bird-nest

It was more like a huge bird-nest than anything else, though it was a thousand times cruder in the weaving than any bird-nest.

CHAPTER IV 2010

But it had one feature that I have never seen attached to any bird-nest, namely, a roof.

CHAPTER IV 2010

On the first page there was like a photograph of a bird-nest full of eggs.

Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

Defying the conservation laws, private owners and developers make unauthorized alterations, sometimes knocking buildings down entirely, to cash in on mass tourism or alternative industries like lucrative bird-nest production.

The Memory Keepers 2008

A wisp of smoke drifted from a little pile of ashes in a bird-nest of mud and woven grass on an older woman's head.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

Little Flash, weighed down by his bird-nest hairdo, deranged leprechaun in green coveralls and boots, rolling about on a damaged pelvis, might have embellished.

Just a Corpse at Twilight Van de Wetering, Janwillem, 1931- 1994

It was more like a huge bird-nest than anything else, though it was a thousand times cruder in the weaving than any bird-nest.

Chapter IV 1906

But it had one feature that I have never seen attached to any bird-nest, namely, a roof.

Chapter IV 1906

When he was almost midway of the bridge the big wires that held it began to shriek out of the old posts that held them -- though I had not touched them -- and it seemed many years that passed while the whole of it dangled in the air like a bird-nest in a storm; and the creek down below laughed at that big coward.

The Port of Missing Men Meredith Nicholson 1906

Long had she lingered round a bird-nest to leave therein the gaudy wing of a butterfly.

Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey 1905