Sentence examples for upon a bird from inspiring English sources

He came upon a bird.

According to the sages who issued the Biblical edicts of Deuteronomy, if you come upon a bird's nest, you may take eggs and nestlings, but you must leave the mother bird behind.

As a boy, Lord Snowdon came upon a bird's nest in Messel's garden, only to discover that it had been made by his uncle and that its eggs were hand-painted porcelain.

Similarly the barn owl (Tyto alba) was looked upon as a bird of ill omen, and it subsequently became a symbol of disgrace.

IQ tests run on a variety of breeds in the 1950s and 1960s showed that the American Cocker performed the best when tested on its ability to show restraint and delayed response to a trigger, a trait which was put down to the breed's bred-in ability when hunting to freeze upon finding a bird before flushing it out on command.

When Macbeth arrives, she sets upon him like a bird pecking at feed, wheedling and needling him into pursing murderous ambitions that clearly would have remained beyond the limits of his imagination — hers too — if dark fate had not decreed otherwise.

Vijay Tendulkar's "Once Upon A Fleeting Bird" is an English adaptation of a contemporary love story set in Bombay.

Mahesh Dattani's "Dance Like a Man," the opening attraction, and Vijay Tendulkar's "Once Upon a Fleeting Bird," opening on July 28, will be performed in English.

The other play in this year's program is "Once Upon a Fleeting Bird" by Vijay Tendulkar, who has built an international reputation by a lifetime of political provocation as well as by his work in theater.

Grab a piece of paper, and write three lines about something (eg. Once upon a time, their lived a bird - named Andy. Andy loved fishing, because - he loved eating).

The falcons are teased with a lure that looks like a bird they preys upon, setting the falcon into a series of dives as if it were hunting.