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Birds-Humming-Bird: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

And being fed by us you used us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird, Useth the sparrow.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. I. L. 59.

Hawk. The winds are pillow'd on the waveless deep, And from the curtain'd sky the midnight moon Looks sombred o'er the forest depths, that sleep Unstirring, while a soft, melodious tune, Nature's own voice, the lapsing stream, is heard, And ever and anon th'unseen, night-wandering bird.— MOIR — The Night Hawk.

Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 11.

Dost thou love hawking? thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark. Taming of the Shrew. Induction. Sc. 2. L. 45. I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 395.

No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protector's hawks do tower so well; They know their master loves to be aloft And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. II. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 9.

When I bestride him I soar, I am a hawk.— Shakespeare — Henry V. Act III. Sc. 7. L. 14.

The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey.— TENNYSON — The Poet's Song.

Humming-bird. And the humming-bird that hung Like a jewel up among The tilted honeysuckle horns They mesmerized and swung In the palpitating air, Drowsed with odors strange and rare, And, with whispered laughter, slipped away And left him hanging there.— S. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY — The South

Wind and the Sun. Jackdaw. The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree, - In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.— R. H. BARHAM — Ingoldsby Legends.