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Word with: "jackdaw"
"The Vain Jackdaw
Jupiter determined, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a certain day they should all present themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful among them to be king. The Jackdaw, knowing his own ugliness, searched through the woods and fields, and collected the feathers which had fallen from the wings of his companions, and stuck them in all parts of his body, hoping thereby to make himself the most beautiful of all. When the appointed day arrived, and the birds had assembled before Jupiter, the Jackdaw also made his appearance in his many feathered finery. But when Jupiter proposed to make him king because of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each plucked from him his own feathers, leaving the Jackdaw nothing but a Jackdaw."
Author: Aesop
About: Aesop Fables
"The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair!
Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there,
Many a monk and many a friar,
Many a knight and many a squire,
With a great many more of lesser degree,–
In sooth a goodly company;
And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee.
Never, I ween,
Was a prouder seen,
Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams,
Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims."
Author: Richard Harris Barham
About: Jackdaws
"An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of
money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked,
"Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could
make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole
chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do."
Author: Jonathan Swift
About: Jackdaws
"The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter."
Author:
About: Proverbs
"A jackdaw among the muses."
Author: Proverb
About: Proverbs
"Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw."
Author: Proverb
About: Proverbs
"Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw."
Author: Proverb
About: Proverbs
"The crow is a pretty bird when the jackdaw is not present."
Author: Proverb
About: Proverbs
"General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming."
Author: William Bolitho
About: Society
Pages: 1
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