1 All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the back door.
2 Moses sprang off his perch and flapped after her, croaking loudly.
3 She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.
4 He would perch on a stump, flap his black wings, and talk by the hour to anyone who would listen.
5 I like a man to be natural, not always on a perch.
6 Descending from her perch she again sauntered off towards Rainbarrow, though this time she did not go the whole way.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 7 I was just balancing whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her landau when a cab came through the street.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 8 After a while, however, he wearied of his perch and, dropping alone to the pavement, pushed his way to the first corner and turned into the moonlit silence of a side street.
9 They had dropped a decaying perch into his pocket.
10 Then arranging his person in the basket, he gave the word for them to hoist him to his perch, Starbuck being the one who secured the rope at last; and afterwards stood near it.
11 Unmindful of the tedious rope-ladders of the shrouds, the men, like shooting stars, slid to the deck, by the isolated backstays and halyards; while Ahab, less dartingly, but still rapidly was dropped from his perch.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day. 12 They seemed content to perch tranquilly on the river bank, and leave him bowed down by the weight of a great problem.
13 I spects I 's the wickedest critter in the world; and Topsy would cut a summerset, and come up brisk and shining on to a higher perch, and evidently plume herself on the distinction.'
14 And close by them lay a lamb upon the floor, and behind them upon a perch sat a white dove with its head hidden beneath its wings.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED 15 Dantes from his rocky perch saw the shattered vessel, and among the fragments the floating forms of the hapless sailors.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.