The word flew among screaming seafowl: “He has come, he has come, he is here, and he leads us.”. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Sunset light streamed over a hush broken only by the mildest of breezes and the squeals of leathery-winged seafowl. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
This is partly owing to the dung of a vast multitude of seafowl, and partly to a coating of a hard glossy substance with. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
The woman looked neither at the seafowl nor at the burning glens of scarlet flame which stretched dishevelled among the ruined lands of the sunset. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
"Well, actually, old egg," replied Bertram in fluent Talyinan, "considering the meaning of ` Push '" which was the name of a variety of seafowl "I am forced to admit that your otherwise miserable pun includes winged words.". From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Fringed with dark pines, and sands where seafowl scream. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold] Reference
The snow was wet underfoot and seafowl were swooping around. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary World Seventh Reader] Reference
It was a mere sand-bank, which supplied them only with water and seafowl. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting the Whales] Reference
La Tour, you would have seen four French settlers, and an unlimited number of seals and seafowl. From Wordnik.com. [Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV] Reference
The fisherman was an active young man who came to Skansen with seafowl that he had managed to capture alive. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Nils] Reference
The vast variety of seafowl screamed their utmost, and gave a wonderfully illustrative chorus to the lecture. From Wordnik.com. [James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.]
The dim loom of land saluted my eyes, and nearer still a precipice of rocks, by which the seafowl were screaming. From Wordnik.com. [Hurricane Island] Reference
They are the most presumptive proofs of being in the neighbourhood of land of any seafowl we are acquainted with. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship] Reference
On the leeward side of these rocks, in little hollows of the stone, he found a quantity of the eggs of some seafowl. From Wordnik.com. [Harrigan] Reference
As the rock also afforded a shelter to numerous seafowl, which built their nests in its crevices, it would afford some security to a few human beings. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin of the Sun] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Afoot in England] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
It came from within the vast girdle of mist, and seemed like the cry of a myriad of lost souls upon the horizon's verge; it was Dante become audible: and yet it was but the accumulated cries of innumerable seafowl at the entrance of the outer bay. From Wordnik.com. [Army Life in a Black Regiment]
Whilst passing this end of the island at sea, I could not imagine what the white patches were with which the whole plain was mottled; I now found that they were seafowl, sleeping in such full confidence, that even in midday a man could walk up and seize hold of them. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXI] Reference
Men had ceased from their daily toil; and the only sounds that broke the quiet of the morning were the chattering of the parrots and other birds in the cocoanut groves; and the cries of seafowl, as they circled in the air, or dropt on the surface of the sea in quest of fish. From Wordnik.com. [Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader] Reference
The lives of uncounted generations had passed it by, and the multitudes of seafowl, urging their way from all the points of the horizon to sleep on the outer rocks of the group, unrolled the converging evolutions of their flight in long somber streamers upon the glow of the sky. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Tether] Reference
On the guillemot-fells proper, eggs lie beside eggs in close rows from the crown of the cliff to near the sea level, and the whole fell is also closely covered with seafowl, which besides in flocks of thousands and thousands fly to and from the cliffs, filling the air with their exceedingly unpleasant scream. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
The weather grew milder during that day, but was not so clear; land was lost to sight, and the thermometer went up to thirty-two degrees; seafowl fluttered about, the flocks of wild ducks were seen flying north; the crew could divest themselves of some of their garments, and the influence of the Arctic summer began to be felt. From Wordnik.com. [The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras] Reference
October, the fulness of Autumn, with its cool, clear, bracing air; with its gathered crops, rustling leaves, and golden light: October, when days of furious storm are succeeded by weeks of hazy sunshine and muffled quiet; when the fish are fat but greedy; when quacking seafowl and game of every kind tempt the lovers of good sport. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors] Reference
We read of quails coming in from the sea, likewise of "four great beasts," but of seafowl never a word, though one sees them in abundance on the coast near Jaffa, and the Hebrew writers might have been expected to weave them into the rich fabrics of their poetic imagery as they did the pelican, the eagle and other birds less familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Calendar] Reference
“Well, actually, old egg,” replied Bertram in fluent Talyinan, “considering the meaning of ’Push’” - which was the name of a variety of seafowl - “I am forced to admit that your otherwise miserable pun includes winged words.”. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Wind whittered; seafowl shrilled. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Don't you think it may be the wing of a seafowl? ". From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Whaler] Reference
But the seafowl is gone to her nest. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library] Reference
Where in and out the screaming seafowl fly. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold] Reference
However, though it was frightful to be alone in this frozen vault, with no other society than that of the dead, not even a seafowl to put life into the scene, I could not but feel that, be my prospects what they might, for the moment I was safe -- that is to say, I was immeasurably securer than ever I could have been in the boat, which, when I had emerged into this stormy sound and realized the sea that was running outside, I instantly thought of with a shudder. From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Pirate] Reference
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