How To Use Linnet In A Sentence
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Dried redshank seeds were eaten by the sparrows, and linnets.
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Songbirds such as the linnet, yellowhammer, skylark and song thrush to name but a few, are fast disappearing in our gardens and countryside.
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Both of the characters feel the terrible pain of aloneness and separateness felt also by both Linnet and Owl of the changeling stories.
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In another area, he sows seeds to attract birds like linnets, reed buntings and bramblings.
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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.
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And I am sure you’ll not believe this, but a linnet is an English finch.
Sweetbriar
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The linnet 's wing is brown -- it's the head that's pink, if he wanted to talk sunsets.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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'linnet'! oh, my poor Merle, you have taken wings indeed!
The Chouans
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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
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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
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On farmland, the numbers of song thrushes fell by 66 per cent between 1972 and 1996, of bullfinches by 62 per cent, of skylarks by 75 per cent, of linnets by 40 per cent, of spotted flycatchers by 78 per cent and of lapwings by 46 per cent.
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The linnet is here, and the lark, and the yellowhammer,
Betsinda Dances and Other Poems
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Waders such as redshank and spoonbills, have begun to proliferate, and numbers of larks, linnets, yellowhammers and reed bunting have grown.
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For the voice that he swore 'ud out-call the linnet's
Green Bays. Verses and Parodies
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The robin chaffinch blue tit and wren and green linnet collectively can put on a marvellous show as they take turns at feeding.
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They put down their loads and went back for more, and Burginde brought in one hand my pigskin satchel, and in the other the willow cage that held the linnet.
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The farm itself has good numbers of breeding birds and is home to yellowhammers, linnets, corn buntings, tree and hedge sparrows, along with lapwings and grey partridge.
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In another area, he sows seeds to attract birds like linnets, reed buntings and bramblings.
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Most urban and suburban gardeners would nowadays be astonished to see the once-common linnet or bullfinch, even if they recognised one in the first place.
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Songbirds such as the linnet, yellowhammer, skylark and song thrush to name but a few, are fast disappearing in our gardens and countryside.
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The linnet chirps her vernal song.
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The Red List also features a disturbingly high number of formerly common farmland birds which are rapidly declining: tree sparrow, grey partridge, spotted flycatcher, song thrush, skylark, linnet and turtle dove.
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There is something very Arcadian and un-Cockney-like in the idea of linnet-singing in Lock's Fields.
Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis
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If you have never heard the lilting song of the linnet, spotted the distinctive plumage of a goldcrest, or waited for the whirring wings of a grey partridge, it is increasingly unlikely that you ever will.
Europe's farmland birds on decline
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The Red List also features a disturbingly high number of formerly common farmland birds which are rapidly declining: tree sparrow, grey partridge, spotted flycatcher, song thrush, skylark, linnet and turtle dove.
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And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail, which have been seriously declining since the growth of intensive agriculture.
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built their nests" in the tree: the Greek word has no such meaning; the word merely means "to settle or rest upon" anything for a longer or shorter time; nor is there any occasion to suppose that the expression "fowls of the air" denotes any other than the smaller insessorial kinds -- linnets, finches, etc.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Our linnet is a little larger than the English, with a clear, bell-like voice, as of a blacksmith’s hammer on an anvil.
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
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More than 2,600 linnets, 100 yellowhammers, 229 reed buntings and 1,200 skylarks have been recorded along with smaller numbers of brambling, tree sparrows and chaffinches.
BBC News - Home
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In another area, he sows seeds to attract birds like linnets, reed buntings and bramblings.
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Once common species such as the snipe, lapwing and curlew have seen declines of up to 73 per cent; birds like the twite, a moorland version of the linnet, are now gone from some parts of the park.
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And is it the way I'd be leavin 'you marry some good-for-nothing idle jackeen, who couldn't buy a ha'porth of bird seed for a linnet or a finch, let alone to keep a wife?
Duty, and other Irish Comedies
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When I was questioning Louise Beauchain in Linnet Doyle's cabin.
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And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail, which have been seriously declining since the growth of intensive agriculture.
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An elderly man sat reading a newspaper, by his side was a linnet in a reed cage.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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Where once there were acres of grain, there are now acres of barnacle geese; where sheep once grazed, there are widgeon and teal; lapwing and redshanks have replaced the cattle; his new crops are spoonbills, snipe, skylarks and linnets.
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And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail.
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We have planted over 800 native trees along the embankment, creating a wonderful habitat for warblers such as whitethroat, garden warbler and blackcap, as well as linnets, once a common bird that seems to be disappearing.
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Be it a duck, a sparrow, a linnet or a thrush.
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The English word linnet does not, to my mind, convey so much of simple beauty and of pastoral ideas as belong to our Scottish word LINTIE.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
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Once common species such as the snipe, lapwing and curlew have seen declines of up to 73 per cent; birds like the twite, a moorland version of the linnet, are now gone from some parts of the park.
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The shoemaker often took walks in the extensive town meadows, to gather groundsell and plantain for his canaries and gorse-linnets, and little
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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To wake, to warblej and to woo No Linnet calls his drooping love:
Ode to the Honourable William Pitt ..
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Every month, RSPCA inspectors in Rochdale receive three or four reports of greenfinches, bullfinches, linnets and goldfinches being trapped and caged before being sold to breeders.
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Other species in danger are the brown hare, skylark, linnet, reed bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, bullfinch, song thrush and grass-wrack pondweed.
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The melody of singing birds ranks as follows: The nightingale first, then the linnet, titlark, sky lark and wood lark.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
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The farm itself has good numbers of breeding birds and is home to yellowhammers, linnets, corn buntings, tree and hedge sparrows, along with lapwings and grey partridge.
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Just what one learned from the linnet and the throstle was never disclosed by Wordsworth but that was probably because their lessons were ineffable, like the Beatific Vision.
NATURE
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Every month, RSPCA inspectors in Rochdale receive three or four reports of greenfinches, bullfinches, linnets and goldfinches being trapped and caged before being sold to breeders.
