"Chaffinch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with the pain, but he had grown more stoical since his sojourn in the country, and he held on tightly to his prize, which Harry declared, when he saw it, was a chaffinch with a swelled head; but afterwards, when they brought it to Mr Inglis, he told the boys it was a fine male specimen of the hawfinch, or grosbeak, rather a rare bird in the British Isles. A temporary cage was made for the prisoner ...
— Hollowdell Grange - Holiday Hours in a Country Home • George Manville Fenn
... horizon stretched Paris, all golden in the radiance of that spring morning. In the cemetery a chaffinch ...
— A Love Episode • Emile Zola
... Man,' Gowing made 'axeth' to rhyme with 'taxeth.' No word is more common in Suffolk than 'fare'; a pony is a 'hobby'; a thrush is a 'mavis'; a chest is a 'kist'; a shovel is a 'skuppet'; a chaffinch is a 'spink.' If a man is upset in his mind, he tells us he is 'wholly stammed,' and the Suffolk 'yow' is at least as old as Chaucer, ...
— East Anglia - Personal Recollections and Historical Associations • J. Ewing Ritchie |
