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Examples
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The luxuriance of the grebe's summer headdress seems somehow out of step with the frigid greyness of this landscape.
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They passed the entrance to Salhouse where, on any other day, they would have looked in to see the swan's nest and the crested grebe's.
Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934
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The quaint three-lobed leaves, shaped like a grebe's foot, were still small, and the flowerstocks, thick as corn in a field, were crowned with pyramids of buds, cream and rosy-red like the opening dropwort clusters, and at the lower end of the spikes were the full-blown singular, snow-white, cottony flowers -- our strange and beautiful water edelweiss.
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Look at a Slavonian grebe's eldritch-red eyes and electric-mustard ear tufts and you have something of Ziggy Stardust-period David Bowie.
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"And mark my words, the slaughter will go on; the unholy traffic will not long be confined to grebe's breasts for muffs and cape trimmings.
Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird Virginia Sharpe Patterson 1877
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