Mostly white web-footed tropical seabird often found far from land.
1We now met the first tropic bird we had seen in this sea.
2The next morning we saw a tropic bird and some fish.
3The tropic bird is a species of gull, about the size of a partridge.
4She was like a tropic bird seen amid the scant foliage of northern hills.
5The brilliant Renee, many-hued as a tropic bird!
6Giving him one frightened glance, she turned and sped like some strange tropic bird upon the wind.
7This day we saw a tropic bird.
8Tom, the Rotuman, grinned-"ToFiji, my white tropic bird."
9She knew now it was only some huge, tropic bird, afar on the horizon-somecondor, vulture, or other creature of the air.
10You seem, in your scarlet boating-dress, Annie, like some bright tropic bird, alit for a moment beside that other bird of the tropics, flame.
11Or flights of the tropic bird, known among seamen as the "boatswain," wheeled round and round us, whistling shrilly as they flew.
12When half-way across the point, I came suddenly upon a magnificent male tropic bird, sitting in his nest behind a tussock of tall, reedy grass.
13And she, to whom warmth and colour were a very part of her nature, was an exotic, a lost tropic bird, in these icy mountains.
14Gannets, boobies, men of war and tropic birds, were constantly about us.
15There were probably a greater number of tropic birds than of any others.
16Tropic birds look like staring toys out of a toy-shop.
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