to me. My father was one of the ...
— Twenty-six and One and Other Stories • Maksim Gorky
... divided into two parts: one bears the name of "Kan Tsippor" ([Hebrew]), "The bird's nest," and treats of the Massorah of the Psalms, i.e., their divisions, accents, vowels, grammatical forms, and letters necessary for the preservation of the text; and the other, the name of "Gan Perakhim" ([Hebrew]), "The garden of flowers," ...
— Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I • Sir Moses Montefiore
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