wood-bird

Polly had, and often felt like a little wood-bird shut up in a gilded cage.

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

When Siegfried returns with ring and helmet, he is again warned by the voice of a wood-bird, not to trust in Mime.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

Then the wood-bird began to sing a pretty love-song of a maiden sleeping on the crest of a mountain, encircled by fire.

Opera Stories from Wagner Florence Akin

It is in a soothing melancholy one may hear the tide lapping on the rocks below and the wood-bird call in the trees above.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

To Guarino the pathetic appealed more nearly; to him she seemed a pretty nun, a wood-bird caged.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

-- Stretching himself under the linden-tree to repose after that day's hard work, he again hears the voice of the wood-bird, which tells him of a glorious bride, sleeping on a rock surrounded by fire; and flying before him, the bird shows Siegfried the way to the spot.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

"Those of us who are left in town in the dull days will seem, in reading these pages, to sniff the fresh sea-breezes, to hear the cries of the sea-bird and the songs of the wood-bird, to be conscious of the murmuring stream and waving forests, and all the wild life that is therein."

To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story Mark Wicks

The wood-bird in the near tree sang over its dreamy notes.

The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

In a near tree a wood-bird sang a score of dreamy notes.

The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

Their breath the darkling wood-bird wakes and thrills;

0 1166. Thefts of the Morning by Edith Matilda Thomas. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 1900