"Pensile" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... more artifice in building their nests on account of the monkeys and snakes: some form their pensile nests in the shape of a purse, deep and open at top; others with a hole in the side; and others, still more cautious, with an entrance at the very bottom, forming their lodge near the summit. But the taylor-bird will not ever trust its nest ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... numerous gardens and a profusion of fruit for those that are half domesticated; orchards abounding in old trees with knotholes, admirably fitted for summer homes; elms on which to hang the graceful pensile nests—"castles in air," as Burroughs calls them; meadows in which the lark, vesper sparrow, and bobolink can disport; and forests stretching up into the mountains, wherein the shyest birds can enjoy all the seclusion they desire, content to sing unheard, as the flowers around them bloom unseen, ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
... I saw the lantern pensile formerly taken out of the temple of Apollo Palatinus at Thebes, and afterwards by Alexander the Great (carried to the town of Cymos). (The words in brackets have ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... crimson gem, The wild-bee murmurs on its breast, The blue-fly bends its pensile stem, Light o'er the ...
— Flowers and Flower-Gardens • David Lester Richardson
... now, and grasped the fact that this was another of the enemy making his way down to a big patch of pensile growth which would afford him cover, from whence he could direct his arrows either at his watcher or at those who had ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn |
