General Knowledge Questions
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'Questions on Quotations on Birds
Where are the following quotations to be found ?
1.. "The sparrows were brighter than peacocks here." 2.-" Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang." 3. ". Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy."
4. "A widow bird sate mourning for her Love Upon a wintry bough." .5. "He grasps the crag with crooked hands - Close to the sun in lonely lands." 6. "Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar."
7. "Not' the wideet-winged condor on the Andes could, twice in succession, .send -out such a yell from the cloud shrouding his 'eyrie."
8. "She, poor bird, as all forlorn Leaned her breast uptill a forlorn, 9. "Bell-bird in the leafy deep Where the rates twine —., ' 10. "The owl for all his feathers was a-cold."
11. "The, many Wintered crow that leads the clanging rookery home."
12. "And the dove came to him in the evening, and lo ! in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off."
13. " . . . thou light-winged Dryad of the Trees
Answers, will, be.tound on page .32.
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