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Sentence Examples Still, the last wren around here nested in the dryer vent, which was a mess to clean out. The Pomatorhinini include two groups of Asian babblers, scimitar babblers and wren babblers. Then a fairy wren blundered through the kitchen door, turning the cottage into a house trap for birds. Two wren babblers species, Napothera crassa and Kenopia striata are endemic to the island of Borneo. You hike through that tunnel of live oak, cool shade and wren song, then climb the stairs that top out on a high dune strewn with pennywort. Traditionally all over Ireland wren boys and girls go out disguised with false faces and boxes to sing for the wren. A California quail and a Bewick's wren are among four bird subspecies found only on Santa Catalina. I've got a jenny wren in the nesting box as well, so it must be my year this year. Down in the canyon, I often see the house wren, acorn and Nuttall's woodpeckers, wrentit, and, in winter, the yellow-rumped warbler. Among the thriving wildlife, native birds such as superb blue wren compete for a mate. The house wren is a small, sexually monomorphic and monochromatic migratory songbird that breeds throughout much of North America. On the second or third try, I got my glasses on a tiny wren half hidden in the grasses. Males in the cavity-nesting house wren frequently add arthropod cocoons to their nests during building, possibly as an ornamental cue for female choice. This is fortunate, because house wren nestlings have prodigious appetites. Over the last mile of rail trackbed there's a pond with alders, a wren squeaked in the scrub and then we walked a low embankment that has commendably been spared the plough. The original tradition involving hunting wrens stems from the belief of the ancient Irish that a wren betrayed St Stephen's hiding place to the Romans, who martyred him. Mrs. Leivers insists that Paul see this nest made by a jenny wren. If a chick of Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo hatches in a superb fairy wren nest and heaves out the rightful chicks, about 40 percent of mother fairy-wrens desert the nest. Nearby, a marsh wren chitters in a tree and a savannah sparrow settles in below it. Denmark is famed for its blue wren population, but also attracts many varieties of possum and kangaroo. Show More Sentences The cutest little blue wren eats voraciously of the insects and grubs that are silly enough to be in the same patch of ground he is. The tiny blue wren bird, for instance, has testes that account for a quarter of his body weight. Common birds include the owl, roadrunner, cactus wren, and various species of hawk. The St Kilda wren is a subspecies of wren whose range is confined to the islands whose name it bears. The Shetland wren, Fair Isle wren and Shetland starling are subspecies endemic to Shetland. There would have been no one to superintend him, except a squirrel perhaps or a jenny wren, at which he might have winked. Saguaro National Park boasts Many birds, including Gila woodpecker, gilded flicker, cactus wren, phainopepla, and elf and screech owls. As an example, on the street yesterday I found a Winter wren. Leahy offers nontechnical yet pithy descriptions of birds, from albatross to wren, and definitions of terms, from aggression to zygodactyl. Their son, wren, was born on March 9, 2010, shortly after noon. The survey work will focus on species such as Virginia and Sora rails, least and American bitterns, and marsh wren. In the deep woods, several songbirds nest in roots and on the ground near streams including Louisiana waterthrush and winter wren. Thousands of birds, including species of wren and goldcrests, are thought to have frozen to death during the heavy snowfall and freezing conditions. The Hackee is one of the liveliest and briskest of quadrupeds, and by reason of its quick and rapid movements, has not inaptly been compared to the wren. Meanwhile, the hermit thrush will pump its tail, and the tiny, winter wren with its comical, short, cocked tail, will sing an explosion of densely packed, musical notes. The best bug-eaters are the bushtit and the house wren, he said. Southern birds like the cardinal, titmouse, mockingbird, Carolina wren and red-bellied woodpecker have moved up here in great numbers during my lifetime. The Winter Wren is a tiny woodland bird whose song is as elaborate as its plumage is drab. Finally, Wren and I saluted and did an about-face, turning around to face the platoon. Now, while quoting John Milton and admiring Christopher Wren, he must face up to fire and plague and regicide, to the opium and slave trades. Show More Sentences Burlington, who took over the design from Wren, has almost denuded the building of ornament and left a regimented series of solids and voids. Wren replanned the entire city and supervised the rebuilding of 51 churches. The Wren family, obviously much favoured by the King, were staunch Royalists. One night just before Yuletide, the Lord of Misrule pursued the Wren Boys through London's cobbled streets. Its high-ceilinged rooms, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, are decorated and furnished with exquisite taste. The riverside terraced house where Christopher Wren used to live is now neighbour to the Cardinal Wolsey pub and a traffic-clogged roundabout. Apart from these birds, however, we found nothing else but a lone Winter Wren murmuring softly in the brush. The great hall, with its hammer-beam roof, has an exterior rebuilt, possibly by Wren, after destruction during the Commonwealth. Claire recalls sharing a silk-lined stateroom with two other Wrens, with two Wren officers installed next door. James had been an architectural assistant to Hawksmoor and later surveyor at St Pauls in succession to Christopher Wren. They cowered in the corridors of Parliament House when a hireling of John Wren whispered what might happen to them if they did not toe the line. Wren walked in, wiping his hands on his trousers and trying to pat down his ruffled hair. This Ash Wednesday text by Brian Wren invokes the Holy Spirit to help us through this time of penitence and self-examination. When one of them, the young Christopher Wren, went to Wadham in 1650, he was already interested in gnomonics. He said that the exceptional permission for the unusual ceremony had been granted because his grandmother had herself served as a Wren. The surveyorship of St Paul's was traditionally held by the Surveyor of the King's Works, but Wren was increasingly involved in overseeing the project for rebuilding. We lucked into spotting a tiny Winter Wren while visiting the East Pond. Timeshare sales representatives Wren and Brown are accused of dumping Hayden on a balcony at their apartment block during what police described as a blazing, drunken row. With every breath, Wren made a cooing noise, but Jones looked online and saw that lots of newborns make funny sounds. Wren rebuilt this church 15 years after the Great Fire, and later renovations have not altered its 17th-century appearance. Show More Sentences Truth to tell, most of the buildings that make up the Edwardian Wrenaissance have little to do with Wren. The South Carolina quarter depicts the Carolina Wren, the state bird, and the Yellow Jessamine, the state flower and the state Palmetto tree. Immediately Wren recognised this as a better hypothesis than his own and De corpore saturni was never published. The longer Reboots are dead, the stronger and less human they are, and Wren has the highest number of anyone. The Wren family estate was at The Old Court House in the area of Hampton Court. Wren was inspired in the design by studying engravings of Pietro da Cortona's Baroque facade of Santa Maria della Pace in Rome. These were made for local labels like Sain and Wren, for whom he was one of the first artistes to record. Paul in Blandford Forum, and St George's Church on the Isle of Portland, which has a steeple and tower inspired by the works of Christopher Wren. Architects of the 18th century could not forget Wren, but they could not forgive some elements in his work they deemed unconventional. In 1682, Wren advised that the original statues of the King's Beasts on St George's Chapel, Windsor be removed. The cathedral that Wren started to build bears only a slight resemblance to the Warrant Design. By 1672, however, this design seemed too modest, and Wren met his critics by producing a design of spectacular grandeur. In 1669, the King's Surveyor of Works died and Wren was promptly installed. Wren was most likely at Oxford at the time, but the news, so fantastically relevant to his future, drew him at once to London. By this time, Wren had mastered and thoroughly understood the principles of architecture. It was a problem posed by Wren that serves as an ultimate source to the conception of Newton's Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis. As Savilian Professor, Wren studied mechanics thoroughly, especially elastic collisions and pendulum motions. A year into Wren's appointment as a Savilian Professor in Oxford, the Royal Society was created and Wren became an active member. The addition of reinforcing tie beams above the crossing, designed by Christopher Wren in 1668, arrested further deformation. Wadham College, founded in 1610, was the undergraduate college of Sir Christopher Wren. Show More Sentences It was replaced by a new structure designed by Christopher Wren and renamed the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The first building, which became known as the Old Ashmolean, is sometimes attributed to Sir Christopher Wren or Thomas Wood. The present cathedral, dating from the late 17th century, was designed in the English Baroque style by Sir Christopher Wren. Concurrent with designing St Paul's, Wren was engaged in the production of his five Tracts on Architecture. Wren planned to replace the dilapidated tower with a dome, using the existing structure as a scaffold. The foundations settled as the building progressed, and Wren made structural changes in response. These were not a classical feature and were one of the first elements Wren changed. During the extensive period of design and rationalisation Wren employed from 1684 Nicholas Hawksmoor as his principal assistant. In the finished structure, Wren creates a diversity and appearance of strength by placing niches between the columns in every fourth opening. On 25 February 1723 a servant who tried to awaken Wren from his nap found that he had died. In the Rock Wren, the W chromosome is metacentric, whereas that of the Canyon Wren appears to be telocentric. And she followed up that success when scoring by two lengths from Rock Wren at Leicester at the end of last year. Wren faced the additional challenge of incorporating towers into the design, as had been planned at St Peter's Basilica. An intellectual of considerable ability, he is said to have been the figure who introduced Wren to arithmetic and geometry. Wren submitted his plans for rebuilding the city to King Charles II, although they were never adopted. I hear other birds nearby, a goldfinch, a persistent Carolina Wren, something stirring in a bush. Nice and Thomas reported similar results in their observations of a single Carolina Wren nest in Arkansas. It was probably around this time that Wren was drawn into redesigning a battered St Paul's Cathedral. The Lord Brouncker, Mr Boyle, Mr Bruce, Sir Robert Moray, Sir Paule Neile, Dr Wilkins, Dr Goddard, Dr Petty, Mr Ball, Mr Rooke, Mr Wren, Mr Hill. The Southern House Wren inhabits the austral extreme of Chile and Argentina. Show More Sentences We present the first quantitative assessment of winter site fidelity for House Wren, Gray Catbird, and Orange-crowned Warbler. Occurrence and demography of mites of Tree Swallow, House Wren, and Eastern Bluebird nests. However, Wren became closely associated with John Wilkins, the Warden of Wadham. On 25 June 1650, Wren entered Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied Latin and the works of Aristotle. It was probably through Holder that Wren met Sir Charles Scarburgh whom Wren assisted in his anatomical studies. The Wren Building, the main building at the College of William and Mary, Virginia, is attributed to Wren. Other notable buildings by Wren include the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and the south front of Hampton Court Palace. Apart from Wren and Evelyn, it is known that Robert Hooke, Valentine Knight, and Richard Newcourt proposed rebuilding plans. Hardy, Oliver Heaviside, Andrew Wiles, Francis Crick, Joseph Lister, Christopher Wren and Richard Dawkins. Among the reasons, Newton recalled that the idea had been discussed with Sir Christopher Wren previous to Hooke's 1679 letter. He fostered political and religious tolerance and drew talented minds to the college, including Christopher Wren. Hooke's collaboration with Christopher Wren also included St Paul's Cathedral, whose dome uses a method of construction conceived by Hooke. Hooke often met Christopher Wren, with whom he shared many interests, and had a lasting friendship with John Aubrey. It did not help that the first life of Wren, Parentalis, was written by Wren's son, and tended to exaggerate Wren's work over all others. A major renovation project undertaken by Christopher Wren in the late 17th century completely redesigned the building's interior. At one time Wren was credited with the design of the King's House at Newmarket, Suffolk. Wren also studied and improved the microscope and telescope at this time. Sir Christopher Wren presided over the genesis of the English Baroque manner, which differed from the continental models by clarity of design and subtle taste for classicism. Following the Great Fire of London, Wren rebuilt fifty three churches, where Baroque aesthetics are apparent primarily in dynamic structure and multiple changing views. Edward Strong later claimed it was laid by his elder brother, Thomas Strong, one of the two master stonemasons appointed by Wren at the beginning of the work. Show More Sentences Betfair's place markets continue to throw up big-priced winners and eventual runner-up Rock Wren, 100-1 on course, was matched at 65 for the frame pre-race. For convenience Wren also leased a house on St James's Street in London. It tells the story of a Superb Blue Wren who has escaped from a bush fire and finds himself alone in a strange forest, without his family or his home. Where the tradition is maintained, a fake Wren is now used, but the tradition lives on in the Irish Gaelic name La an Dreoilin, or Day of the Wrens. This equation can be seen clearly in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, in a glass case in which Newton's manuscript is open to the relevant page. By the end of l942 Wren officers were permitted to enrol on the meteorological course at RNC Greenwich, after which they were employed as fully qualified forecasters. Drop-in facilities are also available at Minerva Mill Innovation Centre in Alcester, WREN Telecottage at Stoneleigh and at Tower Court in Foleshill Road, Coventry. Newby Hall was also created during this period by Christopher Wren. This is not to say that a hallmark Wren steeple was universally applied. In designing St Paul's, Christopher Wren had to meet many challenges. Wren was part of a brilliant group of experimental scientists at Oxford in the 1650s, the Oxford Philosophical Club, which included Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke. However, an enormous stroke of bad luck meant that the building was covered in wooden scaffolding, undergoing piecemeal restoration by a relatively unknown Christopher Wren. The philanthropic concerns underlying Chelsea turned to the navy, and Wren was among those who in 1693 discussed a permanent institution on this site. In 1666 the Great Fire of London gutted the City of London but it was rebuilt shortly afterwards with many significant buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren. When Wren was a student at Oxford, he became familiar with Vitruvius' De architectura and absorbed intuitively the fundamentals of architectural design. Five of 12 Yellow Warblers in our study sat in their nests in response to the House Wren model and in only one case did the female chip immediately prior to entering the nest. Wren did not pursue his work on architectural design as actively as he had before the 1690s, although he still played important roles in a number of royal commissions. Examples from Classical Literature Here Paddy was questioned why he considered the wren as cunning a baste as the fox. It adds a new touch of interest to the forbidding cactus to know that the cactus wren builds her nest between its leaves. The common wren and the chipping sparrow, for instance, have a flight like that of a young bird. The house wren will carry a twig three inches long through a hole of half that diameter. Its freely uttered song is a loud, clear two-syllabled whistle, in tone like the voice of the Carolina wren or Cardinal. The Carolina wren is a bird of the woods, whose loud, musical whistles are among the most conspicuous of southern bird notes. What can be more unsuitable, untractable, for a nest in a hole or cavity than the twigs the house wren uses? For instance, all the wrens except our house wren seem to use about the best material at hand for their nests. But however angelic the voice of the house wren, its temper can put to flight even the English sparrow. This is a good fly throughout a clear day, used as a dropper with the foregoing fly, and wren tail. The wren is not the only bird that was sacrificially eaten in France, judging from the chants that are recorded. Not even the little house wren has adapted itself so quickly to civilised men's homes, as the swift and purple martin. One would not expect to find a wheatear in a wood, or a wren in a reed-bed. There was some scant compensation in the presence of the winter wren one winter in the Sunflower State. I have never seen an account of a house wren taking up his abode in another bird's nest. The barn swallow and house wren feather their nests at the expense of the hens and geese. A similar but darker and browner species than the rock wren. But his pluckiest and most inveterate enemy is the house wren. He will not even tolerate a house wren in the vicinity of his nest. It was as if someone gave a gray wren a thimbleful of champagne. Show More Sentences The wren, after satisfying its animosity, returned to the beam. A little, dusky-coloured wren hops in a skulking manner among the entangled mass of the fallen and decaying trunks. His voice is sweeter than honey from the locust, and goes into the ear thrilling like the song of a wren. The chaffinch, greenfinch, hedge-sparrow, and wren are less common. All through the long dark winter the wren and titlark sing cheerfully. The tomtit, the wren, and the troglodyte mingle their voices. Else would I call it the twitter of a wren that has flown over. You cannot make a wren out of a redbird, even if you are the God of both. I felt like a wren that escapes from the hawk when the rogue laid me down. The next morning Rusty Wren helped his wife so spryly that long before midday the house-cleaning was finished. Browne's contemporary, Dean Wren, seems sadly to have misunderstood the fructification of the Oak. This is what your loving Jenny Wren calls the best time in the day and night,' said the person of the house. The morning-glory heard this, and she longed to let the little Wren see her face. The allusion is to Sir Christopher Wren, who died in 1723, in his ninety-first year. Now, Long Bill Wren had suddenly made up his mind that he wouldn't take a mud bath, after all. The subspecies cahooni and compositus of the Brown-throated Wren seem to intergrade in the southern part of the State. Wren also had an anemometer, but we have no description of it. Wren was in an open carriage with his son James, a lad of thirteen. The question has been raised whether Wren was a Freemason or not. The venue in White Friars Street, city centre received the funding from WREN because they are within 10 miles of a landfill site. Find more words! 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