As the sun rises the chaffinch utters his bold challenge on the tree; the notes are so rapid that they seem to come all at once.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
He even remembered something about an official communication which he had opened a day or two before, and hastily dropped in order to fling a book at a strange cat that had come into the garden, and was cowering in wait for a chaffinch.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
I was astonished to see him back; so, apparently, was the chaffinch.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson