Sentence Examples

1. They had taken off his breastplate and backpiece, but they neither knew nor saw how to open his gorget or remove his make-shift helmet, for he had fastened it with green ribbons, which, as there was no untying the knots, required to be cut.
2. There was the honest cock robin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds and the golden-winged woodpecker with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage and the cedar bird, with its red-tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feathers and the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light blue coat and white underclothes, screaming and chattering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove.