"Birdie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... care nor toil; Nor weaves it painfully An everlasting nest; Through the long night on the twig it slumbers; When rises the red sun, To the voice of God listens birdie, And it ...
— Lectures on Russian Literature - Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy • Ivan Panin
... darling birdie!" she said, tenderly, stroking the beautiful head. "I'll make you some tea, which I hope will soon ...
— Minnie's Pet Parrot • Madeline Leslie
... I think so. Come, Susie, greedy as you are, you must take your part. You alone of all of us can cackle with the exact imitation of an old hen: get behind that tree at once and watch the yard. Don't forget to cackle for your life if you even see the shadow of a footfall. Nora, my pretty birdie, you must be the thrush for the nonce; here, take your post, watch the lawn and the front avenue. Now then, girls, the rest of us can see what spoils ...
— A World of Girls - The Story of a School • L. T. Meade
... excitement "Is it likely that I should do anything that would give you pain? And yet, I have but to say one word... and I 'll wager that you will be the first to open the cage and say to the bird, 'Fly, fly away, birdie, fly ...
— A Ghetto Violet - From "Christian and Leah" • Leopold Kompert
... could get The wings like a birdie, I would fly quickly To my dearest Jasiek! I would then be seated On the high enclosure: Look my ...
— The Knights of the Cross • Henryk Sienkiewicz
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