bird-fancier

Before the slow-food push, Mr. Reese had raised his flock largely as a passion project, and he won numerous awards at bird-fancier competitions.

These Birds Aren't Spring Chickens, But People Are Gobbling Them Up Geoffrey A. Fowler 2011

The human being is regarded with the eye of a dog — or bird-fancier, or at best of a slave-owner; the higher or human qualities are left out.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

But Shakespeare has no peculiarity, no importunate topic; but all is duly given; no veins, no curiosities; no cow-painter, no bird-fancier, no mannerist is he: he has no discoverable egotism: the great he tells greatly; the small subordinately.

Representative Men 2006

Part of the third storey was occupied by a bird-fancier; and between him and the Fursts above waged perpetual war, one of those petty, unending wars that can only arise and be kept up when, as here, such heterogeneous elements are forced to live side by side, under one roof.

Maurice Guest 2003

The kestrel's eggs had not been broken, strange to say, and formed the nucleus of Arthur's collection, at which Martin worked heart and soul, and introduced Arthur to Howlett the bird-fancier, and instructed him in the rudiments of the art of stuffing.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

Sea-gulls are not often met with as domestic pets; but the great bird-fancier Morris, in his work on natural history, mentions a tame sea-gull which struck up a great friendship with a terrier which spent a great part of its time in the garden where the gull was kept.

Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various

I have pointed out the distinguishing characteristics of the itinerant bird-fancier; and, should you never have seen him before, you will be able at once to recognise him in case of your possibly encountering him in the future.

She and I, Volume 1

There are well-defined deviations, but no sensible improvements, except to the eye of the bird-fancier.

Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

Her father complicated the matter by marrying suddenly a Parisian of the lower classes, a bird-fancier named Sophie Delaborde.

Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

Her father complicated the matter by marrying suddenly a Parisian of the lower classes, a bird-fancier named Sophie Delaborde.

Famous Affinities of History — Volume 4 Lyndon Orr