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Meanings of redbreast in inglês

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pisco de peito ruivo
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Small Old World songbird with a reddish breast.

        pisco de peito ruivo
        Usage of redbreast in inglês
        1
        Except the wintry notes of the redbreast, nature herself is mute.
        Our Village
        2
        Also, I appreciate you saying I would be a robin, robin, robin redbreast.
        Wired
        3
        So the gay robin redbreast came and sang with the lark.
        Stories of Birds
        4
        A labourer, going along a lane, met a little robin redbreast.
        Chatterbox, 1905.
        5
        She said she hoped that largest robin redbreast would get drunk and tumble down.
        Beulah
        6
        The English robin is not the bird we call robin redbreast in the United States.
        Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
        7
        It is more commonly known to us as the robin (redbreast).
        The Irish Times
        8
        An' syne ye hear a throstle or a redbreast sing an' a saucy blackbird whustle.
        Greyfriars Bobby
        9
        The Samoans were just a bit too good - and Monsieur Robin was certainly no redbreast.
        The Guardian
        10
        Our bird has the softer voice, but the English redbreast is much the more skilled musician.
        Wake-Robin
        11
        The robin here is not the Scottish redbreast, being much larger and with a different note.
        The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
        12
        One day little Luke heard Old John the Indian speak of redbreast as Little Brother O-pee-chee.
        The Magic Speech Flower / or Little Luke and His Animal Friends
        13
        Here are two pictures of your own redbreast, out of the two best modern works on ornithology.
        Love's Meinie: Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
        14
        No lark or linnet or redbreast or mocking-bird could live, much less warble, in those carbonic times.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 / A Magaz...
        15
        And the poor girl, with a heavy heart, took the body of the redbreast up to her husband.
        The Brown Fairy Book
        16
        A robin redbreast came as bold as could be and lit upon the coffin and began to sing.
        Allan Quatermain
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