| 单词 | solan goose |
| 例句 | Yonder, where the gulls are screaming and diving, with here and there a solan goose and a cormorant in the midst of the flock, must be a patch of the smaller fry. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z It might be a diver or a solan goose with outspread wings, but it looked too large. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z It pastures a few sheep, and is a great breeding-place of solan geese. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis He had charge, besides, of the solan geese that roosted in the crags; and from these an extraordinary income is derived. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) The oil of the solan goose is also a source of wealth. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The Sula bassana, or solan goose: a large sea bird of the family Pelecanidæ, common on the Scottish coasts. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A long flight of solan geese could just be seen slowly sailing along the western horizon. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 He had charge besides of the solan geese that roosted in the crags; and from these an extraordinary income is derived. 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 Bass Rock, a steep basaltic rock at the mouth of the Firth of Forth, 350 ft. high, tenanted by solan geese; once used as a prison, specially in Covenanting times. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge In severe winters, flocks of solan geese, locally denominated "barnacles," frequent the shores. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 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. The Captain of the Polestar The precipitous parts are frequented by large flocks of solan geese and other sea birds. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 They split open the birds they did not require for present consumption, and dried them for winter store, smoking some after the manner the Shetlanders and the Orkney people smoke the solan geese. Lost in the Backwoods |
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