Sentence examples for bird mentioned from inspiring English sources
Starlings are a periodic nuisance — we wouldn't even have them if some idiot who thought North America should have every bird mentioned by Shakespeare hadn't imported them from England.
A starling flies overhead, recalling a sort of relevant story: in 1890 Eugene Schieffelin, an eccentric drug manufacturer, introduced 60 starlings in Central Park in an effort to introduce to America every bird mentioned by Shakespeare.
And did you know that the starling, an especially prolific and loathsome bird, was unleashed to American skies in 1890 by Eugene Schieffelin, a pharmaceutical manufacturer who was seeking to introduce every bird mentioned by Shakespeare to the United States?
And he added, "When will The Times wake up?" A quick search of Times news stories turned up only one recent example of the phrase being used in the manner Mr. Bird mentioned.
The starling, originally a European bird, was released in Central Park in 1890 after Eugene Schieffelin, a member of the American Acclimatization Society, decided he wanted to introduce every bird mentioned by Shakespeare into North America.
One minute he talks about the evolutionary origin of cells, then the destruction of topsoil, then the release of starlings in Central Park by a misguided Shakespeare buff who wanted North America to have every species of bird mentioned in the playwright's works.
According to CNN, Big Bird mentions spiked 800,000% on Facebook.
These include chaperones at a school dance insisting on leaving "six inches for the holy spirit," a college counselor bursting out laughing when Lady Bird mentions Yale, and a football coach who directs theater as if he were diagramming plays.
Another set out to introduce all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare into the United States.
Arranged by ornithological species, it helpfully features a section of notes giving further information about the birds mentioned.
All the birds mentioned above are breeding and flourishing (apart from the poor turtle dove, unsaveable and soon to go extinct in Britain).
