"Birdie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ready to help me, or I shall never have tea ready:" Saying it in a sharp fretful tone. Then: "No, no, Birdie, don't touch!" in quite a different tone to Minnie, who laid loving hands on a box ...
— Ester Ried • Pansy (aka. Isabella M. Alden)
... think there was some magnetic attraction in the love line between them. There may be, before hand. But let the cat once touch its sought-for, and I assure you there is no love lost. By some accident or other, the little birdie goes down ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 • Various
... birdie bye-bye goes, Quiet as mice in churches, He puts his head where nobody knows, And on one leg ...
— Rhymes Old and New • M.E.S. Wright
... "Poor birdie!" said Willie. "Did the naughty puss frighten it? Stwoke its fedders den.—Stwoke it—stwoke it," he continued, smoothing down ...
— Gutta-Percha Willie • George MacDonald
... gleefully. "I thought he only did singing calls." After a moment's thought, she went on, "Well, let's see. What about 'Birdie in the Cage'?... And 'The Gal from ...
— Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung • Victor Appleton
... would exactly suit me, so I've concluded it is best to have the matter arranged immediately. There is nothing in the way but this funeral, and that will be over to-morrow, and what do you say to Monday week, Kittie? Will that be soon enough, my birdie?" and the too confident youth drew near and reached out his arm to encircle her waist, but she was ...
— The Elm Tree Tales • F. Irene Burge Smith
... A Birdie cocked his little head, Winked his eye at me and said, "Say, are you a Pussy Willer, Or just a ...
— The Kitten's Garden of Verses • Oliver Herford
... yer see (pointing seaward)—leastwaws, naow she worn't: she were a Brazilian, aw think; an Pakeetow's Brazilian for a bloomin little perrit—awskin yr pawdn for the word. (Sentimentally) Lawk as a Hinglish lidy mawt call er little boy Birdie. ...
— Captain Brassbound's Conversion • George Bernard Shaw
... breast the bait I cut, And hung it on the bough: The breast it bled, the bait it reeked, Mine is the birdie now. ...
— The Return of the Dead - and Other Ballads • Thomas J. Wise
... that is different. How his little heart beats and flutters! I wish I had him for a pet. I would love you, little birdie, indeed I would.' ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... music?—than taking diplomas from institutes, which most certainly do not express all that young women learn in those venerable seats of learning? We will not put stays upon our pet until we are obliged to do so. Birdie shall abide in the paternal nest, and sing the old home-songs, and walk in the old home-ways, until she has a nice new nest of ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II., November, 1858., No. XIII. • Various
... with them. Here, again, worship seemed the only attitude for a human spirit, and the question was ever present, 'Lord, what is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?' I rode up and down hills laboriously in snow-drifts, getting off often to ease my faithful Birdie by walking down ice-clad slopes, stopping constantly to feast my eyes upon that changeless glory, always seeing some new ravine, with its depths of colour or miraculous brilliancy of red or phantasy of form. Then below, where the trail was ...
— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams
... Birdie M., 14 years old, we saw after some clever detective work had proved her to be the girl who in another town had repeatedly swindled shop-keepers. It seems she had been accustomed to take the train for localities where she had ...
— Pathology of Lying, Etc. • William and Mary Healy
... "Good day, Birdie," said the Cotton-carder. The Thrush was not a bit afraid, because she knew he was a kind man, who never caught little birds to put them in a cage. He liked better to hear them ...
— The Talking Thrush - and Other Tales from India • William Crooke
... wood-pile, in the barn, among the trees—and these nests they never forsook all the year round. What wonder that the cottage was called Bird House, and the dear wee girl whose home it was answered to the name of Birdie? No brothers or sisters had the innocent, blue-eyed child, and, save the birds, no little friends. But they loved her dearly, and were always near her; so she never grew lonely, but was happy and contented from morning until night. At early ...
— Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... Joukahainen Answered in the words which follow: 190 "Well I know whence comes the titmouse, That the titmouse is a birdie, And a snake the hissing viper, And the ruffe a fish in water. And I know that hard is iron, And that mud when black is bitter. Painful, too, is boiling water, And the heat of fire is hurtful, Water is the oldest medicine, Cataract's foam a magic potion; 200 The Creator's ...
— Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) - The Land of the Heroes • Anonymous
... thou hast no cause To grudge me the sight of fishbones white. Thine is the only nest now to find. Show it me, birdie; be ...
— Ionica • William Cory (AKA William Johnson)
... sitting side by side] Two gold mines side by side! What a pleasant picture it makes! [He shakes hands with ZINAIDA] Good evening, Zuzu! [Shakes hands with MARTHA] Good evening, Birdie! ...
— Ivanoff - A Play • Anton Checkov |
