For two days the Steeds did little but stay at the hole, watching the splendid birds as they ate and bathed.

Sooner or later these splendid birds will turn up.

He withdrew his hands and gazed at the treetops, where the sun was caught like some kind of splendid bird.

It was no common hawk, merlin or kestrel, but a splendid bird, the hawk of princes, the peregrine.

Abruptly the splendid bird of prey took wing, soaring high above the sea, and a moment later it was back almost overhead.

'He's a splendid bird,' said Buffy-Bob; 'only you know he will get up a little too early.'

And there is an inlet beyond its mouth where I hope to show you a splendid bird.

The Golden Eagle is a splendid bird.

His big voice, powerful and tender, swept into the hush like a splendid bird.