Meanings of tropic bird in английском

We now met the first tropic bird we had seen in this sea.

The next morning we saw a tropic bird and some fish.

The tropic bird is a species of gull, about the size of a partridge.

She was like a tropic bird seen amid the scant foliage of northern hills.

The brilliant Renee, many-hued as a tropic bird!

Giving him one frightened glance, she turned and sped like some strange tropic bird upon the wind.

This day we saw a tropic bird.

Tom, the Rotuman, grinned-"ToFiji, my white tropic bird."

She knew now it was only some huge, tropic bird, afar on the horizon-somecondor, vulture, or other creature of the air.

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.

Or flights of the tropic bird, known among seamen as the "boatswain," wheeled round and round us, whistling shrilly as they flew.

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.

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.

Gannets, boobies, men of war and tropic birds, were constantly about us.

There were probably a greater number of tropic birds than of any others.

Tropic birds look like staring toys out of a toy-shop.