From the black waters, almost at her feet, sounded, raucous and loud, the voice of the great loon.

In a pool below one of these falls they surprised a great loon that had resorted here to live solitary through his moulting-season.

Occasionally one and another of them swam up to a goose, or a great loon, or a diving-duck, and said a few words.

I went towards London, and in my way went in to see Crowly, who was now grown a very great loon and very tame.