1 When that was eaten, the sparrow asked him whether he had had enough now.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE DOG AND THE SPARROW 2 There,' cried the sparrow, 'thou cruel villain, thou hast killed my friend the dog.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE DOG AND THE SPARROW 3 The carter was mad with fury; and without looking about him, or caring what he was about, struck again at the sparrow; but killed his third horse as he done the other two.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE DOG AND THE SPARROW 4 And the wife struck; but she missed her aim, and hit her husband on the head so that he fell down dead, and the sparrow flew quietly home to her nest.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE DOG AND THE SPARROW 5 I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 112. The Departure. 6 She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.
7 Charley took it in both his own with a tenderness beyond description, unless it was like that of a child holding a captured sparrow.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 8 The only living thing that entered now was a sparrow; and seeing no movements to cause alarm, he hopped boldly round the room, endeavoured to go out by the window, and fluttered among the pot-flowers.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day 9 Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the sparrow; the child is called the gamin.
10 It was the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE 11 He whose game is the eagle takes no heed of the sparrow.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS 12 Honey was a shrill- voiced sparrow and Scarlett a gleaming hummingbird.
13 She came out of her hysteria like a sparrow shaking off rain-drops.
14 The water stood in my eyes to hear this avowal of his dependence; just as if a royal eagle, chained to a perch, should be forced to entreat a sparrow to become its purveyor.
15 I found that the sparrow uttered none but harsh notes, whilst those of the blackbird and thrush were sweet and enticing.