Halcyon

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a sea-bird," answered Socrates, "a bird called the Halcyon, and has a note full of plaining and tears.

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  • Sixty years ago, the Halcyon was a lumber warehouse. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 03] - Darkling
  • One was Doris-or Edith Halcyon, as he knew her name to be. —  142 - The Lost Giant
  • Edith Halcyon was making a hurry-up trip to Lake Placid, now that Chester Wilson had disappeared He had decided to go to Lake Placid with Edith Halcyon. —  142 - The Lost Giant
  • He went downstairs again, glanced at the ice, and saw Fay Thaddeus Fay and Edith Halcyon were skating pairs. —  142 - The Lost Giant
  • They were acting, Thaddeus Fay and Edith Halcyon, and they were very good actors, but they were about at the end of their ropes Thaddeus Fay came past. —  142 - The Lost Giant
 

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