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Jenny wren   /dʒˈɛni rɛn/   Listen
Jenny wren

noun
1.
Any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects.  Synonym: wren.






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"Jenny wren" Quotes from Famous Books



... Peaceful so deucedly sick of the thing that he'll sell out cheap rather than fight the thing to a finish. Because this can be appealed, and taken up and up, and reopened because of some technical error—oh, as Jenny Wren ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower

... singing at the top of her voice, exulting over her work of destruction. Can you suppose it was any sense of honesty that prevented her using the bluebird's nest after having stolen her house? No, Jenny Wren had no principle. You would have laughed to see how scornfully she tossed out those dead leaves. Every thing went out of the nest pell-mell. The little monster! what could the poor bluebirds say or do? This bird evidently had no conscience, at least not a ...
— What the Animals Do and Say • Eliza Lee Follen

... roofs!" said Hazel. "The nicest thing in 'Mutual Friend' is Jenny Wren up on the Jew's roof, being dead. It seems like getting up over the world, and leaving it all covered ...
— Real Folks • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney



Words linked to "Jenny wren" :   cactus wren, Carolina wren, Salpinctes obsoletus, house wren, passerine, Troglodytidae, passeriform bird, rock wren, marsh wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, family Troglodytidae, Troglodytes troglodytes, winter wren, Troglodytes aedon, wren



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