She had by this time become an expert flier, and being proud to resemble a bird, she dressed herself in flowing robes of as many colors as a poll-parrot could boast. ❋ Baum, L. Frank (1971)
The profane poll-parrot is not a more startling witness to the character of its surroundings than the "terrible infant," whose rude snatchings, pert contradictions, and glib slang phrases are sure to be most effectively "shown off" in the presence of visitors. ❋ Agnes H. Morton (N/A)
"No, but she has got a poll-parrot, as I told you, Thad!" observed ❋ Donald Ferguson (N/A)
Fortunately, the train at this juncture stopped at a way station, and the yellow moustache, poll-parrot scarf, and kid gloves got out, first bowing very politely to their late companion. ❋ Various (N/A)
He wore a heavy yellow watchguard, yellow kid gloves, and a moustache to match, patent-leather boots, a poll-parrot scarf, and a brilliant breast-pin. ❋ Various (N/A)
'Allow me, gentlemen,' said Mr. Archibald Slinkey, a red-faced, elderly man, with a nose like the beak of a poll-parrot -- 'to propose the health of my excellent and highly esteemed friend, Frank Sydney. ❋ George Thompson (N/A)
The Bolsheviki of the present not only poll-parrot the balderdash of the French demagogues of 1789; they also mouth what was gospel to every _bête blonde_ in the Teutonic forest of the fifth century. ❋ George Jean Nathan (1920)
'Round here I've learned to be like a barroom poll-parrot, ready to answer to most everything. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
When silver is placed on an equality with all other commodities; when the people are permitted to freely employ it as they please, then will the natural law of supply and demand apply to the white metal, and New York editors cease to jabber financial nonsense with the stupid persistence of a poll-parrot praising its own personal pulchritude. ❋ Unknown (1905)
It all ended by my repeating in a stupid, poll-parrot fashion: ❋ Myrta Lockett Avary (1903)
Jimmy went on quickly: -- 'You're like a poll-parrot, like a screechin' poll-parrot. ' ❋ Unknown (1897)
Shyness simply means extreme sensibility, and has nothing whatever to do with self-consciousness or with conceit, though its relationship to both is continually insisted upon by the poll-parrot school of philosophy. ❋ Unknown (1893)
[Illustration] "Fire, fire, fire!" called the voice again, followed by a laugh and Billy, looking up, saw a green poll-parrot swinging on a rope overhead, that commenced to call: "April fool, April fool!" as loud as she could. ❋ Frances Trego Montgomery (1891)
I reckon I was locoed to be makin 'a he poll-parrot out of myself for a kid like you. ❋ O. Henry (1886)
If you think I am such a cruel old woman as to shut up a poor poll-parrot in a bag, there's no help for it, we must open the bag. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
'I like him a hundred times better than I do that mincing little poll-parrot of a Madame Blanchard: she is odious, and I hate her, and I hate Fräulein too. ❋ Rosa Nouchette Carey (1874)
Look at that: there's a poll-parrot -- two of 'em -- settled in the tree above him! ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
'Or a prince, a poll-parrot, a Perigord-pie,' added Drummond, whose gravity did not prevent Mr. George from seeing that he was laughed at. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
