I can show you," she said, "where the seagulls build, and I can tell you the very spot in the sea where the sun goes down night after night.
There are some baby seagulls in one of the nests, but I daren't go very near for the mother bird is so strong.
Five years ago, you showed Aynesworth where the seagulls built.
The seagulls were wheeling, white-winged and noiseless, above their heads; the air was fragrant with the scent of cottage flowers.
About their heads theseagulls whirled and shrieked.
I have never forgotten the little girl in short frocks and long black hair, who showed me where the seagulls built, and told me Cornish fairy stories.
Over our heads the seagulls were lazily drifting and wheeling, the quiet sea stole almost noiselessly up the firm yellow sands.
Overhead the seagulls in great flocks were returning from shelter, screaming as though with joy as they dived down to the sea.
Bluey was frightened almost out of his wits, but with the encouragement of the other seagulls he managed to fly off.
When Mr. and Mrs. Seagull saw what had happened to Bluey they were horrified and quickly flew off with him, all the other little seagulls following.
Of course the little seagulls were quite certain that nothing like that would ever happen, but one day it did.
He was not badly hit, for the pilot of the boat had seen the seagullsand made the boat slow down.
Mrs. Seagull said: "'We will never leave this home until all little seagulls are grown up, for then they will always be safe and can play all they want to without being afraid of getting hit by the big boats.
The captain of the boat had blown the whistle to scare the seagulls away.
And of all the seagulls he was the happiest and most relieved.
The seagulls would fly overhead, and then they'd land on top of the water, but they never could stay there long, as the boats would come along, and they would have to fly off.
The reefs are still there on which the men landed from the boats, carrying women and children ashore; by day and by night white seagulls take turns to mark the place--and have done so through centuries.
The land was poor, two or three acres of downs where a few sheep struggled for their food, and this was all that remained of a large farm which had once been there, and where now seagulls flocked screaming over the white surf.
When there was a moon, the rag and bone man would go down and with his wooden shoe break the ice round the seagulls and wild ducks, which were frozen in the lake, and then carry them home under his snow-covered cape.
Beneath them thundered the surf, water and air and sand in one yellow ferment, and over it seagulls and other sea birds, shrieking and whipping the air with their wings.
The seagulls came flying from the reefs to have a look at the intruder, screamed like little children and hurried away again.
He made some coffee on her spirit lamp, and they drank it while the sun was rising and the seagulls screamed.
But as his more forward foot began to sink he heard again the cries of the seagulls which seemed to restore his benumbed faculties.
The blow-hole, which ran under the Flagstaff Rock, from the rocky bay without to the harbour within, was booming at intervals, and the seagulls were screaming ceaselessly as they wheeled about the entrance of the port.
Above him the seagulls screamed, circling round the fringe of the incoming tide, and the sound being entirely mortal recalled him to himself.
Then it is to the old country I'm going, Sara, back to the sea wind, the song of the lark, and the call of the seagulls on the bay.
The birds sang around him, the sea lisped its soft whispers on the sea below, the song of a fisherman out on the bay came up on the breeze, the rabbits scudded across his path, and the seagulls floated slowly above him.
Seagulls squatted on the flat roof, as they have day in and day out.
Changing my clothes, putting on new sandals, I walked to the pier and the seagulls screamed and we waited and waited.
Warthah," said Braintree, "except my wifle to let fly at the seagulls with.
There are plenty of seagulls about without you to croak, too.
It was a long time before he came upon them, perched in a group on the highest point of the island, and singing "Rule Britannia" in a lusty chorus which sent the scared seagulls flying to right and left.
Looking down from the ramparts into the deep clear chrysoprase water is in itself a delight, and watching the fish rising and leaping with sparkling showers, and the great white seagulls swooping down upon them.
Then there were seagulls and ravens, and butterflies, and ballet girls with butterflies' wings, and a man with artificial wings being fastened on, and you could see he was just going to jump off a rock.
Seagulls are not commonly made pets of, the nearest approach to such adoption being an occasional pinioned individual enjoying qualified liberty in a backyard.
The seagulls had also discovered its beauty, for thousands hovered about it, and the small harbor was alive with them.
And most wonderful of all, the summer before, seagulls had appeared, seagulls coming all the way up from the coast to settle on the fields there in the wilderness.
The seagulls floated in mid-air above the sea, and the autumn trees waved their golden clusters in the breeze.
The seagulls flew about the masthead and dipped into the blue water.
The only sounds that reached its quiet were the far-off screaming of the seagulls as they fought for their food at low tide, and the distant boom-boom of the surging sea on the beach of the backside.
She sat on the wharf late one afternoon, dangling her bare legs over its edge, and watched the sails and the circling seagulls and everything within sight and waited for Mart and Lavender to join her as they had agreed.
Young Einar Eindridson, ever full of sport and play, had perched himself astride of the yardarm, and there, with his longbow and arrows shot at the seagulls as they flew by.
Then stepping nearer to the stranger he stood upright and said, almost in a whisper, as though fearing that even the seagulls might overhear him: "I am King Triggvi's son.
Seagulls are a very distinct tribe of birds, mostly lovers of the sea, yet from time to time showing themselves inland.
A great number of seagulls were chasing the fugitive, but could not make enough speed to catch it.
Illustration: "A great number of seagulls were chasing the fugitive.
Seagulls will also give chase to birds of other species they may come across.
On the very day after the birth of Alwyn's heir something strange occurred: a large flight of curious seagulls alighted in the park around Dunallan Towers.
As she slept Ruth thought of many things, of the seagulls soaring overhead, of her lost punt, of the booming, bursting shells, of the old ship Black Gull and of the strange secret room in the depths of old Fort Skammel.
She was startled from her sleep a half hour later by a resounding boom that shook the rugged island to its base and set a thousand seagulls soaring and screaming as only seagulls can.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seagulls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
