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  • Between the blueness of the sea and the sky he passes easy as a gull, close to the fine white seamew of his mate, amid red flowers of flags, and soft birds of ships, and slow-moving monsters of steamboats.

    The Trespasser 2003

  • There are furthermore the stork and the seamew; and the seamew, by the way, is ashen-coloured.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • Oh, if our souls could transmigrate I'd be a seamew above all birds that fly!

    Beyond the City Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1982

  • To add to the effect of the landscape, silence the most absolute brooded over it, except when the scream of a seamew, wheeling about drowsily in the sunny air, broke upon the ear.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831 Various

  • "It is desolate," said I. "Not even a seamew or a gull."

    My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

  • I learned from the seamew that you were spending the night here.

    The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1922

  • Between the blueness of the sea and the sky he passes easy as a gull, close to the fine white seamew of his mate, amid red flowers of flags, and soft birds of ships, and slow-moving monsters of steamboats.

    The Trespasser 1907

  • Oh, if our souls could transmigrate I'd be a seamew above all birds that fly!

    Beyond the City Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Oh, if our souls could transmigrate I'd be a seamew above all birds that fly!

    Beyond the City 1893

  • SCREAMS round the Arch-druid's brow the seamew -- white

    ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS IN SERIES, 1821-22. III. TREPIDATION OF THE DRUIDS 1888

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