"The gannet is a great diver, plunging down into the sea from a considerable height, such as forty feet.". From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf] Reference
POISED with its wings spread out in the air, the gannet was the ideal subject for Javier Martin’s photograph. From Wordnik.com. [Hanging About For the Perfect Photograph | Impact Lab] Reference
The same mercy is by no means shown to the gannet. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
With good things shall greet o'er the bath of the gannet. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
The former is a species of gannet, and the latter a tern. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
My highlight bird of the day is a distant northern gannet. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
UK news reports on the annual gannet hunt off the northern Hebrides. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome to the 3 September edition] Reference
A solitary, wind-wearied gannet sleeps, head under wing, in the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference
The bird, a young northern gannet, had been turned from white to black. From Wordnik.com. [Scientists watch for environmental effects of Gulf of Mexico oil spill] Reference
The gannet at sea and the gannet on its nest are hard to grasp as the same bird. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
The gannet was really close to shore, as in actually over the beach at one point. From Wordnik.com. [crazy?] Reference
To see a gannet stealing string from a neighbor, or a skua clucking at its babies?. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
From behind him came only the flurry of wings as a startled gannet took to the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
Beneath every gannet that jumps from the water ten thousand fish are swimming still. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other groups released the pelicans and one northern gannet. From Wordnik.com. [Pelicans Rehabbed From Gulf Oil Spill Released Into Texas Wildlife Refuge] Reference
Mr Martin took his gannet photograph in July using a Canon EOS 1D Mark II with a Canon EF 100-400mm lens. From Wordnik.com. [Hanging About For the Perfect Photograph | Impact Lab] Reference
But this is not a sign that I got bored or the show lacked pizazz, I'm just a lazy gannet in general .......!. From Wordnik.com. [Razzle dazzle 'em] Reference
Bird Island, near Port Elizabeth, also has the only gannet population, estimated at 140 000 birds - east of Cape Town. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I saw the usual assortment of indistinguishable scoters, some oldsquaws, a small flock of brant, and a northern gannet. From Wordnik.com. [crazy?] Reference
But many on the platform thought of the gannet not as a harbinger of land, but rather as a lucky bird that knew how to fish. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
Of birds the species are not numerous; and of these no one kind, excepting perhaps the gannet, is exactly the same with those of. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook] Reference
Why not strike at communion out of the unseen, as the gannet strikes into the unseen underwater, or the kite from above at a mouse?. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
I turned to see him draping a dead gannet around his shoulders, a wing for each of his arms, its dagger head sticking up behind his. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
"Oh, my fairings, my fairings!" cried Cherry, swooping at them from her height with all the headlong thump of a gannet after its prey. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
Through my binoculars from a hundred yards away, I watched my son at the edge of the sea walking toward me wrapped in his dead gannet. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
As the white, gleaming gannet eyes fish in the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Right Royal] Reference
McRitchie told us, is a species of gannet, and the noddy a species of tern. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference
In size and colour they much resemble the ordinary gannet of our cold northern seas. From Wordnik.com. [Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899] Reference
Gaunt is sometimes a dialect form of gannet, used in Lincolnshire of the crested grebe. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
A stuffed gannet in a glass case surmounted it -- a present from 'Bias, who had shot the bird. From Wordnik.com. [Hocken and Hunken] Reference
That in itself is a memorable sight but consider the fact that the wingspan of a gannet is 6 feet across. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Of birds the species are not numerous; and of these no one kind, excepting perhaps the gannet, is exactly the same with those of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods] Reference
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