Crow Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Crow


To shoot at crows is powder flung away. Gay. Ep. IV. Last line.	1
Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of pain, two black crows flew out of his mouth and took wing from the room. Gesta Romanorum—Tale XLV.	2
Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail. Longfellow—Tales of a Wayside Inn. The Poet’s Tale. Birds of Killingworth. St. 19.	3
Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 49.	4
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended. Merchant of Venice. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 102.	5
As the many-winter’d crow that leads the clanging rookery home. Tennyson—Locksley Hall. St. 34.	6