...conquest, but which unhappily the beams of the morning dispelled. Others on the contrary began to think that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, and therefore lost no time in disposing of their rights at the best market they could find. Strange...

...claim on him for the wife of another boy that I owned, named Joe. I was glad to do this, as I thought that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, and mine had certainly gone to the bushes. I traded with a man by the name of Willis, and I suppose...

...drama of mankind. The prodigal, doubtless, being properly instructed in error, had always understood that "a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush"; and hearing the syren songs in the "bush" of the "far country" (it's always a long journey), he sets...

...direction. Thomson's caribou were young and lean but the lunch of sealskin made me incline to the view that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, so I went after and shot them. While Thomsen was doing the skinning I went in search of the bulls but...

...move the wisdom of which, with the campaign so far advanced, was doubtful. It looked as if he thought that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush. On the whole the prospect for a successful campaign in 1832 was not at all good. Clay himself was well...

...move the wisdom of which, with the campaign so far advanced, was doubtful. It looked as if he thought that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush. On the whole the prospect for a successful campaign in 1832 was not at all good. Clay himself was well...

...with strong opposition. Forty thousand francs had already accumulated and to the workers it seemed that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush. Persuasion failed, but when Leclaire suggested that future payments into the funds of the society could...

...mineral which was not demonstrably so, because we were trying to hold those sections. The theory was that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush. A section in the place limits was worth an indefinite number of rights in a rapidly diminishing indemnity...

...hundred and fifty guineas." "Yes; Mr. Bird was frank enough to tell him so; but what did Papa say? He said that 'a Bird in the hand was worth two in the bush' and closed at once. Poor old dear — I like to think he's got a little pocketmoney again. It was your...

...Mrs. Huggins was planning to ask two thousand dollars for it. Skipson thereupon advised Mrs. Huggins that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, and drew from his pocket the neat package of hundred dollar bills. He spread the fifteen hundred dollars...