jack-daw

He always ordered his horse at hall time, was the author of half the squibs, turned a tame jack-daw with a band on into the quadrangle to burlesque the master, and treated all proctors 'and other penalties with contempt.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

The money which she scraped together in this way, as secretly and greedily as a jack-daw, she hid in the attic.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

This will lead to all sorts of vain exhibitions until it will be with extreme difficulty that the public will be able to differentiate between a genuine peacock and an upstart jack-daw, masquerading in a merry widow hat.

The Autobiography of Methuselah John Kendrick Bangs 1892

The most difficult cases were successfully managed by him; he had even saved the life of Agatha's jack-daw when it had swallowed a thimble.

A Pair of Clogs Amy Walton 1873

Sept. 17th one of the hunters killed a bird of the Corvus genus and order of the pica & about the size of a jack-daw with a remarkable long tale. beautifully variagated. it note is not disagreeable though loudit is twait twait twait, twait; twait, twait twait, twait.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

“O yes, he will make the prettiest husband in the world; you may fly about yourself as wild as a lark, and keep him the whole time as tame as a jack-daw: and though he may complain of you to your friends, he will never have the courage to find fault to your face.

Cecilia 2008

'Tis but one poor fool the fewer when the greedy jack-daw dies. "

Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems. Edwin Arnold 1868

A jack-daw in Camnethan (Cambusnethan) learned this word from a guest in the house when he was upon his penitentials after hard drinking. "

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

"O yes, he will make the prettiest husband in the world; you may fly about yourself as wild as a lark, and keep him the whole time as tame as a jack-daw: and though he may complain of you to your friends, he will never have the courage to find fault to your face.

Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 Fanny Burney 1796