whaups

I believe, in my soul, you would run with a piece of the egg-shell on your head like the curlews, which (I would we were after them again) we used to call whaups in the

The Abbot 2008

Scotland — that I can never deny — if I could only be buried in the hills, under the heather and a table tombstone like the martyrs, where the whaups and plovers are crying!

Vailima Letters 2005

Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,

Songs of Travel and other verses 2004

Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,

Poems of To-Day: an Anthology Various

The whaups are calling, 'one can comprehend, too, the attraction for him of the power and the mystery of the sea.

Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

The stationmester's face got as reed's his nose, an 'he ca'd Sandy for a' the impident whaups that ever travelled.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

Two or three whaups rose from the moss-hags and then sailed pee-weeting towards the hills, as if despatched by the moor to warn them of the coming of these strangers; and it was as if the range answered shortly,

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

Two servant-girls were laying clothes on a bleaching-green within its dykes, the one taking them down from a clothes-line, the other laying them down on the grass, and they were exchanging cries that seemed at that distance wordless expressions of simple being like the calls of the whaups that circled above them.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

It'll do the whaups no harm scattering over the moor, for they've no æsthetic sensibilities.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

Gray whaups cry up on oor muir t 'me, white seamaws

Personal Recollections of Andrew Carnegie 1920