The best of ~censored~ sparrer | Happy Share skip to main ❋ S!A!O At 3:51 PM (2009)
Same as a sparrer hawk watches a mouse, just afore she stoops. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)
Says she, 'I never hear a sparrer chirpin' and a kittle b'ilin ', that I don't think o' the dinner Mary Andrews had the day Judge McGowan spoke at the big barbecue. ' ❋ Eliza Calvert Hall (N/A)
He _would_ go on the ice just below the locks, when it would hardly bear a sparrer, let alone a drunk Robin, and he naturally goes under before he'd gone a dozen yards. ❋ Frederick Swainson (N/A)
Atter dat Tenie sot a sparrer-hawk fer ter watch de tree; en w'en de woodpecker come erlong nex 'mawnin' fer ter finish his nes ', he got gobble' up mos 'fo' he stuck his bill in de bark. ❋ Various (N/A)
I was makin 'her a cup o' tea one day, and the kittle was bubblin 'and singin', and she begun to laugh, and says she, 'Jane, do you hear that sparrer chirpin' in the peach tree there by the window? ' ❋ Eliza Calvert Hall (N/A)
What a spry little thing you was, a-hoppin 'about among the mahogany and walnut stuff like a young sparrer! ❋ Various (N/A)
'E was weak as a kid and chirpy as a sparrer, and only cursin' becos 'e was out of things for the rest of the war. ❋ Vernon Bartlett (1938)
As for Tony, he was more a fighter than a sparrer. ❋ Unknown (1928)
Ye see, sir, though doleful, Mr. Bimby's very kind 'earted, and' e's always a-nussing somebody or something -- last time it were a dog with a broke leg -- ah, I've knowed 'im bring' ome stray cats afore now, many's the time, and once a sparrer. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
But he was a scientific sparrer as well, though he had, I have been told, a curious sprawling fashion of his own. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1907)
"I always eat sparrer-grass with my fingers," he had said, and wondered at the general hilarity. ❋ Max Pemberton (1906)
You're a sparrer, and a clever, pretty sparrer; but sparring ain't the real thing. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)
But no fine-lady sparrer can stand afore that ugly rush of his. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)
"He says you're only a sparrer, and that you'd fall down with fright if you was put into a twenty-four-foot ring." ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)
Now I don't want to have any more trouble over it with you, Hiram, for we've been too good friends, and will try to continner so after this thing is over and done with, but if you or that gang of up-country sparrer-hawks stick your fingers or your noses into this business that I'm in now, I'll give the lobsters and cunners round this island just six good hearty meals. ❋ Holman Day (1900)
He was a better sparrer than Clifford and was his equal in the use of the foils. ❋ Unknown (1899)
"He's a natural fighter and the other an excellent sparrer, but I don't hedge a guinea." ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1896)
'Ark at this' ere young cock sparrer as tells a fam'ly man like Clegg as he's drunk! ❋ F. Anstey (1895)
