"Carrion crow" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and nearly spent, first made his appearance from the copse which clothed the right-hand side of the valley. His drooping brush, his soiled appearance, and jaded trot, proclaimed his fate impending; and the carrion crow, which hovered over him, already considered poor Reynard as soon to be his prey. He crossed the stream which divides the little valley, and was dragging himself up a ravine on the other side of its wild banks, when the headmost hounds, followed ...
— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... carrion crow, The old crow of Cairo; He sat in the shower, and let it flow Under his tail and over ...
— An English Grammar • W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell
... of the Thames and with the wild population both of the riverside and of the adjacent hills, will set down the carrion crow as the typical resident bird of the whole district. On the London Thames as high as Teddington it keeps mainly to the line of the river itself, on the banks of which and on the market gardens and meadows it finds abundant food, while the elms of large suburban residences ...
— The Naturalist on the Thames • C. J. Cornish
... sleet and snow, Mrs. Bloomer's all the go. Twenty tailors take the stitches, Plenty of women wear the breeches, Heigh ho, Carrion crow!" ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper
... book of fate that I should always treat this rose-coloured pastor like a carrion crow? I have done it again! And it has but brought out more of my father's marvellous kindness ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge |
