The Chipmunk found the Spotted Loonand told him that OLD-man wanted him, so the Loon went to where OLD-man sat.
The strange noises of the night bothered him, for he knew he was doing wrong, and when a Loon cried on a lake near by, he shivered as with cold, but finally crept to the sleeper's side.
Everybody groaned--all felt badly, I can tell you, as OLD-man laid the dead Loon on the logs.
OLD-man, but the loon peeked a little, and saw what was going on; several others heard the fluttering and opened their eyes, too.
The loon stopped near the door, for he believed that what the gray goose had said was true, and that OLD-man was up to some mischief.
When he got there, OLD-man said: "'Spotted Loon you are a great diver.
So the loon called to OLD-man and said they wouldn't help him at all.
He followed the loon till he found them, and then he made short work of them with his tomahawk and his war-club.
The loon is a favourite bird among the Indians, and they regard it with superstitious reverence.
A loon offered to show him where they were sleeping.
On the more isolated areas of the Arctic Slope the yellow-billed loon remains common; elsewhere it needs protection.
When the jaeger was ready to strike in order to make the loon drop the fish it was carrying, the loon dropped over the erosional cliff and splashed into the water.
The loonflew north approximately five miles to Lake Schrader where it was known to have young.
On August 4, a pomarine jaeger was chasing an Arctic loon that had a fish in its bill.
The male loon was too far away to reach its young before the jaeger departed.
Two pairs of the Arctic loonwere observed swimming on adjacent lakes.
The young loon when left alone would dive under water when approached.
The loon hurriedly swam away keeping its head turned toward us and when at a distance of 25 feet, dove again.
The force with which the excrement of the loon is expelled while standing on land, accounts for long white lines upwards of one meter in length.
Troth did I no, Milnwood; I was sic a fule as to fling it back to her--my heart was ower grit to be behadden to her, when I had seen that loon slavering and kissing at her.
They saw several Loons and tolled them by running towards them hallooing and waving a handkerchief, at which sight and cry theLoon immediately swam towards them, until within twenty yards.
At last they mind the gipsy loon In dungeon lay unfed; But ere the castle key was got The gipsy loon was dead.
On the wing overhead, the loon looks not unlike a very large duck, but when it alights it ploughs into the water like a bombshell.
The loon appears like anything but a silly bird, unless you see him in some collection, or in the shop of the taxidermist, where he usually looks very tame and goose-like.
Neither theloon nor the otter can bolt a fish under the water; he must come to the surface to dispose of it.
Uncle Nathan said he had seen the loon disappear and in a moment come up with a large trout, which he would cut in two with his strong beak, and swallow piecemeal.
We had in our party a breach-loading rifle, which weapon is perhaps an appreciable moment of time quicker than the ordinary muzzleloader, and this the poor looncould not or did not dodge.
Nature never meant the loon to stand up, or to use his feet and legs for other purposes than swimming.
Our guide told me he had seen the parent loon swimming with a single young one upon its back.
The loon is to the fishes what the hawk is to the birds; he swoops down to unknown depths upon them, and not even the wary trout can elude him.
To theenk that you of all ithers should ha' coom to save a reckless loon lik' me, the noo!
When the mist is on the lakes and the loon cries very often.
Is it like the land of the musk-ox in summer, when the mist is on the lakes, and the loon cries very often?
I take cloak and sword, and follow with his lordship and two other experienced cavaliers unto the place of rencontre, being a waste croft whereon a loon was herding goats, behind the Palace of the Luxembourg.
In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen.
But now the kind October wind rises, rustling the leaves and rippling the surface of the water, so that no loon can be heard or seen, though his foes sweep the pond with spy-glasses, and make the woods resound with their discharges.
He often sat down to a game with Joseph Dilly, an old blacksmith of the mountain division of the road, a skillfull player, who, like Payne, also grew rich.
Thorough braces were the leather springs, thick and wide, upon which the coach body was placed.
It is located on the northeast corner of Main and Arch streets, diagonally opposite the old McCleary House, and is now known as the West End Hotel.
He says if the ministers was so doited as to think his loon did best, it wasna for him to conter them.
By the stream a loon is calling, Keep us, Lord, all through the darkness.
Now and then she leans over and lifts a broad, black, webbed foot out of the water, holding it up distended, as if to endorse the modern theory that the parent loon teaches her young to swim.
But the dreary cadence of the loon is the voice of the inhospitable night, repelling every thought of human association.
The mother loonpushes and urges her indolent pair in the direction of safety.
A field-glass shows it to be the mother loon and her two offspring, the three huddled so closely together that they are almost indistinguishable.
For half an hour the echoes of the lake are kept alive with sounds portentous of new departures in the loon world.
When the mother loon takes her two offspring out for a swim, it is a big event in the domestic circle.
If he sought an opportunity to surprise the Coppermines, the Evil Spirit flew with the speed of a loon before a high wind to apprise them of his intentions.
As they all run away, Nana-bo-jou pursues the Loon, hitting him behind with the club, which is the reason that the Loon has no tail and has been lame behind ever since.
At last, they peek and realize that it is all a trap and the Loon shouts: "Nana-bo-jou is killing us!
But she's a neat little flower, and when she's done greeting after that dirty loon of a butler, she'll come round.
But Sir Mooray says I'm not to let either of the ither sairvants go to him; and I believe he frightened that loon in the breeches, because he would take in the letters.
He smiled at the loon floating past us, and spoke to it.
Say, perhaps that's one of them funny old loon birds you were telling us about to-day, that can just laugh so's to make your flesh creep!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
