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The best of ~censored~ sparrer | Happy Share S!A!O at 3:51 PM 2009

Same as a sparrer hawk watches a mouse, just afore she stoops.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

Says she, 'I never hear a sparrer chirpin' and a kittle b'ilin ', that I don't think o' the dinner Mary Andrews had the day Judge McGowan spoke at the big barbecue. '

Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

He _would_ go on the ice just below the locks, when it would hardly bear a sparrer, let alone a drunk Robin, and he naturally goes under before he'd gone a dozen yards.

Acton's Feud A Public School Story Frederick Swainson

Atter dat Tenie sot a sparrer-hawk fer ter watch de tree; en w'en de woodpecker come erlong nex 'mawnin' fer ter finish his nes ', he got gobble' up mos 'fo' he stuck his bill in de bark.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

I was makin 'her a cup o' tea one day, and the kittle was bubblin 'and singin', and she begun to laugh, and says she, 'Jane, do you hear that sparrer chirpin' in the peach tree there by the window? '

Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

What a spry little thing you was, a-hoppin 'about among the mahogany and walnut stuff like a young sparrer!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

'E was weak as a kid and chirpy as a sparrer, and only cursin' becos 'e was out of things for the rest of the war.

Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France Vernon Bartlett 1938

As for Tony, he was more a fighter than a sparrer.

The Pothunters 1928

Ye see, sir, though doleful, Mr. Bimby's very kind 'earted, and' e's always a-nussing somebody or something -- last time it were a dog with a broke leg -- ah, I've knowed 'im bring' ome stray cats afore now, many's the time, and once a sparrer.

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915