...give her another day in which to make up her mind to go with him peaceably, and again he concluded that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush. Brewster stood gloomily on the outside of the excited group glowering upon the ugly suitor. Cooler...

...annexation, and as the Germans appealed to their weakest side, it is no wonder that they concluded that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush. Commander Moore, in the Goshawk, visited the Cameroons River on July 10 and had a palaver with King...

...Waffington solely in her interest. Then the flippant and less studious ones of the college had told her, that "a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush," hence it was beginning to lead her into the disposition of dismissing uncertainties from her mind....

...capturing new industries. Why this should be so is rather difficult of ascertainment. It would seem that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, even in the industrial world; but if newspaper reports are to be credited many commercial organizations...

...recommended the acceptance of £30,000,000 instead of pressing for a larger contribution on the plea that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush. His successor at the Colonial Office preached patience, and he himself said on May 24 that it was most...

...should be unable to travel the next day, as the King of Saxony was then expected in Antwerp. Remembering that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, I thereupon decided to go on to Bapaume. A car was to be placed at my disposal whenever I wanted it....

...of Potsdam now stands. There they stuck their stakes, first holding a council of war, and deciding that "A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush." 8 My mother was a daughter of John Hopkins, who was also a soldier in the Revolutionary War. She was...

...tanager paused in a birch, the sunshine falling on his bright body through the translucent leaves. VII These and other winged visitants we have, in wavering...sense of kinship with them, and yet, — the distances ! Wordsworth's " Stay near me — do not take thy flight ! A little longer stay in sight ! " in his...

...him ; and then Patrick bitterly repented his folly in not attending to his wife, when she told him that "a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush." But did all the other resources of Patrick Mahoney fail ? They did. His labour had brought him in little,...

...myself and not to spend my life jotting down other men's doings." The judge argued against this, deeming that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush. There were already more lawyers than there was any need of, and not half work enough for them, he said....