 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis, pressed his breast against it, as if impatient. I fear, poor 35 creature ! said I, I cannot set thee at liberty. " No," said I never had my affections more tenderly... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellrs, pressed his breast against it, as if impatient. "I...fear, poor creature," said I, "I cannot set thee at liherty." "No," said the starling, "I can't get out; I can't get out," said the starling. I vow I never... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis, pressed his breast against it as if impatient....the starling, "I can't get out — I can't get out." I vow I never had my affections more tenderly awakened ; nor do I remember an incident in my life,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis, pressed his breast against it as if impatient....the starling, " I can't get out ! I can't get out !" I vow I never had my affections more tenderly awakened ; nor do I remember any incident in my life... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...same words repeated twice over ; and looking up, I saw it was a starling hung in a little cage : ' I can't get out, I can't get out,' said the starling. I stood looking at the bird ; and to every person who came through the passage, it ran fluttering to... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1870 - 262 pages
...same words repeated twice over ; and, looking up, I saw it was a starling hung in a little cage ; " I can't get out, I can't get out," said the starling. I stood looking at the bird ; and to every person who came through the passage, it ran fluttering to... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...took both hands to it. and, thrusting his head through the trellis, pressed his breast against i:, as if impatient. " I fear, poor creature," said I,...starling ; " I can't get out — I can't get out." I vow I never had my affections more tenderly awakened, nor do l remember an incident in my life where... | |
 | Laurence Sterne, David Herbert - Authors, English - 1872 - 512 pages
...it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting Ms deliverance, and, thrusting his head through the trellis, pressed his breast against it, as if...the starling; 'I can't get out — I can't get out.' I vow I never had my affections more tenderly awakened ; nor do I remember an incident in my life where... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...the same words repeated twice over ; and looking up, I saw it was a starling hung in a little cage: " I can't get out, I can't get out," said the starling. I stood looking at the bird; and to every person who came through the passage, it ran " Disguise thyself... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1873 - 446 pages
...deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis, pressed his breast against it, as if impatient.—I fear, poor creature, said I, I cannot set thee at liberty. ' No,' said the starling.—' I can't get out,—I can't ' get out,' said the starling. I vow I never had my affections more tenderly awakened;... | |
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I turned about the cage to get to the door; it was twisted and double twisted so fast with wire, there was no getting it open without pulling the cage to pieces; — I took both hands to it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance,... 
