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  • Peacocks flashed in and out at every turn (they are considered a sacred bird and are therefore protected), while blue-breasted pigeons came in clouds whenever there was a prospect of a feast.

    Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

  • Here lives the blue-breasted _hermit bird_ in unmolested solitude; and, careless of solitude, the _Passer solitarius_ utters her small twitter in the hollows -- a few goats browse amongst the scanty thistles, and one or two dogs protect them.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various

  • ON the bird of air blue-breasted glint the rays of gold,

    The Robing of the King A. E. 1913

  • On the bird of air blue-breasted glint the rays of gold,

    AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901

  • There was no one to notice her going; she was as free to go and come as the wild canaries that hopped upon the budding bramble vines growing upon the railway embankment, or the blue-breasted swallows that sat on the telegraph wire.

    A Dozen Ways Of Love Lily Dougall 1890

  • "No; only a hawk making a dash at one of those blue-breasted birds; but it set me thinking of arrows flying, and using one's rifle too."

    The Peril Finders George Manville Fenn 1870

  • The robin is only one of the far greater multitude of small birds which live almost indiscriminately on grain or insects, and which I recommended you to call generally "sparrows"; but of the robin itself, there are two important European varieties -- one red-breasted, and the other blue-breasted.

    Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

  • So the blue-breasted P4 isn't an Asimo that will be; it's an Asimo that almost was.

    Gizmodo Adam Frucci 2010

  • A blue-breasted toucan watches a little pixie girl pose happily while spoon-feeding herself artificially scented, sweetened, and flavored morsels quickly getting soggy in pasteurized, homogenized whole milk.

    Losanjealous 2009

  • A blue-breasted toucan watches a little pixie girl pose happily while spoon-feeding herself artificially scented, sweetened, and flavored morsels quickly getting soggy in pasteurized, homogenized whole milk.

    Losanjealous 2009

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