seamew

• “Between the blueness of the sea and the sky he passes easy as a gull, close to the fine white seamew of his mate, amid red flowers of flags, and soft birds of ships, and slow-moving monsters of steamboats.”

  The Trespasser

• “There are furthermore the stork and the seamew; and the seamew, by the way, is ashen-coloured.”

  The History of Animals

• “To add to the effect of the landscape, silence the most absolute brooded over it, except when the scream of a seamew, wheeling about drowsily in the sunny air, broke upon the ear.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831

• “It is desolate," said I. "Not even a seamew or a gull.”

  My New Curate

• “I learned from the seamew that you were spending the night here.”

  The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

• “Oh, if our souls could transmigrate I'd be a seamew above all birds that fly!”

  Beyond the City

• “SCREAMS round the Arch-druid's brow the seamew -- white”

  ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS IN SERIES, 1821-22. III. TREPIDATION OF THE DRUIDS

• “The waves are a joy to the seamew, the meads to the herd,”

  A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems

• “It soon passed over and the gale blew more steadily, driving the _Snowflake_ over the North Sea like a seamew.”

  Chasing the Sun

• “On a beautiful morning, many years ago, a little schooner might have been seen floating, light and graceful as a seamew, on the breast of the slumbering ocean.”

  Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific

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