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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word birdlime? Here are some examples.
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Sentence Examples
| The figure is that of a bird caught by alighting upon a twig smeared with the sticky substance called birdlime. |
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| Oh, what unutterable corruption sticks, like birdlime, to all our motives, all our thoughts, all our words, all our actions! |
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| If she embraces falconry, and her sparrow hawk becomes caught in birdlime, she must carefully free each feather with fingers dipped in milk. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| From this it would appear, that fowlers stood behind trees, and used reeds tipped with birdlime, for the purpose of taking birds. |
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| Family pride was a kind of birdlime with old Dalton, and if he but touched, he could not leave it. |
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| Every day boys were to be seen walking along the roads and by the hedges and ditches, catching dragonflies with birdlime. |
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| It bears a very slimy white berry, of which birdlime may be made, whence its Latin name of viscus. |
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| The former consists of shavings from old documents, and the latter of birdlime for new converts. |
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| It is the birdlime with which the devil catches many a female and male soul. |
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| The flies seem an Egyptian plague, and get mortised into the oily butter, which holds them like birdlime. |
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| Upon inquiry, however, he found that no birdlime was to be had. |
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| Sometimes they catch them with a viscous birdlime that paralyses their movements. |
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| He described the merits of deadfalls, snares, steel traps, and birdlime. |
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| The hazels are all down, and the hollies pounded into birdlime. |
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| Birdlime is prepared from the tenacious milky juice of the peepul and the Banyan. |
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