The two children had grounded their boat on a little pebble beach between the rocks, and were sitting on a big tuft of sea pinks, munching handfuls of the sweet dulse and watching the solan at his fishing.
Nothing; and then the Guardian of the North will claim you and your woman, and Salensus Oll, when he sees your dead bodies, will never dream that the hand of Solanhad aught to do with the thing.
I had followed but a short distance when I came upon the room in which Solan formerly had held sway.
I knew that if I were to throw it in time to save the oncoming fleet it must be done in the next few seconds, and so I tried my old rushing tactics; but I might as well have rushed a brick wall for all that Solan gave way.
Having satisfied himself that the amount was correct, Solan replaced the money in the pouch and rose from the table.
No, fool, there is a better way--a better way for Solan to keep thy money and be revenged upon Salensus Oll.
When you have passed beyond this chamber in your flight, what can prevent Solan replacing the switch as it was before your vile hand touched it?
Think you that for your happiness Solan will give up his life?
Solan opened the pouch and with trembling fingers counted its contents.
Like a tiger he turned upon me, and I was quick to see why Solan had been chosen for this important duty.
I was fighting to reach the switch, Solan to prevent me; and, though we stood not three feet from it, I could not win an inch toward it, for he forced me back an inch for the first five minutes of our battle.
A long flight of solan geese could just be seen slowly sailing along the westward horizon.
This rock is inhabited by immense flocks of birds, particularly gannets, or Solan geese; and is rented from the Earl of Cassilis at L33 a year.
The solan keekit doun into Tam's face, and there was something unco in the creature's ee.
And it seemed the solan understood about knives, for nae suner did the steel glint in the sun than he gied the ae squawk, but laigher, like a body disappointit, and flegged aff about the roundness of the craig, and Tam saw him nae mair.
It chanced, ye see, that Tam keeked up, and he was awaur of a muckle solan, and the solan pyking at the line.
There never was the solan made that wroucht as that solan wroucht; and it seemed to understand it's employ brawly, birzing the saft rope between the neb of it and a crunkled jag o' stane.
It'll be the mair pleisand a change for the solan geese, then," quoth Andie dryly.
He had charge besides of thesolan geese that roosted in the crags; and from these an extraordinary income is derived.
The origin of the names solan or soland, sulan, sula and haf-sula, which are evidently all closely related, is not so obvious.
St Kilda] informs us that 'some imagine that the word solan comes from the Irish souler, corrupted and adapted to the Scottish language, qui oculis irretortis e longinquo respiciat praedam.
For I judged that James Bannatyne did not spend his nights out of bed in order to wile a few solan geese off the rocks of Ailsa.
He has been away ower by at the Craig trying to win the harvest of the solan geese and sea-parrots.
The flesh of the Solan goose is deprived in a similar manner of its naturally rank and fishy flavour.
This, however, is apt to be found in the older birds, but can be removed by burying them in the earth for several days, just as is done with the solan goose and one or two other sea-birds.
In consequence of this derivation, several writers have thought that the Shalak might be the Solan goose, or gannet, a bird which lives on fish, and always takes its prey by darting down upon it from a height.
There never was the solan made that wroucht as that solan wroucht; and it seemed to understand its employ brawly, birzing the saft rope between the neb of it and a crunkled jag o' stane.
He had charge, besides, of the solan geese that roosted in the crags; and from these an extraordinary income is derived.
It chanced, ye see, that Tam keekit up, and he was awaur of a muckle solan, and the solan pyking at the line.
It'll be the mair pleisand a change for the solan geese, then," quoth Andie drily.
Another time, at the very death of Clarissa, King Corny would have Harry out to see a Solan goose.
Clarissa die another time; come now, you that never saw a Solan goose--it looks for all the world as if it wore spectacles; Moriarty says so.
In fact, there ought to be solan schoolboards and parochial boards on the Bass Rock; and commissioners appointed to inquire whether the building of nests might not be conducted on more scientific principles.
If a solan is known to eat on an average fifty herrings a day, just think of the millions on millions of fish that must go to feed those nests on the Bass Rock!
However, at luncheon the Laird was much more serious; for he was showing to us how remiss the Government was in not taking up the great solan question.
The taste for baked Solan Geese, however, is not so prevalent as formerly, and the custom seems likely to die out.
The Gannet or Solan Goose, the Sula bassana of Brisson and modern naturalists, is one of the most pelagic of birds.
Poultry, Edinburgh, all lawful days in the week, wind and weather serving, good and fresh solan geese.
The reference is to the passage in Gerarde's "Herbal," giving an account of the miraculous origin of the Solan Goose.
The solan keekit doon into Tam's face, and there was something unco in the creature's ee.
And it seemed the solan understood about knives, for nae suner did the steel glint in the sun than he gied the ae squawk, but laighter, like a body disappointit, and flegged aff about the roundness of the craig, and Tam saw him nae mair.
At the British breeding-stations of the gannet, or Solan goose, thousands of birds breed annually, though in numbers less than formerly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
