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Examples
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There are no more sea-birds, and the mutineers are starving.
CHAPTER XLIX 2010
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While I was busy baiting the sea-birds the mutineers were catching them, and of a surety they must have caught some that had eaten of my various poisons.
CHAPTER XLVIII 2010
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Nay, I hear but sea-birds screaming, round dark capes of lonely land.
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Weed and tangle — o'er the blackness curious sea-birds go and come —
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The circling hosts of huge sea-birds descended upon them, with carnivorous beaks striking at their heads and shoulders and arms.
CHAPTER XLIII 2010
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But food they had none, and no way of getting it, though sea-birds flew repeatedly overhead.
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Simon Nishikanta sneered openly at what he considered the captain's inefficient navigation, and continued to paint water-colours when he was serene, and to shoot at whales, sea-birds, and all things hurtable when he was downhearted and sea-sore with disappointment at not sighting the Lion's Head peak of the Ancient
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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Without wishing to put the sea-birds at risk, I think scum like this should be abandoned there, permanently.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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He sleeps and dreams of his people, and, awakening to sea-birds, mistakes them for his companions.
Believing the Wanderer Mary Kate Hurley 2008
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He sleeps and dreams of his people, and, awakening to sea-birds, mistakes them for his companions.
Archive 2008-07-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008
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