Dicky Bird

I don't understand, all I see for cake no.4 is a little dicky-bird... ❋ Unknown (2010)

Funny one hardly hears a dicky-bird from the Orient on the matter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I shall say that the writer may have mastered the dicky-bird language on the flints that they call ❋ Unknown (2007)

"It isn't 'measly' and it isn't a 'dicky-bird!'" she answered indignantly. ❋ Frederic S. Isham (N/A)

"Do ye mean," he observed, "you come back here for that measly dicky-bird?" ❋ Frederic S. Isham (N/A)

I am a man of strict business habits, and some powers of observation; my little squirrel's assurances that there is nothing in the box, combined with her obvious anxiety that I should not go and see for myself, satisfy me that it is indeed empty, in spite of the fact that I have not invariably found her a strictly truthful little dicky-bird. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Here's an old sourdough like me hittin 'the trail with a broom in one fist and -- by he -- hen, a dicky-bird in the other!" ❋ Barrett Willoughby (N/A)

But all I can do is warble like a darn 'dicky-bird. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)

The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. ❋ Unknown (1911)

At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them. ❋ George Horace Lorimer (1902)

The hymns proved to be nursery rhymes of salvation set to what may be described as lightly spinning dicky-bird music. ❋ Corra Harris (1902)

"What is it, a Boche dicky-bird insulting you?" asked Gary, in his Yankee drawl. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Ain't got no more sense for this life than a dicky-bird. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

As the days grew short and bleak, she found herself thinking more and more of the happy-hearted, symbolic dicky-bird on a faraway window ledge. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

At last a yellow streak shot out through the open door and an instant later resolved itself into the bobbing, fluttering dicky-bird that had lived in a cage all its life without an hour of freedom. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

It's the humour of tom-cats playin 'with a-- a dashed little silly dicky-bird. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)

"Get down here and keep an eye on this dicky-bird," he ordered. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)