Linnets

Word LINNETS
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Definitions and meanings of "Linnets"

What do we mean by linnets?

A small passerine bird, the common linnet (Linaria cannabina, syn. Carduelis cannabina), in the finch family Fringillidae, native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa.

A house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), of North America.

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The word "linnets" in example sentences

In order to entice the wild birds to alight amongst the nets, call birds are employed, of which there must be one or two of each of the different kinds which are expected to be caught, such as linnets, goldfinches, greenfinches, etc. ❋ Montagu Browne (N/A)

Chased by rooks, and scattering meadow pipits and linnets in its wake, it bounded along on V-shaped wings, as if attached to the sky with loose elastic. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering little pecks on the bark. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is probable that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal about the chief justice. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Larks, however, have seriously fallen in numbers as have linnets, another Brigidine songster. ❋ Jan (2008)

Skylarks and linnets, which have inspired poets from Blake to Yeats, nest in the short grass and sand on their edges. ❋ Shoumatoff, Alex (2008)

There were larks, linnets, and goldfinches — I should think at least twenty. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Red-polls, linnets, and even canaries, were kept in desks, drawers, hat-boxes, and other strange refuges for birds; but white mice were the favourite stock. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What would be thought of a man who should seek to discover what had been the primitive cry of all animals; and how it happens that, after a series of ages, sheep bleat, cats mew, doves coo, linnets whistle? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Republic and Empire your odes sound “like linnets in the pauses of the wind.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

She was in the world of lonely things — the flutter of twilight linnets, the aching call of gulls along a shore to which the netted foam crept out of darkness, the island of Aengus and the elder gods and the eternal glories that never were, tall kings and women girdled with crusted gold, the woful incessant chanting and the — — “Heh-cha-cha!” coughed Dr. Kennicott. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Sallying forth with it at these times, far into the country, I seldom returned at night without a string of bullfinches, blackbirds, and linnets hanging in triumph round my neck. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Imagine, when we returned here, we met some linnets who, just as the spring and the flowers and the long days had come, were setting out for the north and the cold? ❋ Unknown (2003)

She showed him nests of robins, and chaffinches, and linnets, and buntings; of a wagtail beside the water. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The gypsy began to comb her long brown locks, when suddenly she drew a pin from her stays, and, just as the titmouse digs its beak into the heads of linnets and larks, Titty dug the pin into the head of ❋ Unknown (2003)

Where thrushes never sing, and piping linnets mate no more, ❋ Unknown (2003)

You know, I think Fenix is the one helping us-you know, the mice and the linnets, all that. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1993)

Poor, hungry, prettily bright little linnets, no more magical than the mice had been-no more than he was himself. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1993)

The linnets and rabbits that fled when I approached could neither hear nor scent me there. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1980)

Lying swathed in these pungent and peppery vapours, I played through my hours and days, my bed piled high with beads and comics, pressed flowers, old cartridges, jack-knives, sparking-plugs, locusts, and several stuffed linnets. ❋ Lee, Laurie (1959)

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