 ... pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case; but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward; the little king-bird, not bigger...  Annual Register - Сторінка 357редактори - 1819Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | John CARVER (J.P., of New England.), Nathaniel Shatswell Dodge - 1842 - 296 стор.
...he is a rank coward ; the little king-bird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. He is, therefore, by no means...honest Cincinnati of America, who have driven all the king-birds from our country." In a little distance we again entered the forest, and clambering upward,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1817 - 596 стор.
...honest Cincinnati of America, who have driven all the king birdt from our country : though exactly fit for that order of knights which the French call Chevaliers d'Industrie. I am on this account not displeased thiit the figure is not known as a bald eagle, but looks more like a turkey. For, in truth, the turkey... | |
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...drive an eagle away without a fight. Franklin saw the wild turkey as a more suitable emblem for "the Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our country... The turkey is ... a much more respectable bird... He is besides, though a little vain and silly, a... | |
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