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  • After a breakfast of stewed phalaropes, whose tender, plover-like flesh was a pleasing change from the hitherto almost unvaried roast sea-fowl diet of the last week, the boat was drawn out upon the level platform near the hut, and removing her side and covering boards, the party held

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • I was more than once misled by these plover-like tactics, and on one occasion was near getting into a serious scrape.

    The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868

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