I remember looking at this frail, sparrow-like woman and thinking she was very ill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-18] Reference

She was a plump sparrow-like girl, who would not have looked much in the procession, but had a sweet strong voice and perfect pitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise Singer]

The sparrow-like bird behind the feeder in your picture looks to me to be a male house finch, based on the reddish tones around the throat blending into the mottled tan on the breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Sunday Talking Head Thread] Reference

The males of these birds are, as a rule, gorgeously attired in brilliant colours, some having long flowing tail-feathers during the nuptial season, while in the winter their showy dress is replaced by one of sparrow-like sombreness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

No sparrow-like screaming, no dancing about, no melodramatic gesticulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the Bush] Reference

Models took to the hummingbird-patterned ramp hopping timidly, almost sparrow-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

Mr. Kirby was a little man, as I have said, with a sparrow-like kind of air; and Doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oddsfish!] Reference

By night the note is, or appears to be, less sparrow-like, or perhaps the silence of night improves it to the ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round About a Great Estate] Reference

During our morning's ascent, we had met no sign of animal life, except the small sparrow-like bird already mentioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources] Reference

"Poor old Ponty, too bad he couldn't come," cried Mr. Newlyn, pecking, sparrow-like, at a scrap of food on his plate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Halo] Reference

Still the peculiar sparrow-like note, the ringing chirp, came continually from their throats; the warm sultry day delighted them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round About a Great Estate] Reference

She was a diminutive, sparrow-like creature, with a natural taste for sick-rooms and death-beds, and an inexhaustible fund of gossip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia] Reference

Two or three little brown, sparrow-like birds twittered in the bushes near, and looked askance, as if they would question the man's right to walk there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers] Reference

He cocked his sparrow-like head, scanned the offending apartment, and terminated his survey by resting his eyes on Mrs. Westmore's charming petulant face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fruit of the Tree] Reference

"You must give me some hint as to the destination of the gift," she declared, turning upon him with a sparrow-like motion of the head and a significant smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Warwick] Reference

Simultaneously with this last announcement, Mr Thos Knapp himself appeared in the doorway, where he stood looking in on them with bright, sharp, sparrow-like eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystery Mile]

(Heb. tzippor, from a root signifying to "chirp" or "twitter," which appears to be a phonetic representation of the call-note of any passerine (sparrow-like) bird).    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

He has had the honour to see some rare birds in the area, such as the Black-necked stilt and the White-faced ibis and even a Dickcissel, a sparrow-like bird that normally resides in Texas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kootenay Rockies - News]

The Missouri skylark sings while soaring above the great plateaus so high in the air that it is impossible to see the bird; and this habit of singing while soaring it shares with some sparrow-like birds that are often found in company with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Range] Reference

Meanwhile a tall, dour man in a straw hat is rolling up a shirt-sleeve, and alternately bending and stretching a long arm, whilst a lithe, white-headed young stripling is hopping, sparrow-like, from one onlooker to another, and exclaiming in suppressed, cautious tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Russia] Reference

The physical and mental restlessness, which is suggested by the epithet "sparrow-like," and which was noted by others as characteristic of Goethe at this period, could not fail to irritate one like Herder, naturally grave, sobered by hard experience, and then suffering from a painful and serious ailment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Goethe] Reference

Enlarged my trail from its previously modest sparrow-like proportions into an elephant-sized paw print of worrying dimensions, that’s what.    From Wordnik.com.  [petite 2.0] Reference

After buying a pair of buntings -- small, sparrow-like birds (the pic's original title.    From Wordnik.com.  [Variety.com] Reference

In all passages except two it is rendered by the Authorized Version indifferently "bird" or "fowl." and denotes any small bird, both of the sparrow-like species and such as the starling, chaffinch, greenfinch, linnet, goldfinch, corn-bunting, pipits, blackbird, song-thrush, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference