clay-colored sparrow

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noun

a sparrow, Spizella pallida, of the interior of North America, having buff, brown, and white plumage with a pale-gray breast.

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Which of the following colors is used to symbolize AIR?

Origin of clay-colored sparrow

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

How do you celebrate when happy occasions are colored by loss and absence?
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“I had this horrible secret and it colored everything I did,” said Roome.
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“No eyes are on the sparrow, eyes are on the sparrow / He is singing anyway.”
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But, together, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun delayed the Civil War for 40 years.
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Clay engineered the morally indefensible Missouri Compromise.
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The British had fired 143 cannon shot into the fort before the arrival of Gen. Clay.
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He conceived an idea of securing agents among the colored people, and in that way effect a good sale.
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The clear, straw-colored fluid which is left after separation of the coagulum is called blood-serum.
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Only the laborers on the plantations smoke small clay pipes.
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They use those with long, straight stems, and both their clay and porcelain pipes are of the finest form and finish.
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