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Definition of Goldfinches
1. goldfinch [n] - See also: goldfinch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goldfinches
Literary usage of Goldfinches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Introduction to the English Reader: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and by Lindley Murray, Israel Alger (1823)
"The goldfinches. 1. AIL in a garden, on a currant bush, Two goldfinches had built
their airy seat; In the next or'chard liv'da friendly thrush, ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1898)
"5.86 J-75 2. lu .78 •54 A MONTH WITH THE goldfinches. BY MARY EMILY BRUCE.
•IS THE nesting season ¡s nearly over and the air is full of the voices of young ..."
3. Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth by Nora Archibald Smith (1902)
"... goldfinches On the Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop ' ° From low-hung
branches; little space they stop, T But sip, and twitter, ..."
4. Poetry of the Seasons by Mary Isabella Lovejoy (1898)
"... now bright in the sheen Of the hot summer sun, glancing scarlet and green !
goldfinches. — Mary Howitt. SOMETIMES goldfinches one by one ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"1 '11 join the widow's plaintive song, While I with tears your fate rehearse,
And save the lover in my verse. THE goldfinches. AN ELEGY. ..."
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