CROW

Related Subject: Birds

1. The black crow thinketh her own birds white.—GAVIN DOUGLAS, Aeneis
   

2. 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.—LONGFELLOW, Birds of Killingworth
   

3. Crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat them.—Proverb
   

4. Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves.—Proverb
   

5. We'll pluck a crow together.—SHAKESPEARE, The Comedy of Errors
   

6. The crow may bathe his coal-black wings in mire,
   And unperceiv'd fly with the filth away;
   But if the like the snow-white swan desire,
   The stain upon his silver down will stay.—SHAKESPEARE, The Rape of Lucrece