There are no sounds in nature But my moan, The shriek of the wild petrel All alone, And roar of waves exulting To make my flesh their own.
When the petrelreturned from a hunting trip and discovered that his wife had gone, he followed, and flapping his great wings raised a terrible storm at sea.
Nerrvik, a beautiful maiden, according to the legend, married a storm-petrel who had disguised himself as a man.
The Fork-tailed Petrelcomes next in point of size.
The Stormy Petrel is common enough, and doubtless breeds on every island in the group.
This Petrel is also nocturnal in its habits, lying close concealed in its burrow during the day, coming out at dusk to search for food over the surrounding sea.
The Petrel builds its nest, a rude structure of weeds and rubbish, either in the hole of a cliff or under stones on the beach, and lays a single egg.
I have said that "Winston" was nominally subjugated, for a petrel of his peculiarly irrepressible storminess can only be wholly curbed by annihilation.
Doctor Karl Liebknecht, that stormy petrel of German Socialism, remained the one man to utter anti-war sentiment day in and day out.
A stormy petrel came up from the cliff and swirled above the men as they fought, and made its direful scream over them.
Wilson's Stormy Petrel is one of the best known and commonest.
The Stormy Petrel is so exceedingly oily in texture, that the inhabitants of the Ferol islands draw a wick through its body and use it as a lamp.
The chief part of their subsistence on this island appeared to be penguins, seal, young birds, and petrel which they take in a curious way.
Well, said Tom, the Petrel hadn't proved much better than a raft, after all.
This designation of the Petrel as a "raft" was my first legal quibble.
She would fly at them--even as she flew at the head-hunters when the Petrel was menaced; and she could run like a deer.
Grits and Tom followed,--when suddenly the Petrel sank considerably below the water-line as her builders had estimated it.
We held a council, the all-important question of which was how to get the Petrel to the water, and what water to get her to.
Then the Petrel by heroic efforts was got into the wagon, the seat of which had been removed, old Thomas Jefferson perched himself precariously in the bow and protestingly gathered up his rope-patched reins.
I had beheld, in my dreams, the Petrel about to take the water, and Nancy Willett standing very straight making a little speech and crashing a bottle of wine across the bows.
But he did not volunteer to be one of those to man the Petrel on her maiden voyage.
At length we reached the muddy shores of Logan's pond, where two score eager hands volunteered to assist the Petrel into her native element.
The history of the building of the good ship Petrel is similar to that of all created things, a story of trial and error and waste.
The legend of the petrel gliding upon the waves, around the ship which he appears to lead to perdition, is of Dutch origin.
I mention the fulmar petrelas well as the guillemot, because, whatever may be the case elsewhere, here these birds lay on the bare rock without a shadow of a nest.
Footnote 5: The idea that the fulmar petrel never flies over the land is a delusion.
One cannot, indeed, watch for long the flight of the fulmar petrel without becoming dissatisfied, or at least critical, in regard to that of other sea-birds.
But at last the powerful motors conquered and, tossed by the ever increasing swells, the plane rode the sea like the stormy petrel after which she had been named.
I noticed on this, as on several subsequent occasions, that the little storm petrel is in the habit of kicking the water with one leg when it is skimming the surface in searching for its food.
The petrel above referred to was the little diver (Pelecanoides urinatrix), a bird not uncommon in the channels, but yet very difficult to obtain.
One night a small petrel flew on board, into one of the hoisted-up boats, where it was found by one of the seamen in the usual apparently helpless state.
The result is that I am now quite certain that the storm petrel and Cape pigeon do follow the ship by night as well as by day, and that, moreover, the night is the best time for catching them.
I did not notice any petrel burrows, but everywhere near the beach were the burrows of a littoral crab, a species of the genus Ocypoda.
The Petrel at once bore away, with Martin at the wheel and Shaky in command, Judith descending into the little caboose to prepare food.
It was considerably past noon when Sandy announced that the Petrel was in sight, and then the little hatch in the deck forward of the mast was raised, and Arno and Jason ordered to descend.
The stormy petrel hardly ever goes on land except to lay her eggs.
The sailors call the stormypetrel "Mother Carey's chickens.
They take a dead petrel and run a wick through him.
She told him how the stormy petrel flies far, far away from land.
The stormypetrel is very oily, like all sea birds.
All day long we were so busy seeing and doing things in this delightful, intimate personality that I lost my Stormy Petrel emotion in a crowd of other emotions.
When we motor, the Stormy Petrel submits himself for the present to the boot of the tyrant in the Grayles-Grice.
The Stormy Petrel flushed up again, whether with annoyance or embarrassment or a mad desire to laugh, I couldn't decide.
Anyhow, we have no other means of getting at this extremely Stormy Petreluntil his return.
I asked myself, determined, however, to keep my faith in the Stormy Petrelat any price.
The Stormy Petrel meant something in particular, something he didn't intend to explain to Jack or me; and all my old feeling about his mysteriousness came back.
Just as Jack and I had finished our calculations by discovering that we hadn't enough ready money to settle up with the customs for ourselves and Pat, the Stormy Petrel "hovered in the offing.
With the little I knew of affairs between them I was still instinctively sure that Pat and the Stormy Petrel had come to some sort of a vague understanding the day of rain at Bretton Woods.
It is pretty to see the snow petrel and Antarctic petrel diving on to the upturned and flooded floes.
Wilson shot a number of Antarctic petrel and snowy petrel.
A flight of Antarctic petrel accompanied the ship for some distance, wheeling to and fro about her rather than following in the wake as do the more northerly sea birds.
The Antarctic petrel has a pretty crouching attitude.
Dewey's fleet then anchored near the city, leaving the gunboat Petrel to complete the destruction of the smaller Spanish boats that remained, which was done.
The line officers of the Petrel were: Commander Edward P.
She was, in fact, a storm petrel in the guise of woman.
Flinders saw more of the sooty-petrel on his subsequent voyage round Tasmania; and it will be convenient to quote here the passage in which he refers to the prodigious numbers in which the birds were seen.
The remark that the egg of the sooty petrel is of enormous size is of course only true relatively to the size of the bird.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "petrel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
