It wasn't newspaper; it was a dead sparrow.

A few early autumn leaves floated on the water's scummy surface, along with a dead sparrow.

Victor demonstrates this by successfully bringing a dead sparrow back to life.

As to how it came about, Ms. Messager, who lives outside Paris, said later: "I was walking home one day when I trod on a dead sparrow.

Three days after her brother leaves for Vietnam, a tornado strikes, flinging its debris of broken glass into her dining room and a dead sparrow onto her coffee table.

For Kelly, fertility and loyalty are inseparable from predation and death, as when "the dead sparrow's / Brother sticks its head in the mouth of the lion."

On the first day of winter, a month or so after the birthday party, Stella opened the back door to get stove wood and discovered a dead sparrow on the back stoop.

Shuddering, pulling her coat closer, she threw the dead sparrow in the old rusty incinerator as she went by it.

A dead sparrow lay in her lap.

A dead sparrow is nestled into layers of bridal tulle in her "Cloud Quilt," which is also $18,000.