I called the wren as well as I could, and he came nearer and nearer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge of the Jungle] Reference

Nigel, my resident Carolina wren, is singing from his perch on the back fence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » The Most Fun You Can Have With A Whip] Reference

Mr. Wilson remarks that they are much more numerous in this country than the common wren is in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rural Hours] Reference

The wren is a beautiful little bird, much smaller than the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A First Year in Canterbury Settlement] Reference

In Ireland, people called wren-boys take to the roads, wearing masks or straw suits.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

In some places the same prohibition extends to the wren, which is popularly believed to be the wife of the robin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bygone Beliefs] Reference

The wren is the first track: the familiar hurried explosion transformed into a gentle, rich, rather thoughtful piece of music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online]

Everybody seems to agree in feeling that this is a kind of wren among the dabchicks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds] Reference

The twins specially noticed the cheep-cheep of the wren which is called Winterkoninkje (little winter king) in Holland.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic] Reference

The wren cocks his tail o'er his back by the stye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

A little wren had perched itself upon his shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

A robin and a wren, as they walked along one night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes] Reference

For the wild and hungry eagle, for the wren so small.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation] Reference

This saying protects the snug little home of the wren.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference

Only the sand-wren twitters from barren dawn till dark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference

Another bird that Robinson loved was the little house wren.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Robinson Crusoe for American Boys and Girls] Reference

A woman took a wren that had been attacked by her cat to the league.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexandria and Arlington animal watch] Reference

The whale enjoys death, and the wren her little fellows 'supper, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference

Henceforward a grudge was nursed against the wren, which has existed until now.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference

Hannah drove indignantly from the door the wren-boys, just as they were commencing.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

Jerry ushered the wren-like freshman into the room and offered her its most comfortable chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference

A wren had perched itself lovingly upon his shoulder, but Hibbert knew nothing of its presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

The wren pursued the same course with this as with the first; and so with the third and fourth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals] Reference

Amidst the crowd of dainty, white-gowned girls, she looked not unlike a dingy little brown wren.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference

The supervisor had given us a wren-box, made by a child in a more advanced class as manual work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools] Reference

The honeysuckle and the sweet briar crept up its walls; the wren and the phoebe bird built under its eaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five] Reference

Winter or summer it may be found among the apple trees and shade trees, a tiny black and white bird little bigger than a wren.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

Birds suitable for study by the pupils of Form II are the crow, flicker, downy woodpecker, blue-bird, chipping-sparrow, phoebe, wren.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

A religious silence prevailed, broken only by the occasional chirp of the wren, or the soft pattering of some smaller fourfooted race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Like a blight-eyed sprite the tiny marsh-wren flitted among the rushes, and the musk-rat built strange reed-castles at the water's edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Ago] Reference