A long flight of solan geese could just be seen slowly sailing along the western horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference

In severe winters, flocks of solan geese, locally denominated "barnacles," frequent the shores.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829] Reference

The dinner was made up chiefly of Scottish national dainties, and everything went well, save that the solan goose, a fragrant bird at all times, proved so underdone that Mr. Oldbuck threatened to fling it at the head of the housekeeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference

The solan goose frequents Scottish haunts in summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marmion] Reference

"It'll be the mair pleisand a change for the solan geese, then," quoth.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

"It'll be the mair pleisand a change for the solan geese, then," quoth Andie dryly.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.] Reference

The very pickmaws and solan-geese out-bye yonder at the Bass hae ten times their sense!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

The solan keekit doun into Tam's face, and there was something unco in the creature's ee.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

The solan keekit doon into Tam's face, and there was something unco in the creature's ee.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.] Reference

Berwick is paid to this day in solan geese, which makes it (in some folks 'eyes) a parish to be coveted.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

It chanced, ye see, that Tam keeked up, and he was awaur of a muckle solan, and the solan pyking at the line.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

With these awful weapons we wandered along the beach and fired at the gulls and solan-geese as they passed us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Boyhood and Youth] Reference

They cackled after me like solan-geese, but I shut and locked the door in their faces and led Aileen to her room.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference

He had charge besides of the solan geese that roosted in the crags; and from these an extraordinary income is derived.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

"Rin, Geordie, rin to the boat, mak 'sure of the boat, man -- rin!" he cries, "or yon solan 'll have it awa'," says he.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

Geese alone number several terms: brant, ember (goose), gosling, goosander, gull (not the sea bird, which is from Welsh), and solan.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3] Reference

There was no sign of any herring; no solan geese sweeping down; no breaking of the water; and none of the other boats, so far as they could make out, had as yet shot their nets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols] Reference

Beyond the keeper of the lighthouse there are only one or two families of poor fisher-folk, who sustain a precarious existence by their nets, and by the capture of cormorants and solan geese.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain of the Polestar] Reference

Now John Hatton was a cotton-spinner, but he knew the ways of a boat, and the winds and tides that would serve her, and the road southward she must take; and at his will she went, as if she was a solan flying for the rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Measure of a Man] Reference

And it seemed the solan understood about knives, for nae suner did the steel glint in the sun than he gied the ae squawk, but laigher, like a body disappointit, and flegged aff about the roundness of the craig, and Tam saw him nae mair.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

And it seemed the solan understood about knives, for nae suner did the steel glint in the sun than he gied the ae squawk, but laighter, like a body disappointit, and flegged aff about the roundness of the craig, and Tam saw him nae mair.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.] Reference

Again, you might join our fishing parties, where we sat perched as thick as solan geese, a covey of little anglers, boy and girl, angling over each other's head, to the much entanglement of lines and loss of podleys and consequent shrill recrimination -- shrill as the geese themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV] Reference

Immediately adjacent is a farm-yard, and we have not only the usual live stock of such a scene, but a fine pair of swans, three cygnets, moorfowl, and solan geese upon the moat; rabbits running wild upon the mount; a rookery, wood doves, and, we are told, nightingales in the castle trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor] Reference

Again, you might join our fishing parties, where we sat perched as thick as solan-geese, a covey of little anglers, boy and girl, angling over each other's heads, to the to the much entanglement of lines and loss of podleys and consequent shrill recrimination-shrill as the geese themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays] Reference

It seems you returned to my papa's, where you showed yourself excessively martial, and then on to realms unknown, with an eye (it appears) to the Bass Rock; solan geese being perhaps more to your mind than bonny lasses. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.] Reference

Bass Rock; solan geese being perhaps more to your mind than bonny lasses. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

The solan to its island flies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference

The solan can sleep on the shelve of the shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

And it seemed the solan understood about signals.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

Narcosis potato (Phytomonas solan-acearum).    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

The arms are quarterly: first and fourth, vert, a herring, argent; second and third, azure, a solan-goose, volant, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference

"gannet" (Sula bassana, "the solan goose"); others that it is the "tern" or "sea swallow," which also frequents the coasts of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference