"Early bird" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... early bird, and she and Miss Deane will probably be late. Can't you sing and play for me before they ...
— Elsie's New Relations • Martha Finley
... old adages, for I detest them!" said Nattie. "Especially that one about the early bird and the worm. But I fear, as a mystery, you are not ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer
... says he, "every share means a front foot, and every front foot a fortune. Send in fifty shares, and we'll give you a deed to a city lot. First come first served, and the early bird laps up the cream. I don't urge you to buy 'em. I'm just giving you a chance to get in on the ground floor. And if you don't want to come in to-day, maybe you will to-morrow. Anyway, have a button. Wear it! Tell your friends about Gopher. Here you are! Every-body ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford
... the critical turn. There were two more rooms on this floor; a small one opposite Clo's, tenanted by a young man who went to work at seven o'clock; and another still smaller, used as a storeroom—a refuge for trunks, dust-pans, and brooms. The early bird never locked his door, but his key fell ...
— The Lion's Mouse • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... hovering conspicuously in mid air, poured forth her joyous soprano solo; and the robin, quite unmindful of the tempo, filled out the pauses with his thoughtless staccato chirp. Augusta, who was herself the early bird of the pastor's family, had paid a visit to the little bath-house down at the brook, and was now hurrying homeward, her heavy black hair confined in a delicate muslin hood, and her lithe form hastily wrapped in a loose morning ...
— Tales From Two Hemispheres • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... small red cow, though she must still have been quite a little girl, for she could not remember which was the cow's right side, and had to mark her bag with a piece of chalk. Very soon she had two cows to milk, just as Mary and Moses had; and Moses, who was an early bird, used to wake her from a sound sleep by calling out, "Come, come, Patty! Dr. Chase's cows are out! Mary and I have milked! Up, up, ...
— Little Grandmother • Sophie May
... teaches that The Early Bird Gets the Worm, and that There Are Always as Good Fish In the ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) • Various
... "You are an early bird!" she exclaimed. "And a very proper bird, too. I suppose you thought you mustn't come into ...
— From Out the Vasty Deep • Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
... of by her children at this period was Mrs. Mel: nor had she been thinking much of them till a letter from Mr. Goren arrived one day, which caused her to pass them seriously in review. Always an early bird, and with maxims of her own on the subject of rising and getting the worm, she was standing in a small perch in the corner of the shop, dictating accounts to Mrs. Fiske, who was copying hurriedly, that she might earn sweet intervals for gossip, when Dandy limped up and delivered the ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith |
