"Redbird" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... spending a spring week-end with a friend who lives in the country, I chanced to see a brilliant scarlet bird which neither my hostess nor I could identify. "It was a redbird, I suppose," I said, in mentioning it later ...
— The American Child • Elizabeth McCracken
... disappeared, a redbird in its gorgeous uniform flitted dipping across the road, and, taking his place in a bush, began to ...
— Gordon Keith • Thomas Nelson Page
... ague-stricken and homesick, I made place for a few apples and peaches, with a ripe melon. For Pete and I had been chums in Rochester and I had bunked in his attic on Galusha Street, for two years. Also, his babies thought as much of me as of their father. The trip to Saginaw was easy and pleasant. A "Redbird" packet to Buffalo, the old propeller Globe to Lower Saginaw and a ride of half a day on a buckboard, brought me to Pete Williams' clearing. Were they glad to see me? Well, I think so. Pete and his wife cried like children, while the two little homesick ...
— Woodcraft • George W. Sears
... pet goat, but I sold it, and now I have a very handsome redbird that my grandpa gave me. Its name is Bob. Papa made me a martin box last spring, but the bluebirds took possession of it. The English sparrows come on our porch, and eat the wheat Bob ...
— Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various |
