"Gannet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a gannet; and the clouds remained so fixed in the west that I had little doubt of our being near the land. The people, after taking their allowance of water for supper, amused themselves with conversing on the probability of what ...
— A Voyage to the South Sea • William Bligh
... M. we drew near to Gannet Rocks. These are three in number, all high, one quite small and conical, a second somewhat larger, the third, which is the home of gannets, several acres in extent. They were all ruddy, being of red sandstone; and the smallest, in that warm light, was actual carmine. The largest ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 • Various |
