parrakeet
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"Nor can the thrush be tamed to sit the finger like the parrakeet," I completed.
From Montlivet by Smith, Alice Prescott
Arkansas: Passenger pigeon, Carolina parrakeet, whooping crane; bison, elk, beaver.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
He smoothed her hair away from her salt-bitten eyes, laid his cheek pat against hers, and murmured to her through the scratch in his throat, like a parrakeet croons to its mate.
From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Hurst, Fannie
Louisiana: Passenger pigeon, Carolina parrakeet, Eskimo curlew, flamingo, scarlet ibis, roseate spoonbill; bison, ocelot.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
Flaming red cardinals flew to and fro before the intruders, and a small green parrakeet clung upside down to a moon vine and whistled as they went past.
From The Plunderer by Oyen, Henry
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