Long-winged bird that skims the ocean

Usage examples of shearwater.

Hence we have Awndyn, and the Aver-Falconets, and Shearwater, all owing to the power of ships.

Condamine, Shearwater, and the multitude of other states making up the so-called civilized galaxy shared at least one common language, inherited from old parent Earth, which fact tended to make events like this boarding a little less difficult for all concerned.

Sure, as long as Shearwater supports them with material, they can burrow under the mountains, cling to life, to some kind of military organization.

These birds had a wing spread of three feet, and must have belonged to the shearwater family.

When he launched himself again it was to run on the water, like a shearwater, until he had acquired momentum enough to keep him up.

The boatmen called a shearwater, the kind I have seen all over the Pacific, a mutton bird.

The conquerors had restored the lights along the quayside, and torches illuminated the dock where the captured Stippenese merchant clipper Shearwater was tied up.

Bluefish Bay partly cloudy and the wind no longer so strong as to preclude any sort of delicate maneuvering, Hartrig Skellhaven suggested to Prince Conrig that they might risk taking Shearwater through the tricky channel separating the mainland from the Vigilants, rather than skirting the islands as prudent navigators invariably did.

He had slept for more than twelve hours and eaten nothing since Shearwater had quit Mallburn harbor, but if he suffered nightmares he said nothing of it to Conrig or Stergos.

Inn over at Shearwater and would take her on to the Cascades in the morning.

To be sure, they are less sharply black and white than those of the Atlantic, but they are shearwaters for all that - the same voice by night in their burrows, the same solitary white egg, the same grossly obese chick.

What I am trying to convey is that the Shearwaters have always been opportunistic parasites without an ounce of morality between them.

This is a common habit of many sea birds, especially the shearwaters, but I had never before seen it performed so swiftly and wonderfully.

He liked sargasso weed, as he liked shearwaters, which spoke to him of freedom, and sharks, which spoke to him of order, and dolphins, which spoke to him of God.

The terns, the sandpipers, gulls, shearwaters, egrets, and curlews seemed to have vanished.