"Sea gull" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... two wings of an aeroplane at an angle of three to five degrees to each other is perhaps the oldest way of securing lateral balance. This way readily occurs to anyone who watches a sea gull soaring. The theory of the dihedral angle is that when one wing is lifted by a gust of wind, the air is spilled from under it; while the other wing, being correspondingly depressed, presents a greater resistance to the gust and is lifted restoring the balance. A fixed angle ...
— Flying Machines - Construction and Operation • W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
... broke the stillness save a remote murmuring, until a solitary sea gull rose in the air and circled directly over the tower, uttering its mournful and unmusical cry. Automatically to my mind sprang the ...
— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... have you heard?" she cried. "You asked me to keep a watch whether anything more happened to Mr. Barnes. So I asked some friends of his to let me know of anything. He has a yacht, the Sea Gull, which has been lying off City Island. Well, last night the captain received a message to go to the hospital, that Mr. Barnes wanted to see him. Of course it was a fake. Mr. Barnes was too sick to see anybody on business. But when the captain got ...
— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve
... he answered, turning suddenly to watch a sea gull, which had made a great swoop toward us, as if attracted by the odors of our meal; "that will be an ...
— The House of Martha • Frank R. Stockton
... light canoe Upon Niagara's waters blue, 'Tis white and bright as an ocean shell, Swifter than the sea gull's wing, Worthy the hand that will guide it well, Amid the foam wreaths the wild ...
— The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon (Mrs. R.E. Mullins) • Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon |
