fledgeling

1 “Ah,” said his lady, “may the very good God watch over our little one, and may our old ears hear this fledgeling nightingale singing always.”

2 Who has not heard the process repeated over and over again from the young fledgeling Counsel to the old “hardbitten” and experienced K.C.?

3 There in the spring you may take in your hands the weak, halting fledgelings of the birds; rabbits and game multiply in the hollows.

4 They are the nests in which the young fledgelings of misfortune and vice begin their flight.

5 A fledgeling ambition, conscious of new aims and chances, revealed itself in all he said.

6 She was quite at home there, taking the fledgeling birds in her hands so softly that they were not afraid, and telling stories to them.

7 She had been a beauty then; every one danced to the tune she piped, and this curate—a mere fledgeling—had danced also.

8 Peggy sits alone in her pew, and her mind straying away from the fledgeling curate's flounderings, she asks herself sadly for how many more Sundays will this be so?

9 To the teaching of the Dominie they would come with pockets full of playthings, sometimes animals from the woods and fields about the town—frogs, moles, hedgehogs, or fledgeling birds.

10 Say, what is the spell, when her fledgelings are cheeping, That lures the bird home to her nest?

11 He is still tender like the fledgelings of the hawks of the Balkans, but soon, very soon, he will learn to spread his pinions.

12 And as I mused, above the jarring clang,     I heard a faint sweet sound of flutterings, A tender movement, musical and low,     As of a fledgeling trying its young wings.

13 His lawyer is a fledgeling named Cass, young, but wise enough not to talk.

14 The hen laid her eggs in her new abode, and in due time several fledgelings were hatched, which her faithful mate assisted her to rear.

15 As the fledgeling dove Feels the breast above, So your heart feels love.

16 “If I were you, Mac, I wouldn’t go nigh the rookery with them on, or them birds will take you for a fledgeling, mister, I guess!”

17 In one day the herd-boy crew Careless slew thy fledgelings fine.

18 He fed his fledgelings himself, tearing the meat into pieces.

19 Then, as warily as a cat he would pounce on them, catching fledgelings as easily as a man with a line will catch fish.

20 One of the ducks taken in this way was a mother with a fledgeling.

1 无经验的人

amateur

2 乳臭小儿

fledgling bantling

3 羽毛未丰的小鸟

fledgling

4 幼鸟

brood