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I give thee, Bird, advice; If thou wouldst save thy skin alive, Let me not warn thee twice, "Grack-grack-grack-grack-grack-grack— Go on and ne'er look back!"

From A Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle by Widdemer, Margaret

It was difficult to trace what it was; something all in a heap, brown naked skin; alive, as might be known by the heaving breathing.

From Fanny, the Flower-Girl, or, Honesty Rewarded by Bunbury, Selina