Smoothing her skirt, she fluttered like a little brown wren.

No sign of Marc's hummingbird here; she saw herself as that little brown wren, plain and simple.

Others might not have seen the reality in the brown wren disguise, but his hummingbird was flying free now and no one could miss her beauty.

You sing as sweetly as a brown wren, songsmith!

That would be the fictitious Countess de Passy, a little brown wren until she spreads her wings.

"I'd always thought of myself as a common brown wren."

Joan was outwardly a sweet brown wren of a child, and by herself was even-tempered and biddable-to a point.

She was a plump brown wren of a woman with a cheerful face.

Goldsmith describes her true self as 'a plain brown wren'.

Gosh, your name suggests a little brown wren, and you are definitely no wren, young lady.