Sparrow

(noun.) any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects.

录入:李莉斯

• As if it were Cock Robin, the hero of the ballad, and Mr Venus were the sparrow with his bow and arrow, and Mr Wegg were the fly with his little eye. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Behold, cried he, as he entered, what bird's food I have brought for my sparrow on the house-top. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Yer ought ter look up to the Lord above--he's above all--thar don't a sparrow fall without him. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I found that the sparrow uttered none but harsh notes, whilst those of the blackbird and thrush were sweet and enticing. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Charley took it in both his own with a tenderness beyond description, unless it was like that of a child holding a captured sparrow. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• We had lain in hay and talked and shot sparrows with an air-rifle when they perched in the triangle cut high up in the wall of the barn. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Sparrows were there, cats were there, dry-rot and wet-rot were there, but it was not otherwise a suggestive spot. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• My little woman, says Mr. Snagsby to the sparrows in Staple Inn, likes to have her religion rather sharp, you see! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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