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Example sentences for "gulls"

Lexicographically close words:
gullibility; gullible; gullied; gullies; gulling; gully; gulp; gulped; gulph; gulphs
  1. The gulls in the river were flying in long, lazy curves, dipping down to the water, skimming it an instant, and then wheeling up again with easy, slanting wings.

  2. I had never seen the gulls fly so close about the house or approach so fearlessly to human beings.

  3. The district was alive with rabbits, and haunted by gulls which made a continual piping about the pavilion.

  4. I can't think how they poor gulls lives when all the sea round about is a hustle o' froth.

  5. But I can hear the sea-gulls screaming, even here.

  6. The sea gulls screamed and screeched; they flocked out from the cliff-ledges, and with still wings they towered up into the sky.

  7. But the gulls know him well, and will scream back to him when he calls.

  8. The only two we found, however, had been partially eaten by sea-gulls and rats.

  9. If the weather is hard and fish offal scarce on the beach, the gulls will pay us a supercilious visit.

  10. I had forgotten the gulls and the ravens; had forgotten the existence of all living things except prawns, lobsters and wild-crabs.

  11. Gulls dipped and screamed over the wake of the ferryboat that carried the Pages to Oakland, and after the warm cabin and the heated train, they all shivered miserably as they got out at the appointed corner.

  12. Presently glorious sunlight enveloped them, flashed from a thousand windows on San Francisco hills, and struck to dazzling whiteness the breasts of the gulls that circled Sausalito's piers.

  13. You must know that me and all the gulls have taken to making knundrums, as they call them, and what we can't make, we collex.

  14. The land was wintry and the wind shrilled so that the attendant gulls flapped their wings hard in the face of it.

  15. The gulls were glinting in the sunshine, and by their little brown-thatched homes the fishermen were spreading out their nets.

  16. Barges were drifting up with it in a comfortable, haphazard sort of fashion, and a great company of sea-gulls hovered near, chiding and wheeling together.

  17. There was no one part of it better than another; it was all desolate and rocky; nothing living on it but game birds which I lacked the means to kill, and the gulls which haunted the outlying rocks in a prodigious number.

  18. I heard the surf thundering against the cliffs, and the gray gulls squealed as they tossed and turned high in the sky.

  19. I guess I did laugh when I went aloft to clean the lamp and found everything so free and breezy, gulls flying high and little whitecaps making under a westerly.

  20. High in the storm whirl a few gulls pitched; a nearer cloud trailed veils of rain in its wake; the sky was spattered with lightning; the thunder boomed.

  21. Sea-gulls seem to me like grown-up raptures.

  22. This bird became at last so tame that no pains were taken to preserve it, and its wings having grown to full length it flew away, joined the other gulls on the beach, and came back, from time to time, to pay a visit to the house.

  23. The great gray Gulls are good Meat, and as large as a Pullet.

  24. They are often thrown upon the Sands on the Sound-Side, where the Gulls are always ready to open and eat them.

  25. You forget how we watched those gulls and things that were roosting up there," Peggy reminded Sarita in her usual indefinite way at which Sarita always laughed.

  26. There are a lot of water birds now," said Leslie, pointing to some herring gulls that floated contentedly in the cove, not very far from the opening.

  27. Do you remember, Sarita, how those gulls the other day were floating near that place?

  28. Through Sarita, Peggy was introduced to the different gulls and other sea birds that flapped or sailed or flew over the bay and in the woods.

  29. Tides Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing Where the starlike sea gulls soar; The sun was keen and the foam was blowing High on the rocky shore.

  30. But now in the dusk the tide is turning, Lower the sea gulls soar, And the waves that rose in resistless yearning Are broken forevermore.

  31. The Skua gulls keep well out to sea, as a rule, but occasionally enter harbors and bays in pursuit of gulls and terns, which they rob of their prey.

  32. Gulls and terns of the various species rest on sand-bars or fly along the shore.

  33. Soon after many gulls appeared, and numbers of flying fishes.

  34. In the afternoon, many weeds were seen stretching from north to south, also three gulls and a water-wagtail pursuing them.

  35. On Thursday the 20th two more gulls were seen; some time after they took a black bird, having a white spot on its crown and feet like a duck; they killed a small fish, and sailed over large quantities of weeds.

  36. However, the place contrives to look as unknown as ever, as if only some lazy gulls and a few fishermen mending lobster-pots had ever heard a hint of it.

  37. We ran through miles of dense pine forests, where rhododendrons grew wild; where gulls spread silver wings and trailed coral feet a few yards above our heads; and the tang of the sea mingled with pine-balsam in our nostrils.

  38. They may be sea-gulls with red bills, yes.

  39. Just see how the sea-gulls are swimming down the stream!

  40. Gulls flew overhead, and the smoke of the furnaces blotted across the waters.

  41. He saw a spout which proved to be waves dashed from the weather side of a floe, and sea gulls hovering over an oily patch.

  42. Occasionally, however, a hoary old "grandpa" went drifting by with its load of walrus and hair seals, while over them hovered gulls and other birds.

  43. There cannot be A chapel or church between here and Devon, With fishes or gulls ringing its bell,--hark.

  44. It's grand up there with the gorse all round, the gulls basking on the rocks, the partridges calling in the corn, and now and then a young hawk overhead.

  45. Gulls swooped by us--ghosts of the old greedy wanderers of the sea.

  46. The gulls were flying gracefully above the water, sometimes coming close to the boat and now and then one would make a sudden dash down to the water, just dip his head in it and skim it with his wings, then soar up into the air again.

  47. Look out one of the sea gulls doesn't take you for a bite of breakfast," he called jokingly after him.

  48. If the sea-gulls want a cook, your mamma must hire them one on purpose.


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