1 'Only mustard isn't a bird,' Alice remarked.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis CarrollContext Highlight In CHAPTER IX. The Mock Turtle's Story 2 He was not like an Indian bird and she liked him and wondered if she should ever see him again.
3 "Here he is," chuckled the old man, and then he spoke to the bird as if he were speaking to a child.
4 The bird put his tiny head on one side and looked up at him with his soft bright eye which was like a black dewdrop.
5 He looked at the plump little scarlet-waistcoated bird as if he were both proud and fond of him.
6 He felt as if he were being led to look at some strange bird's nest and must move softly.
7 Then she saw it was meant for a nest with a bird sitting on it.
8 He says he feels sometimes as if he was a bird or a rabbit himself, he likes them so.
9 Swiftly something flew across the wall and darted through the trees to a close grown corner, a little flare of red-breasted bird with something hanging from its beak.
10 It's no worse than hidin where a bird's nest is.
11 Colin was almost too late but he just caught sight of him, the flash of red-breasted bird with something in his beak.
12 Now, far away in the woods a bird called; another answered; presently the hammering of a woodpecker was heard.
13 He drifted listlessly down the street and found Jim Hollis acting as judge in a juvenile court that was trying a cat for murder, in the presence of her victim, a bird.
14 He said his father laid mighty sick once, and some of them catched a bird, and his old granny said his father would die, and he did.
15 "How much the bird reminds me of the musical box that belonged to our blessed Empress," said an old knight.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SWINEHERD