Word: birding
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...interest of '77 in Base Ball is shown by the number trying for the Nine, who are Messrs. Bird, Culbertson, Curtis, Eaton, Herrick, Keys, Latham, Leeds, McDowell, Nash, Roby, Sawyer, Thatcher, Tower, Walker, and Wheeler...
...young orator in his eager and oft-times futile efforts for success; that crude-ness which, in the young orator as in the budding writer, may be called, by a metaphor as true as it is homely, "veal." But this is one of the things impossible. The little bird, seeing its parent flying from bough to bough, thinks it can do the same. Having found itself strong enough for the slight use of its limbs required within the narrow bounds of the nest, it confidently makes trial of its strength in the air. But, alas! the failure. Not till then...
...bird is sleeping in her swaying nest...
Harrison, S. 4 0 0 Bird...
...gain the respect and esteem of the world, and to keep it, is to say nothing, to express our wisdom, like the owl, by our looks. The owl, throughout all history, has been distinguished for its dignified silence. When the ancients conferred upon it the proud title of the "Bird of Wisdom," they knew well what were the outward characteristics of wisdom. "Familiarity breeds contempt," says the old proverb, and the man who makes himself common by overmuch speaking will find an unpleasant confirmation of its truth...