The bullfinch is a native of the northern countries of Europe, occurring in Italy and other southern parts only as a winter visitor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

The bullfinch is a homely little bird, almost as domestic as the robin; they just stay here, isn't that it? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Teresa] Reference

I was leaving my children, my bullfinch, my parrot, my.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference

I was niece to a piping bullfinch, what would you care?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference

He shall have the little bullfinch in the shop, and all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference

Ah, merciful powers, I have forgotten to feed my bullfinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [A House of Gentlefolk] Reference

'It was a Pyrrhula, a bullfinch,' said Culain and Thuro jumped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost King]

An old Irishman was whistling to a blind bullfinch in a tiny cage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

‘So do I,’ piped the other like a rather more melancholy bullfinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference

He would be idolised -- a very nice situation, indeed, for a bullfinch!.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 1] Reference

And I — wanted to know very much — I did so long to have a bullfinch!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Greenwood Tree] Reference

The bullfinch had gone far, but the draft seemed to have riveted the persuasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

Introduction of exotic tree species as a threat to the azores bullfinch population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Azores temperate mixed forests] Reference

‘I wish you lived here, Miss Swancourt,’ piped one like a melancholy bullfinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference

These ruminations were interrupted by a call down stairs to see a learned bullfinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

Although it infuriated him to see a bullfinch pulling buds off the prunus tree, he would not interfere with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl In A Swing]

There's a pretty little bullfinch, and surely that's a tree-creeper on your apple tree -- not many of them about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every living thing]

The cage is fixed to a shallow lacquer tray, and is the nicest place you can imagine for a whistling bullfinch to live in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House in Good Taste] Reference

That's so like you, mother! 'laughed Jerry, as he softly tickled the head of the bullfinch he had retained as a gift for Miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference

He was "Dicky Chips:" -- the funniest, quaintest, most intelligent, and most amusing little bullfinch you ever clapped eyes on.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 1] Reference

At night, when she returned to her own room from the play, she saw the little bullfinch, reposing in a superb cage, upon her table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

White and black varieties are occasionally met with; the latter are often produced by feeding the bullfinch exclusively on hempseed, when its plumage gradually changes to black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

"Whoop!" yelled Grady, as they tore through a bullfinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X)] Reference

I am glad to hear reports about the ferocious female bullfinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

"The piping bullfinch," said Mary, without an instant's hesitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pair of Clogs] Reference

And I-- wanted to know very much -- I did so long to have a bullfinch!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school] Reference

The Alpe, or bullfinch, mentioned in the above lines, also survives as a surname.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

A lark and bullfinch followed, -- friends, I suppose; and then the bride and bridegroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc.] Reference

When these hedges are allowed to grow in a natural manner, they take the form of a bullfinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.] Reference

A bullfinch pipes now and then further up the hedge where the brambles and thorns are thickest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

We do have certain kinds of finch visit - greenfinches, chaffinches, and not long ago a very striking bullfinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference

It begins precisely at six in the evening, and consists of a blackbird, a thrush, a robin redbreast and a bullfinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chelsea The Fascination of London] Reference

I will conclude with a pretty and affecting little story of a piping bullfinch that once belonged to Sir William Parsons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mamma's Stories about Birds] Reference

Cham of Tartary themselves, contended to load me with gifts -- doth he think I am to abide in this old castle like a bullfinch in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quentin Durward] Reference

Not only does the great swan think, but so does your parrot, and your piping bullfinch, and the little canary that hops on your thumb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North] Reference

Occasionally she whistled at her task -- the clear, soft, melodious whistle of a bullfinch -- carolling some light, ephemeral air from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Athalie] Reference