Lexicographical Neighbors of Paraquets
Literary usage of Paraquets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of Australian Exploration by Robert Thynne (1894)
"These pretty little paraquets were of all colours, red, green, blue, yellow, and
each colour a vivid and lively tint. When a flock of these chatterers flew ..."
2. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne by George Berkeley, John Dewey, Ferdinand Gregorovius, George Sampson, Annie Hamilton, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (1898)
"And I look on the beaus and ladies as so many paraquets in an aviary, or tulips
in a garden, designed purely for my diversion. A gallery of pictures, ..."
3. Stuart Tracts, 1603-1693 by Charles H (Sir) Firth (1903)
"There is great plenty of birds and fowl, as pelicans, flam- mans [ ? flamingoes],
paraquets, mocking birds, and an innumerable company of sea fowl : and ..."
4. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1895)
"There is great plenty of birds and fowl, as pelicans, flam- mans [ ? flamingoes],
paraquets, mocking birds, and an innumerable company of sea fowl: and also ..."
5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1850)
"... which give food to paraquets, pigeons, and other birds ; to whose ancestors
it is probable the island was originally indebted for this vegetation. ..."
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