Bernicle

Word BERNICLE
Character 8
Hyphenation ber ni cle
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The word "bernicle" in example sentences

For several centuries there was prevalent over the whole of civilised Europe a most extraordinary superstition concerning the small Arctic bird resembling, but not so large as, the common wild goose, known as the barnacle or bernicle goose. ❋ Unknown (1969)

The brant and bernicle beat their way North against the roaring winds, and man with a different instinct pressed on towards the West. ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)

The air at this season is full of great birds -- eagles, buzzards, hawks, and falcons -- soaring in circles to look out for prey among the flocks of wild swans, white geese, bernicle geese and brent geese, duck and teal, which cover the backwaters and the marshes and shallow lagoons. ❋ Harry Hamilton Johnston (1892)

Bernicle geese and bernicle shells, confused in name, thus became confused in nature; and, once started, the ordinary process of growth was sufficient to further intensify, and render more realistic, the story of the bernicle tree and its wonderful progeny. ❋ Various (1880)

And carefully taking one of the eggs of the bernicle goose, he broke the shell at its end, and adroitly swallowed the inside without any further formalities. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

Several flocks of birds were visible on the shore, bitterns, curlews, bernicle geese, and teal, which hovered and chirped and filled the air with their flutterings and cries, doubtless protesting against the invasion of their domain. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

A few dozen eggs of the bernicle geese were also found among the higher rocks which shut in the bay on the north. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

These geese are very small, and not above half the size of the Canada geese; and yet Mr. Waterton found a large old Canada goose on his noble sheet of water at Walton Hall pair with a bernicle gander. ❋ Jane (1845)

The bernicle, or brent goose, is interesting from the curious superstition which formerly prevailed respecting it, as it was supposed to have sprung from the shell called the barnacle or lepas, which adheres to the bottoms of ships, and which has a fringe of cirri projecting from between its valves bearing some faint resemblance to the feathers of a bird. ❋ Jane (1845)

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