Crows

"It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive."

"Crows are the central bird in many mythologies. The crow is at every extreme, lives on every piece of land on earth, the most intelligent bird."

"Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail."

""As the crow flies"—a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line."

"So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows."

"Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood."

"The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended."

"As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home."

"If you do not protect your own honor, the crows will peck at your flesh."

"To shoot at crows is powder flung away."

"Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of pain, two black crows flew out of his mouth and took wing from the room."