单词 | seafowl |
例句 | Another successful method of taking seafowl was by the "fly" or "ring" net. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z 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.” A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z 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. Into the Primitive 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. Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson And Twenty Great Battles The dim loom of land saluted my eyes, and nearer still a precipice of rocks, by which the seafowl were screaming. Hurricane Island Twice a year, summer and winter, he followed his flock to the sea-shore and the islands, where they lived at their ease on fish and seals, clams, oysters, and seafowl. A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America 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.” A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Shortly before dawn, Blake was roused by a pack of jackals, snarling and quarrelling over the half-dried seafowl. Into the Primitive It was a mere sand-bank, which supplied them only with water and seafowl. Fighting the Whales As soon as this was done, the shapeless mass, deprived of its fat, was allowed to float away, to become the prey of numberless seafowl and various fish. The South Sea Whaler Don’t you think it may be the wing of a seafowl?” Peter the Whaler 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. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors Staring upward, Blake for the first time observed that the face of the cliff swarmed with seafowl. Into the Primitive The snow was wet underfoot and seafowl were swooping around. The Literary World Seventh Reader 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. The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language 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. Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library They are the most presumptive proofs of being in the neighbourhood of land of any seafowl we are acquainted with. 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 Even from where he stood Blake could hear the harsh clamor of the seafowl. Into the Primitive 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. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 The sun is couched, the seafowl gone to rest, And the wild storm hath somewhere found a nest. Composition-Rhetoric The vast variety of seafowl screamed their utmost, and gave a wonderfully illustrative chorus to the lecture. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography One of the people found three seafowl's eggs. 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 Her reverie was at last disturbed by the peculiar behavior of the seafowl. Into the Primitive On the leeward side of these rocks, in little hollows of the stone, he found a quantity of the eggs of some seafowl. Harrigan Lightly and daintily she rode upon the waters, like some giant seafowl, spreading one white pinion after another in preparation for her flight. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 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. Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools The fisherman was an active young man who came to Skansen with seafowl that he had managed to capture alive. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils These rocks are the haunts of seafowl, whose clang, though this is not their season, we heard at a distance. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes 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. The Monastery 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. Afoot in England 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. The Virgin of the Sun |
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