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Example sentences for "hawksbill"

Lexicographically close words:
hawker; hawkers; hawking; hawklike; hawks; hawkweed; hawl; hawn; haws; hawse
  1. Our fishermen have taken one green, and one hawksbill turtle; also a skate, weighing ninety pounds; and two buckets full of other fish of various descriptions, principally mullet.

  2. Our fishing party have taken in their seine to-day, two flying-fish of the gurnet species, and a hawksbill turtle.

  3. A singular mode of taking the hawksbill turtle is followed by the natives here.

  4. In the Hawksbill neighborhood, not far from Luray, there lived a long time ago John Stone and his family.

  5. The Ruffners were among the largest landowners in the Valley, their property extending twelve miles on both sides of Hawksbill Creek.

  6. Her run was in the Banks and Santa Cruz groups and to the northwest among the several isolated atolls where his native traders collected copra, hawksbill turtle, and an occasional ton of pearl shell.

  7. He didn't dream any more than the Chink, but coming back he stopped for hawksbill turtle at the very beach where you say the mate of the Flirt was killed.

  8. The length of the carapace (the upper shell) in the hawksbill is about forty-two inches.

  9. The Hawksbill Turtle is distinguished by the hawk-like appearance of its head.

  10. The hawksbill turtle (Caretta imbricata) that chiefly producing the tortoise-shell of commerce, resorts to the shores in the neighbourhood of Cape York later in the season than the green species, and is comparatively scarce.

  11. The hawksbill turtle and its eggs are forbidden to women suckling, and no female, until beyond child bearing, is permitted to eat of the Torres Strait pigeon.

  12. Although a strong prejudice existed against the hawksbill as an article of food, we all found reason to change our minds, and pronounce it to be at least equal to the other.


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    Other words:
    chameleon; dragon; reptile