A sea-gull with slow, deliberate flight and long, majestic curves circled round us, and as a reminder of home a little English sparrow perched impudently on the fo'castle head, and, cocking his head on one side, chirped merrily. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But one day, climbing after sea-gull eggs, he had a fall from the cliff. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I was left to keep house, feeling like a caged sea-gull as I washed dishes and cooked in the basement kitchen where my prospect was limited to a succession of muddy boots. ❋ Susan Cheever (2010)
The brittle air was filled with dog sound from sea-gull like keening to sharp barking to complaining that sounded like old wheezing women, but the dogs -- well, the dogs were excited. ❋ Unknown (2008)
They cut away, and the Rose, released from the strain, shook her feathers on the wave-crest like a freed sea-gull, while all men held their breaths. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It seemed first to be a sea-gull flying low, but ultimately proved to be a human figure, running with great rapidity. ❋ Unknown (2006)
We passed and gazed; but the only sound was the whistling of the tempest, and the only living sight a sea-gull, weary of his wings, and drowning. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
In the mountains they collect at this season vast numbers of the eggs of a species of sea-gull, which is very common here. ❋ Unknown (2004)
We hoisted a sail on our small boat and ran quickly over the nine miles and saw on the shore a tame sea-gull, while a couple of boys, the sons of a coastguard, ran into the water in their clothes to pull us to land, as we had read of savage people doing. ❋ W.B. Yeats (1965)
A solitary sea-gull winged its flight over our heads, to seek its nest in a cleft of the precipice. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Before him spread the gleaming Black Sea; in the distant reeds the sea-gull screamed. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A white-winged sea-gull rose suddenly from the crimson waters, and circled rapidly in the air above them. ❋ Unknown (2003)
After the lapse of three days, the gale died away, the sea-gull sailed upon the calm bosom of the windless atmosphere, and the last yellow leaf on the topmost branch of the oak hung without motion. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And when he touched her, she gave a cry like a startled sea-gull, and woke, and looked at him in terror with her mauve-amethyst eyes, and struggled that she might escape. ❋ Unknown (1998)
A sea-gull perched on the window-ledge outside and looked in curiously through the grimy panes. ❋ Beaton, M. C. (1994)