Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A local name of various birds
- noun A fish, the sapphirine gurnard, Trigla hirundo.
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Examples
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The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud
A Visit from Uncle Walt Bruce Schauble 2007
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The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud
Archive 2007-02-01 Bruce Schauble 2007
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As Monsieur le Curé plunged in his long rake and drew it back heavy with those excellent bivalves for which the restaurant at The Three Wolves has long been famous, his tall black figure, silhouetted against the distant sea and sky, reminded me of some great sea-crow fishing for its breakfast.
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The horizons edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud;
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The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance
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The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud,
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud; --
Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855
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When the flying fish is weary of the air, or thinketh himself out of danger, he returneth to the water, where the albicore meeteth him; but sometimes his other enemy, the sea-crow, catcheth him in the air before he falleth.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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-- "I know it," cried the conjurer, "thou art a northern crow, -- a sea-crow; not a crow of prey, but
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746
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