31.   Ms. Timms blends rapture and disenchantment in a way that recalls those old cliches about why caged birds sing.

32.   Q. Do you think, as it has sometimes been suggested, that birds sing for the pure pleasure of it?

33.   Roosevelt hears a bird sing and goes into a detached, scholarly analysis of the bird, ending with his self-satisfied recollection that the bird is native to Spain.

34.   Some limit it to garden plots, telling the police that they are growing canary food to make the birds sing better.

35.   The birds would be singing, crocuses would be croaking and you could hear the infield chatter of departed heroes echoing all the way to the Kingdome.

36.   The sun is shining brightly, and birds are singing in the trees.

37.   Then the bird sang again, and the voice repeated the identification.

38.   There were fields of thick broad soil on one side, birds singing.

39.   Wherever the barge happened to be, the air seemed to be scented with lilacs, birds were singing and there was something interesting to look at.

40.   Birds sing after a storm.