Sentence examples for redbreast from inspiring English sources

Obviously, the robin (redbreast) will be Labour's choice; the blue tit Tory; the yellowhammer Lib Dem; and the greenfinch for the Greens.

Related: Will the British bird be a redbreast or a blue tit? | Letters A rose-tinted curse The hazards of the Kent countryside and health secretary Jeremy Hunt are well known, but giving a talk last week I was tripped up by "fecund", which I contrived to turn into a leading English swearword.

The last type is seen in barefoot, bluebeard, hunchback, leatherneck, redbreast, and scatterbrain.

Early on the morning I went to see the San Francisco artists Barry McGee and Clare Rojas at their weekend place, in Marin County, a robin redbreast began hurling itself at a window in their living room.

This morning after Ted left, I blest his diminishing black figure, turned to chanting verses and got magnificent sense of power: learned the brief "call for the robin redbreast and the wren".

And the faded florals, with perhaps a robin redbreast singing in the pattern's center, were not silkscreen prints from the Old World but digital designs worked on a computer This balance between old and new — a romantic delicacy with a new look for the red carpet — was beautifully done.

But in most versions of this pitiless yarn, there is only one tender, redeeming detail: a sympathetic robin that scatters strawberry leaves as a coverlet over the children's tiny corpses: No burial these prettye babes Of any man receives Till Robin-redbreast painfully Did cover them with leaves.

On a spread whose focus is birds, for example, the Mother Goose rhyme "Robin Redbreast" introduces the subject: "Little Robin Redbreast / Sat upon a rail, / Niddle, naddle went his head, / Wiggle, waggle went his tail".

In the era of The Manchurian Candidate, the anxieties expressed in Rosemary are found everywhere; with the similarly pregnant heroine of John Bowen's interesting BBC play, Robin Redbreast (1970), just as with Edward Woodward's entrapped puritan policeman in the Anthony Shaffer-scripted The Wicker Man (1973).

Yes, Robin Redbreast my Christmas card hero.

And what will Robin Redbreast have for breakfast?" View Article By Phil Klay By Troy Patterson By John Cassidy By Andy Borowitz.