"Grosbeak" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the most native and democratic of our birds; He is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grosbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways. Hardy, noisy, frolicsome, neighborly, and domestic in his habits, strong of wing and bold in spirit, he is the pioneer of the thrush family, and well worthy of the finer ...
— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs
... Ruffed Grouse Kingfisher Bittern Bluejay Highholder Rosebreasted Grosbeak Sawwhet Owl Woodthrush Oriole Scarlet Tanager * * * * ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton
... — N. orange, red and yellow; gold; or; flame color &c adj.. [Pigments] ocher, Mars'orange^, cadmium. cardinal bird, cardinal flower, cardinal grosbeak, cardinal lobelia (a flowering plant). V. gild, warm. Adj. orange; ochreous^; orange-colored, gold-colored, flame-colored, copper-colored, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
