Songsters

Long ago the field was sown in wheat, which went to seed unharvested each year, and in the cool depths of which the poppy seeds were hidden from the keen-eyed songsters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Interestingly, this species -- one of which where paired males and females sing a duet -- has the reputation for being the finest songsters in all of Africa ... mighty high praise! ❋ Unknown (2011)

The festival brings out some of the best in hip hop and Indie songsters and will take place from April 15 to April 17 in the high desert a few hours outside of Los Angeles. ❋ Melissa Bell (2011)

It is when he makes the connections between the songs and the past that the book shakes off the cobwebs and revels in the ways that the swamp dredges up relics in a perpetual backwash of fecundity, inspiring latter-day songsters and scavengers. ❋ Eddie Dean (2010)

I began in my garden at dawn, listening out for any songsters brave enough to join the winter chorus. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The heartthrob songsters of the Jonas Brothers are part of a new application that will beam videos of the band straight to your mobile phone. ❋ Melissa Bell (2010)

The songsters waving U.S. and Mexican flags were members of the Christel House choir, called the Polyphonic Chorus, a U.S. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Comb vines and resonators formed a verdant vocal background for the songsters of the animal kingdom. ❋ Frederick Barthelme (2010)

She last came to my home on New Year's Eve where she played the piano for over two hours to a lot of indifferent songsters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“We do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their eggs, or their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey.” ❋ Carl Zimmer (2009)

Identifying reed bed songsters, including the reed and sedge warblers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Various songsters have been manufactured, including Rollers, which have been bred to sing with the beak closed, Waterslagers, which sound like bubbling water, and Timbrados, which produce metallic, bell-like notes, together with a castanet-like chatter that befits their Spanish origins. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)

The hill mynahs which are black, look bad tempered and have bright yellow beaks, are wonderful songsters and good mimics. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Dawydiak and others called them thugs with a history of troublemaking, who'd been drinking earlier and were jealous that young women at the party were giving their attention to the coat-and-tie-clad songsters. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thee let me invoke, tearful Philomel, lurking 'neath the leafy covert in thy place of song, most tuneful of all feathered songsters, oh! come to aid me in my dirge, trilling through thy tawny throat, as I sing the piteous woes of Helen, and the tearful fate of ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Jim]: "Seriously, stop forwarding to the next song after we hear the [chorus]!" Joe: "Sorry, I can't help it. I'm a [spastic songster]." ❋ Smokingmole (2010)

Why have you covered your [walls] with [half-naked] posters of [a Canadian] Songster? ❋ Leibovits (2013)