Now and then a lonely sea-bird hovers far away, and we ❋ Unknown (2010)
Gough Island is the least disturbed major cool-temperate island ecosystem in the South Atlantic Ocean, and one of the most important sea-bird colonies in the world. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Nothing moved across my vision — not even a lone bird soared up against the dull sky; and, for my hearing, not so much as the cry of a sea-bird came to me — no! nor the croak of a frog, nor the plash of a fish. ❋ Unknown (2007)
She had written a long front-page article saying that the CC is getting warmer due to CO2-driven forcing and so the local sea-bird population the Cassin Auklets, mostly was declining. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The night was so exquisite that I was content to rest without sleeping; the Babel noises of fowls and men had ceased, and there were only quiet sounds of rippling water, and the occasional cry of a sea-bird as we slipped through the waveless sea. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
Shortly afterwards the whole body was transferred to a large lighter, which conveyed them out to Spithead, where the good ship fraught with their destinies lay like a mighty sea-bird asleep on the bosom of the open roadstead. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I'd guess that the nature center crew were right to cancel the scheduled sea-bird cruise for this morning, though. ❋ Jhetley (2004)
Only six months ago my sister16 awoke dreaming that she held a wingless sea-bird in her arms and presently she heard that he had died in his madhouse, for a sea-bird is the omen that announces the death or danger of a Pollexfen. ❋ W.B. Yeats (1965)
How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Then would follow an awkward pause, which our friends would try to cover, by showing us on its perch the household hawk (when possible a sea-bird taken young on the Red Sea coast) or their watch-cockerel, or their greyhound. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)
Now and then the cry of a sea-bird rose from the region of the marsh; and at intervals, from farmhouses far in the inland waste, the faint winding of horns to call the cattle home traveled mournfully through the evening calm. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They lay on the beach like a grey and a white sea-bird together. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It was his fate, his peculiarity, whether he wished it or not, to come out thus on a spit of land which the sea is slowly eating away, and there to stand, like a desolate sea-bird, alone. ❋ Unknown (2002)
When a sea-bird, emerging from the water, sees the sea-eagle, he in terror dives under, intending to rise again elsewhere; the eagle, however, owing to its keenness of vision, keeps flying after him until he either drowns the bird or catches him on the surface. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Amber perched like a sea-bird on his cockeyed railing. ❋ Hobb, Robin (1999)
Instead a sea-bird, attracted by the glister of the morning sun on the buttons of his shirt, wheeled away with a frightened squawk. ❋ King, Stephen, 1947- (1987)
As Eddie watched, one of the horrors reached up, light-ning quick, and snared a sea-bird which happened to swoop; too close to the beach. ❋ King, Stephen, 1947- (1987)
