When they passed Bella Bella, Cormorant said, "This is my town.
But Cormorant said, after everyone else had spoken, "Well, I'm only a passenger.
When they passed the village of Bella Bella, Cormorant was sitting on the beach.
The Chinese, my uncle told me, train the common cormorant to fish for them, the birds being taught to return with their prey to the boat in which their master sits, when they receive a small fish as their reward.
We must go round to Cormorant Bay," said my uncle.
The nest of the Cormorant is always upon a rocky ledge, and generally on a spot which is inaccessible except by practised climbers furnished with ropes, poles, hooks, and other appurtenances.
This is the so-called Gier-Eagle, which is named with the cormorant and the pelican as one of the birds which the Jews are forbidden to eat.
That the cormorant and other diving birds should do so is no matter of surprise, inasmuch as they are able to pursue the fish in their own element, and catch them by superior speed.
Sometimes, when rocks cannot be found, the Cormorantis obliged to select other spots for its nest.
The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and He shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
The Cormorant has been trained to play the same part in the water as the falcon in the air, and has been taught to catch fish, and bring them ashore for its master.
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl (yanshuph) also and the raven shall dwell in it: and He shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
While the ducks and teal and widgeons may be stationary on the pool, the cormorant is seen swimming to and fro, as if in quest of something.
The cormorant swallows it again, and up again it comes, and shows its tail a foot or more out of its destroyer's mouth.
The Cormorant is a most voracious bird, swallowing a considerable weight of fish at a meal, and digesting them so rapidly that it is soon ready for another supply.
The Cormorant belongs to the family of the pelicans, the relationship between them being evident to the most unpractised eye; and the whole structure of the bird shows its admirable adaptation for the life which it leads.
With that final outburst she swept down the steps and along the path, leaving Philip three paces behind, and the Ballawhaine with a terrified look under the stuffed cormorant in the fanlight above the open door.
The principal birds in this order are the grebes, the auks and penguins, the petrels, the pelican and cormorant and the swans, ducks, and geese.
The greatcormorant has a conspicuous white bar on each side of the head.
It is not very easy to distinguish the three species of cormorant from one another.
Thus it is that in New Zealand we see a number of different species of cormorant living side by side.
The lesser cormorant (Phalacocorax fuscicollis) breeds in nests in the trees on the islets which stud the Redhills Tank near Madras, also on the tank at Vaden Tangal, near Chingleput.
The third species of cormorant found in India is the great cormorant (Phalacocorax carbo).
The great cormorant possesses fourteen tail feathers, while all other cormorants have to put up with twelve.
It is therefore as clear as anything can be in nature that we must look to some cause other than natural selection for an explanation of the multiplicity of species of cormorant in New Zealand.
At the place where the canal runs into the lake there are a number of stakes driven into the canal bed; these project above the level of the water, and on every one of them a little cormorant is to be seen.
It is usually possible to distinguish the other two by the fact that the little cormorant has more white on the throat than his somewhat larger cousin.
Consequently a well-equipped bird like a cormorant is allowed a certain amount of latitude as to its form and colouring.
The cormorant family furnishes a very good example of the manner in which new species arise quite independently of natural selection.
In this case, however, the cruel sport has a different termination, by the cormorant being deprived of the prey it seemed so sure of.
Then, with a rush over the ledge, he plunges in, sending the cormorant off in affright, and taking possession of the prey it has left behind.
The fish, alive and apparently uninjured, makes away through the water; but only for a short distance, ere it is followed by the cormorant and caught afresh.
This food each cormorant seizes and tries to swallow, flapping his wings and stretching out his neck as a young bird will when fed by its mother.
Then each cormorant flaps up and takes a bite, and then flaps off to his nest, in which the piece of fish is concealed, for fear the wolves may get it.
According to Willoughby it was formerly the custom to carry the cormorant hooded till it was required; in modern practice the bearer wears a face-mask to protect himself from its beak.
The old cormorant looks nearly as big as a goose, but is really much smaller; its flesh is quite uneatable.
Nearly allied to the cormorant, and having much the same habits, is the shag, or green cormorant of some writers (P.
It was perhaps this peculiarity that struck the observation of Milton, and prompted his well-known similitude of Satan to a cormorant (Parad.
Once to-day we happen upon a fleet of fourteen cormorant fishers at a moment when the excitement of their pursuit is at its height.
Another weird, but this time noiseless, affair is a long string of nocturnal cormorant fishers, each with a big, flaming torch attached to the prow of his raft, propelling themselves along close under the dark frowning cliff.
These are the celebrated cormorant fishers of the Chinese rivers.
It was in vain the fish endeavoured to escape them--for the cormorant can glide rapidly through the water, and swim beneath with as much rapidity as upon the surface.
Besides, did I not with my own eyes see a black cormorant fly inland from the sea?
The course of the Cormorant was shifted slightly, and by the muddy color of the water Payne knew they were entering the river proper.
Payne and Higgins slipped swiftly through the jungle to the farther side of the key where the Cormorant lay moored.
In a few minutes the hull of the Cormorant began to throb with the drive of her powerful engines.
Through his precarious peekhole Payne caught glimpses of the water and land that the Cormorant was leaving behind her.
The Cormorant backed out of the thicket of mangrove branches which held her against the point, straightened out and started upstream.
VI For two hours the Cormorantdrove upstream without missing a stroke of her engines.
The cormorant Oblivion swallows up / The= 35 =carcases that Time has made his prey.
But cormorantwith Longfellow may stand for any of the large rapacious birds, as the eagle or the condor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cormorant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: glutton; greedy; hog; magpie; pig; voracious
