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That crow he told you about tasted like blue-jay because, would you believe, it WAS blue-jay!
Fun with Hominin Cranial Capacity Datasets (and Excel), Part 2 - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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That crow he told you about tasted like blue-jay because, would you believe, it WAS blue-jay!
Fun with Hominin Cranial Capacity Datasets (and Excel), Part 2 - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Well, a cat can; but you give a blue-jay a subject that calls for his reserve-powers, and where is your cat?
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Well, a cat can; but you give a blue-jay a subject that calls for his reserve-powers, and where is your cat?
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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A blue-jay far in the depths somewhere uttered its metallic shriek; a field sparrow, tremulous upon some distant twig, filled the silver shadows with its perfect song.
An American Tragedy 2004
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And the sharp metallic cry of a blue-jay speeding in the depths of these woods.
An American Tragedy 2004
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In the woods, close at hand, were heard the harsh cawing of the crow, the shrill scream of the blue-jay, and the garrulous chatter of many a little family of warm-furred, pine-cone-eating little red squirrels.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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At the same time the bold and saucy blue-jay pays us his first visit.
Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader John L. H��lshof
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Every spring Fanny Foster used to flit through Green Valley streets like a chattering blue-jay.
Green Valley Katharine Reynolds
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We in the United States can hear the rough voice of the blue-jay, or perhaps see the busy downy woodpecker tapping industriously at the suet we have hung in the tree for him.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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