A lovely little sun-bird (Nectarinia oseœ?), which the Frenchmen of course called colibri, with ravishing reflections of green and gold, flashed like a gem thrown from shrub to shrub: this oiseau mouche is found scattered throughout Midian; we saw it even about ❋ Unknown (2003)
Frenchmen of course called colibri, with ravishing reflections of green and gold, flashed like a gem thrown from shrub to shrub: this oiseau mouche is found scattered throughout Midian; we saw it even about El-Muwaylah, but I had unfortunately twice forgotten dust-shot. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
They had taken the precaution of setting free all the captive birds in the _aldeia_, and they had flown away, except the _pio duddu_ (the _colibri_), which they took with them into the forest. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)
In the first instance the grandmother begged for the help of the _pio duddo_ (or _colibri_). ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)
They would blaze away with their repeating rifles -- and bullet cartridges, of course -- at parrots and even _colibri_ birds 100 or 200 metres off. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)
The _colibri_ tied the vegetable ropes as requested, and all the boys climbed up. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)
The Bororos had many superstitions regarding animals, which they individualized in their legends, giving them human intelligence -- especially the _colibri_ (humming-bird), the macaw, the monkey, the deer, and the leopard. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)
Her hour is the fulness of the sun's flood-tide: she comes in the dead hush and white flame of windless noons, -- when colors appear to take a very unearthliness of intensity, -- when even the flash of some colibri, bosomed with living fire, shooting hither and thither among the grenadilla blossoms, seemeth a spectral happening because of the great green trance of the land .... ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
Like a dazzling flash of colored light the colibri (humming-bird) appears and disappears. ❋ Johann Jakob Von Tschudi (1853)
The gold-feathered colibri hums lightly through the air, soaring over the heavy, sombre-colored tapir. ❋ Johann Jakob Von Tschudi (1853)
The gaudy tanagers, that cannot be tamed -- the noisy lories, the resplendent trogons, the toucans with their huge clumsy bills, and the tiny bee-birds (the _trochili_ and _colibri_) -- all glance through the sunny vistas. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
Now and then a colibri whirred downward toward the water, hummed for a moment around some pendent flower, and then the living gem was lost in the deep blackness of the inner wood, among tree-trunks as huge and dark as the pillars of some Hindoo shrine; or ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
Also, i had to add colibri to Startup so it works. great work! reply to this ❋ Unknown (2010)
I can confirm that the KCM does not appear into System Settings on Kubuntu 9.10 i386, but I can call it through ` kcmshell4 colibri `. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Way too many clashing colors, too. colibri on January 20th 2010 at 5: 23pm view colibri's ❋ Unknown (2010)
Each of the mosaic compositions, handmade using tesserae in Murano glass and precious colibri, are part of only ❋ Unknown (2010)
