Birdless

Its name signifies "birdless," indicating that its ascending vapors were fatal to all birds that attempted to fly above its surface. ❋ Charles Morris (1877)

Harsh reality is an acquired taste, and it beats the heck out of fantasies that leave you birdless and crying at the end of what should have been your day in the field. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In Riding the Iron Rooster, China is a barren, birdless, smog-choked land that smells of lots of things you don't want to smell, primarily urine. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was still no sign that his approach was observed; the headland was silent, birdless. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All that time I have lived my life under birds and I cannot remember a single birdless day. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)

He called it Avernus and it takes its name from the Greek word “aornos,” meaning birdless. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)

Slowly they filtered back the way they came and I was left birdless that day. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Cheney, like everyone else in the Bush White House, gets up at birdless dawn and by early evening shows unmistakable signs of testiness and snappishness. ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)

I pulled over by an oyster table to comfort myself with the safely birdless suit-backs of the men lined up in front of me, and with the oysters themselves, as far from flight as animals can get, limbless and slick, more like an organ than an organism, like little stopped hearts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In classical mythology, the entrance to the underworld was marked by a birdless lake. ❋ Maribeth Fischer (2007)

We scoured Finger Mountain for an hour, then clawed our way back to the road, birdless. ❋ Unknown (2004)

When she returned, the bird was gone, and Kiron was just cutting the foot off the birdless leg, carefully not touching the scroll, leaving only the bit of skin and bone with the amulet attached. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2006)

To this silent, birdless, sunless shambles we returned again and again. ❋ Lee, Laurie (1959)

-- D.WITT TALMAGE, D.D. And how refreshing is the sight of the birdless bonnet! ❋ Charles Almanzo Babcock (N/A)

The bladeless field, the birdless thicket muffling, ❋ Various (N/A)

[Good God], Michael has [gone off] his rockers…He’s completely [Birdless]. ❋ CloaKaine (2023)