linnet

How To Use linnet In A Sentence

• Dried redshank seeds were eaten by the sparrows, and linnets.
• Songbirds such as the linnet, yellowhammer, skylark and song thrush to name but a few, are fast disappearing in our gardens and countryside.
• Both of the characters feel the terrible pain of aloneness and separateness felt also by both Linnet and Owl of the changeling stories.
• In another area, he sows seeds to attract birds like linnets, reed buntings and bramblings.
• Some 100 acres of his farm runs on to the Flamborough Head clifftops, next door to the RSPB sanctuary, with puffins, guillemots and gannets flying below and birds like linnets, grey partridge and corn bunting in the fields.
• And I am sure you’ll not believe this, but a linnet is an English finch. Sweetbriar
• The linnet 's wing is brown -- it's the head that's pink, if he wanted to talk sunsets. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
• 'linnet'! oh, my poor Merle, you have taken wings indeed! The Chouans
• By these remarks I mean to express the feeling that the word lintie conveys to my mind more of tenderness and endearment towards the little songster than linnet. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
• The latter, whose anger was unbounded, had seized a poignard at his girdle, and was about to have rushed on the impassable aggressor, when a guttural cry, like that of the _cilguero_, (a kind of linnet of The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love