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