February 23, 2008 at 1:03 pm onna tree bai a river, a liddl tom-tit sang, ‘willow, tit-willow, tit-willow!’ ❋ Unknown (2008)
Pindar, you absurd little tom-tit, and fancy you have the strength and pinion which the Theban eagle bear, sailing with supreme dominion through the azure fields of air? ❋ Unknown (2006)
The grave Patavinian is still designated by the tom-tit appellation of ❋ John Hughes (N/A)
He spread himself, happy and conspicuous as a tom-tit on a round of beef, and the crowd, pleasantly anticipating mugs of beer later on, urged the Mayor to be up and doing. ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)
It is impossible to mistake this sprightly little bird, which is like the English tom-tit in shape. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)
A sterling old chap, mind you, so far as mere character is concerned; the right man in the right place; but as gullible and as soft-hearted as a tom-tit. ❋ Walter De La Mare (1914)
It is as though a huge locomotive engine were brought out to draw a child's perambulator, or as though an Armstrong gun were loaded and levelled to exterminate a tom-tit. ❋ Harold Begbie (1900)
The queen of the birds asked them one and all, from tom-tit to the wild swan, if they could tell where the key of wish-house was to be found; but not a single one of them knew. ❋ Unknown (1887)
It was the lion and the mouse over again -- the eagle and the tom-tit -- the bear and the rabbit. ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)
"I say," said Philip, "look at that tom-tit; it has a nest somewhere close by, I know." ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
Even the monstrous _roc_ of the _Arabian Nights_ must have been a mere tom-tit compared with the bird which Rabbi bar Chama says he once saw. ❋ William Alexander Clouston (1869)
"Drink, you tom-tit!" said the boy, catching the tumbler from the old gentleman, and applying it to his friend's lips. ❋ Unknown (1859)
In this calm retreat they erected a rough-and-ready wall of birch-bark and branches, which enclosed them on all sides except one, where a glorious fire was kindled -- a fire that would have roasted anything from a tom-tit to an ox, and the roaring flames of which had to be occasionally subdued, lest they should roast the whole encampment. ❋ Unknown (1859)
How we should pity the arrogance of the worm that crawls at our feet, if we knew that it also desired to know the secrets of futurity, and imagined that meteors shot athwart the sky to warn it that a tom-tit was hovering near to gobble it up; that storms and earthquakes, the revolutions of empires, or the fall of mighty monarchs, only happened to predict its birth, its progress, and its decay! ❋ Charles Mackay (1851)
"You'd look like a tom-tit on a haystack," said his lordship. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
"And if you got on my pony, you'd look like a haystack on a tom-tit," said Kate. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
The tom-tit replied, "Tweat -- tweat," in his own eloquent language; and, after gobbling up at least three strawberries, flew away, and was soon out of sight. ❋ Clara De Chatelain (1841)
"Eat as much as you like, pretty tom-tit," said Little Red ❋ Clara De Chatelain (1841)
Had you killed the wasp, or driven away the tom-tit, the former could not have stung the wolf's nostril and made him sneeze, nor the latter have given the huntsman the signal to fly his shaft. ❋ Clara De Chatelain (1841)
Presently, a little tom-tit, who had been hopping about on a bough opposite, darted down on the basket, and pecked at one of the strawberries. ❋ Clara De Chatelain (1841)
I'm off to [take] [a Tom] [Tit]! ❋ RJMac (2005)
Guy: Whoa, that girl is [soooo] Tits and Tom!
[Other guy]: I know!
Bob: Omg I would [tap that] sexy Tits & Tom so hard. ❋ Pocketfullofsexy (2011)
