The detective is the direct descendant of the old "Bow Street runners" or "Robin Redbreasts" - so styled from their scarlet waistcoats - officers in attendance upon the old-fashioned police offices and despatched by the sitting magistrates to follow up any very serious crime in the interests of the public or at the urgent request of private persons. [Please select]
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"Here, too [at Florence] we saw often, bunches and baskets of small birds, chiefly redbreasts, hawked through the streets." [Please select]
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He lived to see many Christmas trees "at home," in that old country where the robins are redbreasts, and sing in winter. [Please select]
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The number of Redstarts (both kinds), Redbreasts Fly-catchers and Nightingales taken in traps is inconceivable. [Please select]
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Our robin redbreasts are in the fields in summer, and do not perch on boughs opposite speckled thrushes when they can get abundance of worms and flies among the barley. [Please select]
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That feeling has been transferred to the externally slightly similar "Robin Redbreasts" of this country, though they are not at all related to the British Robins. [Please select]
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