In the vivid green of a large oak tree a pair of orioles wove a wonderful pattern of living flame as they darted about among the boughs.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
I felt that this second reading was dangerous, but the thoughts fascinated me, and I read on, while orioles and mocking-birds held a carnival of music in the thickets around me, and a bright sun drove all the rose-tints from the sky.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens
At evening, flocks of parrakeets and great black orioles came to roost, courting the safety which they had come to associate with the clearings of human pioneers in the jungle.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe