sea-mews

And with this disconsolate reflection, he wended his way to the bartizan or battlements of the tower, to watch what objects might appear on the distant moor, or to pelt, with pebbles and pieces of lime, the sea-mews and cormorants which established themselves incautiously within the reach of an idle young man.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

There the nymphs, like sea-mews, plunged beneath the depths, when they had fulfilled the behests of the spouse of Zeus.

The Argonautica 2008

“Fair and generous Molinara,” he said, “had we not better undo the outward gate, and make the best of our way hence, even like a pair of sea-mews who make towards shelter of the rocks as the storm waxes high?”

The Monastery 2008

A shot fired among this swarm would have killed a great number, but to fire a shot a gun was needed, and neither Pencroft nor Herbert had one; besides this, gulls and sea-mews are scarcely eatable, and even their eggs have a detestable taste.

The Mysterious Island 2005

“Oh!” cried he, “those are not gulls nor sea-mews!”

The Mysterious Island 2005

“Oh!” cried he, “those are not gulls nor sea-mews!”

The Mysterious Island 2005

A shot fired among this swarm would have killed a great number, but to fire a shot a gun was needed, and neither Pencroft nor Herbert had one; besides this, gulls and sea-mews are scarcely eatable, and even their eggs have a detestable taste.

The Mysterious Island 2005

For some days we saw a great number of aquatic birds, sea-mews or gulls.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

A flock of tiny sea-mews, half the size of the fish, are screaming shrilly and darting down on the shoal; but as for their catching them, the idea is preposterous, for the fish are twice as big as the birds.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

There the nymphs, like sea-mews, plunged beneath the depths, when they had fulfilled the behests of the spouse of Zeus.

The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius