sea mew

noun

1. another name for mew 1

Example Sentences

The sea mews, flapping slowly past with their feet hanging, cried them good luck; and the thyme clinging close as moss to the ground, sent them delicate greeting, "like dawn in Paradise."

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And his body did swing, a horrible thing, At the sport of the wild sea mew!

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The waves murmur, the sea mews scream, Old recollections possess me; Forgotten dreams, banished visions, Tormentingly sweet, uprise.

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Ye screaming sea mews in the concert join!

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On the little jetty at the Anchor Close my father sat on an upturned herring creel, smoking his pipe, and watching a flock of sea mews floating gracefully on the green water.

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