seafowl

1 But the seafowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair; Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair.

2 But strong, long-breathed, and accustomed to such exercise, Halbert, even though encumbered with his sword, dived and rose like a seafowl, and swam across the lake in the northern direction.

3 But the seafowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair.

4 They told how seafowls’ pinions fail, As over Whitby’s towers they sail, And sinking down, with flutterings faint, They do their homage to the saint.”

5 Don’t you think it may be the wing of a seafowl?”

6 Shortly before dawn, Blake was roused by a pack of jackals, snarling and quarrelling over the half-dried seafowl.

7 The snow was wet underfoot and seafowl were swooping around.

8 She sat in the water like a seafowl, and sped away out of port as if she expected to attract the admiration of the immense throng on the wharf.

9 The Seabirds Count, a census of the UK and Ireland's main seafowl species, found that herring gulls were one of 11 groups that saw a drop in their population between 2002 and 2021.

10 On the leeward side of these rocks, in little hollows of the stone, he found a quantity of the eggs of some seafowl.

11 Few in the woods and fewer on the windy downs, here birds were abundant, not only on the building, where they were like seafowl congregated on a precipitous rock, but they were all about me.

12 Staring upward, Blake for the first time observed that the face of the cliff swarmed with seafowl.

13 The big piece of white duck stood out bravely against the blue sky, all the more conspicuous for the flocks of frightened seafowl which wheeled above and around it.

14 The boatmen ask fifteen shillings a day for a boat to sail round the Head, and give you opportunity to peer into caverns, or to shoot seafowl should your desire be for “sport.”

15 Even from where he stood Blake could hear the harsh clamor of the seafowl.

16 The dim loom of land saluted my eyes, and nearer still a precipice of rocks, by which the seafowl were screaming.

17 Sheila evidently expected to hear a flapping of seafowls' wings when they got near the margin, and looked all around for the first sudden dart from the banks.

18 This island, however, was the haunt of great numbers of seafowl which nested there, also of the turtles that I have mentioned, and of certain beasts like seals or otters.

19 October is a fine month to witness flights of sea ducks and other seafowl arriving for the winter, especially during weather with brisk winds from the North and Northeast.

20 The vast variety of seafowl screamed their utmost, and gave a wonderfully illustrative chorus to the lecture.

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