The cormorant is a shore bird often effected by oil spills. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
The cormorant is a common visitor to our beach staging area. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Black Sea: Synopsis] Reference
The cormorant is a large black duck which feeds on fish; I perceive no difference between it. From Wordnik.com. [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference
The cormorant is a species of pelican, of a dusky color: it is sometimes called the sea crow. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People] Reference
So, I am occasionally tempted to check eBay to see what kind of cormorant item are being offerred for sale. From Wordnik.com. [BIRDS ETCETERA—Birds, Birding, Birders, and Birdwatching] Reference
"cormorant" in the Authorized Version of Isa. 34: 11 and Zeph. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
(Heb. kaath, sometimes translated "cormorant," as (Isaiah 34: 11. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision] Reference
I felt like I was a cormorant at the Exxon Valdez site. From Wordnik.com. [Sheila Tendy: My Lesson Learned: Simple Tips To Prevent You from Losing Your Shirt] Reference
George, and how am I to stop the clamours of that cormorant?. From Wordnik.com. [The Garies and Their Friends] Reference
At one place on the coast of Japan there is cormorant fishing. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
Sarah picked the cormorant up, put it on her lap, and stroked it. From Wordnik.com. [Amoco Cadiz] Reference
An oil soaked cormorant was perched on a rock, looking out to sea. From Wordnik.com. [Amoco Cadiz] Reference
“So, do you know the difference between a cormorant and a shag?”. From Wordnik.com. [Cormorant] Reference
The birds comprise a darter, a cormorant, a guillemot, and a penguin. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
I have an appetite like a cormorant, am full of life, and sleep well. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
One day I observed a cormorant playing with a fish which it had caught. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
A huge cormorant perched on a stick, shaking out two black fan-feathered wings. From Wordnik.com. [Karin Badt: Clips from India: No Tigers from Periyar to Alleppey (iv)] Reference
I might as well tell you that the celluar walls of cormorant embryos are distended. From Wordnik.com. [McCain This Morning: "The Fundamentals Of Our Economy Are Strong"] Reference
A Stromness fisherman, on opening a halibut, found a large cormorant in its stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919] Reference
DEAR SIR, -- There is nothing surprising in the story of a halibut devouring a cormorant. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919] Reference
The cormorant, the pelican, the heron, floated on the water, or stalked along its pebbly brink. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
Distribution, population size, and conservation of the Cape cormorant (Phalacrocorax capensis). From Wordnik.com. [Benguela Current large marine ecosystem] Reference
The Po Basin contains the only nesting site in Italy of pygmy cormorant (Phalacrocorax pygmaeus). From Wordnik.com. [Po Basin mixed forests] Reference
The fresh water attracts the fish, and these bring many terns, gulls, and two kinds of cormorant. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
More of plummeter, for it dived like a cormorant for the beach, pulling up only at the last moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
It came with the sound of waves crashing and the iridescence of clothes made of cormorant feathers. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Leveen: Reliving Your First Literary Love] Reference
We explored the pools on wooden walkways, and spotted ducks, egrets and a cormorant from an adobe hide. From Wordnik.com. [Jordan's green crusade] Reference
Wilde was, too, in Coleridge's famous phrase, a true 'library cormorant' who fed off a varied diet of books. From Wordnik.com. ['Built of Books'] Reference
He compares the message of Thorwald to the cormorant skimming over the waves, and says he will never take it. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
When autumn came he would go back with renewed life and a pile of manuscript to feed to his hungry cormorant. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
But, since you invocate austers for the trailing of vixens, I would like to send a cormorant around this blue lagoon. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
The cormorant and darter, though here classed for convenience 'sake among the divers, really belong to the pelican family. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
I believed in the existence neither of the red-nosed clerical cormorant, nor in that of the venomous assassin of the journals. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography] Reference
Australian dab-chick Tachybaptushas novaehollandiae and little pied cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucus are common at Lake Tegano. From Wordnik.com. [East Rennell, Solomon Islands] Reference
This was the hermitage to which he brought his fagged-out nerves from the cormorant city that feeds on the blood and brains of humans. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
Here and there a cormorant sat alone on the branch of a dead tree, or a kingfisher poised himself over the water, watching for his prey. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
There is no cause whereof I should describe the cormorant amongst hawks, of which some be black and many pied, chiefly about the Isle of. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
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