When he had just got to the top, and the owl perceived that he had designs on her, and was also bewildered by the crowd and the shouting, and knew not how to escape, she rolled her eyes, ruffled her feathers, flapped her wings, snapped her beak, and cried, "Tuwhit, tuwhoo," in a harsh voice.
" and ran with open beak at the cock.
Instantly a fiery bird arose from it, and was about to fly away, but the young man's brother, the eagle, who was passing between the clouds, swooped down, hunted it away to the sea, and struck it with his beak until, in its extremity, it let the egg fall.
Every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on it, and when the whole mountain is worn away by this, then the first second of eternity will be over.
When she had sat there for a while, a white dove came flying to her with a little golden key in its beak.
On this an old duck which was hidden among the reeds, began to scream loudly, and swam to him with open beak, and begged him urgently to spare her dear children.
" Soon afterwards the queen arrived with some food in her beak, and the lord king came too, and they began to feed their young ones.
Look, she cried and laughed, he has a chin like a thrush's beak.
But the duck swam quickly to her, seized her head in its beak and drew her into the water, and there the old witch had to drown.
" Then the stork took the floor and rattled from his beak, "There are indeed beings between fish and birds.
The birds screamed as loud as they could, and one of the greatest of them hacked him with its beak over the eye so that the blood ran down, and it was at first thought the eye had been destroyed; but it had not been injured after all.
He clapped with his beak, and the Mother-stork clapped with hers.
And over the buried town fly the birds of heaven, the small and the great; they twitter and they sing as best they may, each bird with his beak.
Its short, strong beak was open, ready to bite, and on its red throat were short feathers, like stubble.
I am certainly no judge of your singing so I keep my beak shut, which is better than talking nonsense, as others do.
" And then the stork lifted the little girl out of the flower-cup, flew to the castle, picked a hole with his beak in the bladder-covered, window, and laid the beautiful child in the bosom of the Viking's wife.
As she was flying upon the roost, she plucked herself with her beak, and a little feather came out.
On the car of Thespis he sat in the guise of a chattering raven, and flapped his black wings, smeared with the lees of wine; over the sounding harp of Iceland swept the swan's red beak; on Shakspeare's shoulder he sat in the guise of Odin's raven, and whispered in the poet's ear "Immortality!
"It's only a sparrow," they said; they did not, however, let her go, but took her home with them, and every time she cried they hit her on the beak.
"See, children, that is the way of the world," said the mother duck, whetting her beak, for she would have liked the eel's head herself.
