The scene was everywhere silent and desolate in the extreme, for not a breath of wind was blowing, not a cloud was in the sky, and no sign of life was there to greet them, not even a solitary gull or snowbird.
When a malley or gull came sweeping down towards them it looked as big as the fabulous Roc that carried away Sinbad the Sailor, and Rory would throw himself in the bottom of the boat and pretend to be in a terrible fright.
The malley-gull floats on the waves as lightly and gently as a child's toy air-ball would.
Save the noise of the ship's working there was not another sound to be heard, only occasionally a gull would float past overhead emitting a strange and mournful cry.
I am afraid the gullpresumes not a little upon all this.
In them you may dare things not easily to be contemplated in less pliant footgear, and thus may scale the pinnacled rock, and look down from its further side on to Gull Rock and the deep-water channel below.
I have even seen a gull steal and bolt a pudding-cloth; but what happened to him afterwards I don't know.
There are, indeed, few things a gull will not steal.
It is one of the most ridiculous sights to observe a gull perched on the edge of a chimney-pot smelling the odours that come up from cottage chimneys.
See, look there," he added, pointing to the conical rock on which another infatuated gull had perched himself.
Tell the chief," said Leo, "to look at that peak with the solitary gull standing on it.
Grabantak in open-mouthed amazement, when he beheld the shot gull tumbling from its lofty perch, "Do it again.
They disappeared and I watched a lonelygull riding the swells.
So that once in a while when I did see a lonely white gull I watched him with pleasure.
There was no sound except the screech of a gull and the distant splashes of wading birds.
And good reason she hath for it: Nocte latent mendae, and many an amorous gull is fetched over by that means.
Gull on the masthead, apple at the end of the bough, what can you tell us at such crucial times?
And I talk to myself and totally convince myself and then the mew of a gull shatters my conviction.
Stripping, bronze, Phaon dives expertly and brings Sappho a handsome conch: listening to the shell they lie in the boat and begin to make love, a bronze gull sculptured on the sky, the sound of waves.
They neared the rock, rode boldly through the surf, and were steered into the Gull Creek by someone who evidently knew the coast well.
Presently a rocket went up from the Gull Rock,--a little rock island with a creek on the landside, a spot where many smugglings had taken place.
Williams gives an account, in The Irish Naturalist, of a lesser black-headed gull that used to frequent the lake in St. Stephen's Green Park.
Another gull which attacked a duckling was in turn attacked by the parents (a pair of Chilian wigeons), with such success that the exhaustedgull was killed with a stick by one of the Park constables.
A dozen gentle flaps of the wings in a minute suffices to enable a gull to keep pace with a fast steamship.
Know, sir, our daughter Is our daughter, and has wit at will To gull a thousand easy things like you.
No, he shall find, as wisely said Lucullus, Young men are fools that go about to gull us.
Tis like the young gull you brought home one day, and, when it was grown, no love kept it from the sea.
To-night I noticed a skua gull settle on an upturned block of ice at the edge of the floe on which several penguins were preparing for rest.
A skua gull visited us on the march this afternoon--it was evidently curious, kept alighting on the snow ahead, and fluttering a few yards as we approached.
After the lapse of three days, the gale died away, the sea-gull sailed upon the calm bosom of the windless atmosphere, and the last yellow leaf on the topmost branch of the oak hung without motion.
A solitary sea-gull winged its flight over our heads, to seek its nest in a cleft of the precipice.
And now they were talking together with free and unfeigned interest and pleasure, scarcely turning for a glance at the water or sky, save when old Uncle Dudley made insulting remarks to some slow-drifting gull or soaring bird of prey.
Yes, that's Kynance Cove, and theGull Rock and Asparagus Island.
And before then there was a deal to be seen and done, the Bellows, the Gull Rock, Asparagus Island--even if we left out the dangerous points with the ugly names that Curgenven had warned us against.
Illustration: SEA GULL ROCK] Here we venture to a place that seems accessible in order to procure a photograph.
At this moment the boom of a gun fired by the Gulllightship broke on the ears of the men of Deal, and a moment later the bright flash of a rocket was seen.
Buonaparte, nevertheless, persisted in playing off the bugbear of the French flotilla at Boulogne, by which John Gull was kept in a complete state of agitation and ferment.
Here comes another one," sung out somebody, and, looking up, they saw another gullabout the same height from the deck.
By and by he looked up and saw a gull sailing over the deck and sung out: "There's a good shot.
The bullet struck the gull squarely in the breast, and, of course, the bird came tumbling down right into the group of passengers.
That gull is at least a hundred yards above us," and nearly every man on the deck agreed with Terry, but the bettor became rather sarcastic and asked if he expected the bird to knock his hat off with one of its wings.
There were two or three ladies on board who had wing feathers of the same kind in their hats, and some of them insisted on comparing the wings of the dead gull with some found on the hats of the ladies.
He waited for about fifteen minutes before a gull flew directly overhead, and then he quickly raised his revolver and fired.
Terry, however, raised his revolver and fired, and the gull came fluttering, down with one of its wings actually cut off.
He hadn't really ever heard of Olcott to his recollection but shooting a gull on the wing with a revolver was such an extraordinary feat that he was willing to take the chances.
He had seen him bring down one gull and like the majority of men who take chances, decided that it was impossible for it to be done very often.
Finally another gull came flying over, about twice as high as the first two.
By-and-by a rocket hissed up from the Gull Rock, a small islet with a creek on the landward side which had been the scene of many a run of smuggled cargo.
They neared the rocks, rowed daringly through the surf, and were steered by some practised coxswain into the Gull Greek.
It was the official regulation gull way of fighting under set rules, but he could rarely get any other bird than a gull to fight with him like it.
And this was where the waiting, watching gull came in--the herring-gull.
He may, or may not, have known it, but I can tell you that the gull was the self-same herring-gull who had tried to kill him the day before.
The herring-gull was a silver line--about as big as a thrip--to seaward.
The great black-backed gull said no more, but wheeled on as if nothing had happened.
It was a gang of gulls flying round and mobbing a hapless wounded gull on the beach.
He was in pursuit of a common gull who, with more luck than judgment, had caught a fish.
The sturdy Gull straining and plunging wildly at her huge cables, trembled as our third gun thundered forth its summons, but the rocket struck the rigging and made a low, wavering flight.
A few seconds carried them out of sight, and thus, as regards the Gull Lightship, the drama ended.
I'll furnish our feast with onegull more toward the mess.
How buoyant and happy they seemed, flying with their stomachs full to their rest; while I, dismounted and supperless, dragged painfully on like a gull that had been left behind with a broken wing.
He spent most of his time strumming on a wretched old cracked guitar, and singing amorous ballads in a lugubrious, whining falsetto, which reminded me not a little of that hungry, complaining gull I had met at the estancia in Durazno.
I have been fooled in my time by women, but never so grossly as you seem willing to gull me.
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