Example Sentences

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Logs of great value, having bird's-eyes, have often unsuspectingly been chopped up for fire wood.

From Wood and Forest by Noyes, William

They were a beautiful blue, not like any other blue, not like the violets in the garden, or the sky over the trees, or the geranium in the grass, or the bird's-eyes by the path.

From The Open Air by Jefferies, Richard

The little blossoms have a peculiarly fresh and winsome look, and are called "bird's-eyes" by the children.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

The bird’s-eyes bright; Pink-tipp’d daisies; sorrel red, Drooping o’er the lark’s green bed; Oxlips; glazed buttercups, Out of which the wild bee sups; See! they dance about thy feet!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various