How To Use Birdlime In A Sentence
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Like the heedless bird that finds itself caught in a net or in birdlime: the more it beats its wings and strives to get loose, the more it entangles itself.
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Iland bringeth foorth all sorts of fruits, as Canaria doth: and also all the other Ilands in generall bring foorth shrubs or bushes, out of the which issueth a iuice as white as milke, which after a while that it hath come out waxeth thicke, and is exceeding good birdlime, the bush is called Taybayba.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Oh, what unutterable corruption sticks, like birdlime, to all our motives, all our thoughts, all our words, all our actions!
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I never expected [MS torn] another friend, & yet chance has birdlimed me to one in a most odd manner.
Letter 257
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Sometimes they catch them with a viscous birdlime that paralyses their movements.
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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I learn from the notes on my copy of Aesop's Fables that the ancient Greeks caught birds with ixos (‘birdlime’), a sticky substance usually made from crushed mistletoe berries, or sometimes from oak-gum or similar.
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And I went with him down to the lovely river, and then he said to me, ‘Look and see how I do it, and then you’ll know: I put this birdlime round this twig, and then I go here,’ he said, ‘and hide away under a bush; and presently clever
Under the Greenwood Tree
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Sulphur, along with charcoal and birdlime, was a principal component of 16th century gunpowder, and a method of producing it from copperas stones was discovered in 1570.
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_Lime-twigs_ = snares; in allusion to the practice of catching birds by means of twigs smeared with a viscous substance (called on that account 'birdlime').
Milton's Comus
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It is asserted by some to possess properties fully equal to those of the I. aquifolium of Europe, the inner bark of which also yields a viscid substance called birdlime; its leaves are esteemed as a diaphoretic in the form of infusion; employed in catarrh, pleurisy, small-pox, etc.
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I may say, too, it furnished fowl and other creatures as dainties, in producing mistletoe for birdlime to ensnare them.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Every day boys were to be seen walking along the roads and by the hedges and ditches, catching dragonflies with birdlime.
The Malay Archipelago
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a magnifying-glass, it will be seen that its threads are closely studded with minute globules of gum, which is so sticky that flies caught in the web are held in this kind of birdlime until the spider is able to spring upon them.
Wild Nature Won By Kindness
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It bears a very slimy white berry, of which birdlime may be made, whence its Latin name of _viscus_, It is one of those plants which do not grow in the ground by a root of their own, but fix themselves upon other plants; whence they have been humorously styled parasitical, as being hangers-on or dependants.
Types of Children's Literature
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The figure is that of a bird caught by alighting upon a twig smeared with the sticky substance called birdlime.
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As the poor Flutterer, who by hard struggling has escaped from the birdlimed thorn-bush, still bears the clammy Incumbrance on his feet and wings, so am I doomed to carry about with me the sad mementos of past Imprudence and Anguish from which I have been imperfectly released.
Coleridge & Southey Letters
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No, no, what you want to smear on your head is: birdlime.
January Appearances « Whatever
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The common kind of birdlime readily loses its tenacious quality when long exposed to the air, and particularly when subjected to moisture; but it may be rendered capable of sustaining the action of water by the following
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