"Sparrow" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... clover-fields, rose-gardens, and new-leafed black birch and sassafras. Such a well-kept, clean world of open country it looked to Patsy as her eye followed the road before her, on to the greening meadows and wooded slopes, that her heart joined the chorus of song-sparrow and meadow-lark, who sang from the sheer gladness of being a ...
— Seven Miles to Arden • Ruth Sawyer
... it, instead of taking it thankfully, as she ought to have done, for she was really very comfortably off in the cottage—having bread and milk every morning and night, and something for dinner too; besides what mice she could catch, to say nothing of a stray robin or sparrow now and then. But, as I said just now, the magpie's chattering stories unsettled her; she thought it would be so charming to dine upon bits of roast chicken, and have buttered crumpets for breakfast, and fine cushions to lie upon, like the countess's cat. All this ...
— Tales From Catland, for Little Kittens • Tabitha Grimalkin
... swooped down on them with a shout, like hawks on a sparrow. John pulled up his horse and ...
— Jess • H. Rider Haggard
... woman never quite knows a man until she has lived with him and day by day unearthed his little idiosyncrasies. She may seem close to him, in those earlier days of romance, but she never really knows him, any more than a sparrow on a telegraph wire knows the Morse Code thrilling along under its toes! Men have so many little kinks and turns, even the best of them. I tacked oil-cloth on a shoe-box and draped chintz around it, and fixed a place for Dinky-Dunk to wash, in the bedroom, ...
— The Prairie Wife • Arthur Stringer
... his head on one side, like a meditative sparrow; "'tective fellers can't find out; that's the difficulty. Good mind to go on ...
— The Mystery of a Hansom Cab • Fergus Hume
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