Birdling

This done, he broke one of the vials, and when he had sprinkled three drops of the Water of Death on the slain birdling, immediately its torn body grew together again. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Once you touch the delicate baby birdling, once you try too hard to help it live, you risk having it abandoned by its own mother and dying; helping can actually cause harm. ❋ Layla Revis (2011)

But sometimes, just like that helpless hatchling struggling for survival, in order to truly help, we need to step away, let it go, and watch that birdling fly. ❋ Layla Revis (2011)

There's simply nothing, nothing in the world, that warms the heart so much or makes us feel needed and worthwhile. â¨â¨But sometimes, just like that helpless hatchling struggling for survival, in order to truly help, we need to step away, let it go, and watch that birdling fly. ❋ Layla Revis (2011)

 He had an incomplete conception that when he brought the bird to school on the next day, that they would form some kind of mystical family, where he would occupy the position of father and protector as Rebekka brought her expert nurturance to bear on their little birdling. ❋ Mark Cecil Stevens (2010)

Thousands of mocking birds filled the air with music, and many a birdling started in its nest upon seeing brown eyes and blue, peering into its leafy hiding place. ❋ Unknown (1984)

The movements are very much like the "fluttering of a young birdling." ❋ William S. Sadler (N/A)

I can't help feeling mighty sorry for him, if the foster birdling is really going to fly away from his nest after he has reared and loved her so tenderly, but, after all, it is only the history of the human race. ❋ Eliot H. Robinson (N/A)

After fluttering thus from branch to branch, like the poor birdling that cannot take its flight, discouraged by his wretched attempts at life, he plunged straight before him, hoping for nothing but a turn of luck, driving over the roads and fields, lending a hand to the farmers, sleeping in stables and garrets, or oftener in the open air; sometimes charitably sheltered in a kind man's barn, and perhaps -- oh bliss! ❋ Various (N/A)

Have the critics, poor birdling, torn your wings, and mocked at your recording? ❋ Various (N/A)

There comes a time when the birdling must leave the old nest, prove his wings, and enter upon a new and independent life. ❋ Unknown (1919)

The joy that was my own, Jim, when our birdling came, ❋ Olive Tilford Dargan (1918)

His rush of rage cost the squirrel an eye; but it lost the father a birdling, for the squirrel dropped the egg outside the nest. ❋ Unknown (1915)

O not touch my little birdling, fierce Grey Wolf! entreated the mother piteously. ❋ Unknown (1910)

"I will spare the life of your birdling, if you will fly away beyond the thrice-nine lands, and bring me back the Water of Death and the Water of Life from the crystal stream whence they flow to the great Forever." ❋ Unknown (1910)

From "Love will like a birdling fly" she slipped into the exquisitely graceful snatches of song with which _Carmen_ answers the officer's questions. ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)

I held him in a sort of awe as he would come and go; but I felt as easy and restful in my mother's presence as a birdling in its sheltering nest. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Redruff, yards behind, preening his feathers on a high log, had escaped the eye of the squirrel, whose strange, perverted thirst for birdling blood was roused at what seemed so fair a chance. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)

She tells of her weeping, of the moon, the birdling, and the glow-worm. ❋ Downer, Charles A (1901)