"Petrel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... over it when Archey, that stormy petrel of bad news, came in and very soon took her ...
— Mary Minds Her Business • George Weston
... migratorius) is, or rather was, excessively abundant in a certain area in North America, and its enormous migrating flocks darkening the sky for hours have often been described; yet this bird lays only two eggs. The fulmar petrel exists in myriads at St. Kilda and other haunts of the species, yet it lays only one egg. On the other hand the great shrike, the tree-creeper, the nut-hatch, the nut-cracker, the hoopoe, and many other birds, lay from four to six or seven eggs, and yet are never ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... Penguin Point where Cape Pigeon and Silver Petrel rookeries were found; the site of ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson
... reach, Then break and hurry to their utmost stretch; Curl'd as they come, they strike with furious force, And then re-flowing, take their grating course, Raking the rounded flints, which ages past Roll'd by their rage, and shall to ages last. Far off the Petrel in the troubled way Swims with her brood, or flutters in the spray; She rises often, often drops again, And sports at ease on the tempestuous main. High o'er the restless deep, above the reach Of gunner's hope, vast flights of Wild-ducks ...
— The Borough • George Crabbe
... then," said Fritz, levelling his rifle at a petrel, "the misfortunes of the one constitute the ...
— Willis the Pilot • Paul Adrien
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