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1 Fantastic failures of journeys occupied me until the day dawned and the birds were singing.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XIX
2 I might have thought it was all lies together, only as the birds' names come out true, I supposed mine did.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XLII
3 So, I presented Joe to Herbert, who held out his hand; but Joe backed from it, and held on by the bird's-nest.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXVII
4 As to what I dare, I'm a old bird now, as has dared all manner of traps since first he was fledged, and I'm not afeerd to perch upon a scarecrow.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XL
5 It was a noble dish of fish that the housekeeper had put on table, and we had a joint of equally choice mutton afterwards, and then an equally choice bird.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXVI
6 Therefore, I was not only odd-boy about the forge, but if any neighbor happened to want an extra boy to frighten birds, or pick up stones, or do any such job, I was favored with the employment.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter VII
7 But Joe, taking it up carefully with both hands, like a bird's-nest with eggs in it, wouldn't hear of parting with that piece of property, and persisted in standing talking over it in a most uncomfortable way.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXVII
8 I could hardly have imagined dear old Joe looking so unlike himself or so like some extraordinary bird; standing as he did speechless, with his tuft of feathers ruffled, and his mouth open as if he wanted a worm.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XIII