Crow. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Crow


The impudent crow with full throat invites the rain, and solitary stalks by herself on the dry sand. Davidson’s Virgil.—(Buckley) Georgics, Book I. p. 45.	1
If the old shower-foretelling crow Croak not her boding note in vain, To-morrow’s eastern storm shall strow The woods with leaves, with weeds the main. Francis Horace.—Book III. Ode XVII. Line 9.	2
It warn’t for nothing that the raven was croaking on my left hand. Riley’s Plautus.—Vol. I. The Aulularia, Act IV. Scene 3.	3
That raven on the left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak) Bodes me no good. Gay.—Fable XXXVII. Farmer’s Wife and the Raven.	4