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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
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There are furthermore the stork and the seamew; and the seamew, by the way, is ashen-coloured.
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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
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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
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"It is desolate," said I. "Not even a seamew or a gull."
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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I learned from the seamew that you were spending the night here.
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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 1907
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Oh, if our souls could transmigrate I'd be a seamew above all birds that fly!
Beyond the City Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Oh, if our souls could transmigrate I'd be a seamew above all birds that fly!
Beyond the City 1893
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SCREAMS round the Arch-druid's brow the seamew -- white
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS IN SERIES, 1821-22. III. TREPIDATION OF THE DRUIDS 1888
jodi commented on the word seamew
seaplane or gull per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamew
December 6, 2015