They hovered like lazy birds and fired.

But the archetypal Seuss hero, many connoisseurs felt, was Horton, a conscientious pachyderm who was duped by a lazy bird into sitting on her egg.

The wind sighed softly through the fretted walls, lazy birds chirped in the elms outside, the gurgle of the brook spoke quietly from the spring.

"Nor I. Wonder if we're the only lazy birds."

B. Happy is a lazy irritable bird whose attitude makes it unlikely he can achieve world peace.

As you watch a buzzard quartering the ground, it's easy to think that they are very lazy birds.

It's amazing how a few lazy birds squawking can be so loud and annoying.

"The hummer is not a lazy bird, he's as busy as a bee," said Mr. Giffen, who expects to see his first group of hummers next week.

For one, it is a lazy bird, laying its eggs in another's nest, leaving the other one to care for it unknowingly.

No sign of strange or hostile creatures now; a few lazy birds, no more.