1 They speedily resolved themselves into three large brown birds, which circled over the heads of the two wanderers, and then settled upon some rocks which overlooked them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 2 The cries of the foul birds awoke the two sleepers who stared about them in bewilderment.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 3 The birds jumped on to their perches, the animals settled down in the straw, and the whole farm was asleep in a moment.
4 The birds at first objected, since it seemed to them that they also had two legs, but Snowball proved to them that this was not so.
5 The birds did not understand Snowball's long words, but they accepted his explanation, and all the humbler animals set to work to learn the new maxim by heart.
6 She had been waked by the birds.
7 The window was open now; the birds certainly were singing.
8 The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them.
9 It was unlikely, she thought, that the birds were the same.
10 "Swallows," said Lucy, holding her cup, looking at the birds.
11 The little grapes above them were green buds; the leaves thin and yellow as the web between birds' claws.
12 As they listened and looked--out into the garden--the trees tossing and the birds swirling seemed called out of their private lives, out of their separate avocations, and made to take part.
13 Then the random ribbons of birds' voices woke her.
14 The tree became a rhapsody, a quivering cacophony, a whizz and vibrant rapture, branches, leaves, birds syllabling discordantly life, life, life, without measure, without stop devouring the tree.
15 She turned the pages looking at pictures--mammoths, mastodons, prehistoric birds.