Sonny Sahib recognised the force of public opinion, and left the weaver-bird to her house - keeping in peace, but he felt privately injured by it. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
The nest of the Indian wren-warbler (_Prinia inornata_) is, except for its shape and its smaller size, very like that of a weaver-bird. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)
Having secured its prize the weaver-bird proceeds to tear off one or two more strands and then flies with these in its bill to the nesting site, uttering cries of delight. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)
The building weaver-bird betakes itself to a clump of elephant-grass, and, perching on one of the blades, makes a notch in another near the base. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)
'Give a woman an old wife's tale and a weaver-bird a leaf and a thread', they will weave wonderful things, 'said the Sikh. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
It is the community house of the little sociable weaver-bird of South ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)
I walked to the hills, over a level cultivated country interspersed with occasional belts of low wood; in which the pensile nests of the weaver-bird were abundant, but generally hanging out of reach, in prickly _Acacias. ❋ Unknown (1864)
You are not to suppose that there is but one species of weaver-bird -- one kind alone that forms these curious nests. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
They were of the species known as the "pensile weaver-bird." ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
They were of the species known as the "pensile weaver-bird" (_Ploceus pensilis_). ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
Wherever a slight break in the continuity of the mangrove belt permitted the river bank itself to be seen, the margin of the water was ablaze with tall orchids, whose eccentricities of form were matched only by their unsurpassable beauty of colouring; and even the tall, luxuriant grasses contributed their quota to the all-pervading loveliness of the scene by the delicate purple tints of their stamens; while the curious, pendent nests of the weaver-bird, hanging here and there from the longer and coarser grass-stalks curving over the water, added a further element of strangeness and singularity to the picture. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
[These weaver birds] are usually granivorous, though some are insectivorous; and one species, the red-billed weaver-bird, (Textor erythrorhynchus), is a parasite of the wild buffaloes. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
‘Give a woman an old wife’s tale and a weaver-bird a leaf and a thread’, they will weave wonderful things,’ said the Sikh. ❋ Unknown (2003)
