Barn Swallow

Then we drove away through the lanes draped with birch tassels and willow wands, while bloodroot and marshmarigold kept pace in the runnels, and I heard the twitter of the first barn-swallow of the year. ❋ Mabel Osgood Wright (1896)

They remain later than the barn-swallow, go farther north in spring, and winter beyond the limits of our northern continent. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The barn-swallow resembles, in many respects, the European chimney-swallow; yet it is, in fact, a different variety – entirely American. ❋ Unknown (1887)

In Sweden she builds in barns, and is called _Ladu swala_, the barn-swallow. ❋ Various (1887)

We should have said that it was impossible that any should survive but for one authentic instance in recent years, in which a barn-swallow lived through the winter in a semi-torpid state in an outhouse at a country vicarage. ❋ Unknown (1881)

He cannot always adapt his house either to the physical or mental size of his family, but must accept what is possible with much the same feeling with which a family of robins might accommodate themselves to a wren's nest, or an oriole to that of a barn-swallow. ❋ Candace Wheeler (1875)

A barn-swallow occasionally darts in through the open window and out again at the door, as though for very sport, only a few days since skimming beneath my nose, while its wings fairly tipped the pen with which I was writing. ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)

How different it is in all these respects from the young barn-swallow! ❋ Various (1868)

As a result she was delighted to find him genial and wakeful until they parted rather late in the old mansion wherein, she jestingly said, she proposed to build their nest, like a barn-swallow, the following day. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)