gannet

• Why not strike at communion out of the unseen, as the gannet strikes into the unseen underwater, or the kite from above at a mouse? —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
• We also saw a variety of seabirds -- gannet, fulmar, petrel, skua, guillemot and many other kinds of seagull. —  UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World
• The booby, Mr McRitchie told us, is a species of gannet, and the noddy a species of tern. —  A Voyage round the World A book for boys
• His situation on the Ramparts was an aid to his imagination, for as he sat there the sea would be sluggishly rolling below or beating in petulant waves and he floated, as it were, between sea and sky, as free from earth's clogging influence as the gannet that soared above He sought the Ramparts because for a boy of his age to read in books, except as a task of the school, was something shameful; and he had been long accustomed to the mid-air trip upon the walls ere some other boys discovered him guilty, flushing and trembling with a story book in his hand. —  Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
• And in the gannet, which drops into the sea from a great height after fish, these air-bags lessen the shock on striking the water. —  Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds

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