This crowded museum of birds, beasts, and fish-skarts, goosanders, sand-grouse, terns, eagles, ospreys, squirrels, foxes, big-snouted trout, harts, hinds, bucks, does, owls, kestrels, falcons, merlins, and every variety of the common gull shot by the all-pervading Cockney-staring, stuffed, silent, they were a confusion to the eyes, and nowhere could he find his own, his particular, his precious stag.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
"No, no, better go down to the beach and watch the puffins flying over the sea, and the terns fishing about the low lying land.
"An Orkney Maid"
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
But no swans were there, only the greedy gulls that sought after wreckage, and the terns that cried very dolorously.
"A Book of Myths"
Jean Lang