 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 450 页
...same words repeated twice over; and looking up, I saw it was a starling hung in a little cage. — " I can't get out, — I can't get out," said the starling. I stood looking at the bird : and to every person who came through the passage, it ran fluttering to... | |
 | London readers - 1884 - 216 页
...The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and, thrusting his head through the trellis,* pressed his breast against it, as if...can't get out, I can't get out," said the starling. al-be'-it trel'-lis be-shrew' so-li'-lo-quy som'-bre vaunt'-ing-ly IX. THE STARLING; OR LIBERTY (2).... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 296 页
...it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis, pressed his breast against it, as if...starling — " I can't get out — I can't get out." I never had my affections more tenderly awakened ; nor do I remember an incident in my life, where... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1884 - 498 页
...it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting its deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis, pressed his breast against it as if impatient....creature, ' said I, ' I cannot set thee at liberty.' ' I can't get out; I can't get out,' said the starling. I vow, I never had my affections more tenderly... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 264 页
...it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis, pressed his breast against it as if impatient....can't get out ; I can't get out,' said the starling. 5. I vow I never had my affections more tenderly awakened ; and I heavily walked upstairs, unsaying... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1885 - 386 页
...deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis, pressed his breast against it, as if impatient.—I fear, poor creature, said I, I cannot set thee at liberty. "No," said the starling.—" I can't get out,—I can't get out," said the starling. I vow I never had my affections more tenderly awakened... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1888 - 316 页
...it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis pressed his breast against it as if impatient....at liberty." " No," said the starling ; " I can't / j get out, I can't get out," said the starling. I vow I never had my affections more tenderly awakened... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1890 - 402 页
...it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis pressed his breast against it as if impatient....the starling, " I can't get out — I can't get out ! " Mechanical as the notes were, yet so true in tune to Nature were they chanted, that in one moment... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - 1892 - 482 页
...open The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis, pressed his breast against it as if impatient. "I fear, poor creature, I can not set thee at liberty." "I can't get out, I can't get out !"said the starling. Perhaps it is... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 518 页
...it. Tue bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis, pressed his breast against it as if impatient....the starling, " I can't get out, I can't get out." I vow I never had my affections more tenderly awakened; nor do I remember an incident in my life where... | |
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I turned about the cage to get to the door; it was twisted and double twisted so fast with wire, there was no getting it open without pulling the cage to pieces; — I took both hands to it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance,... 
