hedge-sparrow

Titmouse and blackcap and a hedge-sparrow or so live now alone in the bush and undergrowth: tuitui!

Pan 2003

Many birds are imposed upon, one of the commonest victims being the hedge-sparrow.

Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

Unlike most other birds, they do not pair; you all know, too, that cuckoos make no nests, but lay their eggs one by one in the nests of various other birds, such as those of the hedge-warbler, or hedge-sparrow as it is generally but wrongly called, robin, white-throat, and other birds.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

"In my time there were bigger eggs in the nest of the hedge-sparrow," said Little Fawn.

The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said Padraic Colum 1926

But when she handed him the eggs Little Fawn said "It was not the eggs of the hedge-sparrow we were wont to eat in my time."

The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said Padraic Colum 1926

"Eggs of the hedge-sparrow!" said Murrish, "I have handed you the biggest eggs laid by the best hens in the country."

The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said Padraic Colum 1926

I know an officer who was awarded the D.S. O. because he had hindered the work of war correspondents with the zeal of a hedge-sparrow in search of worms, and another who was the best-decorated man in the army because he had presided over a visitors 'chateau and entertained Royalties,

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

Mrs. Fitzgerald herself was a mild, quiet, nervous, delicate lady, as much astonished at her lively, tempestuous daughter as a meek little hedge-sparrow would be, that had hatched a young cuckoo.

The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life Angela Brazil 1907

Titmouse and blackcap and a hedge-sparrow or so live now alone in the bush and undergrowth: tuitui!

Pan Knut Hamsun 1905

Even D'Arcy is out with his men, whose father I remember a little hedge-sparrow knight nearby Caen.

Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900