solan
IPA: sˈoʊɫʌn
noun
- solan goose
- A surname.
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Examples of "solan" in Sentences
- The very pickmaws and solan-geese out-bye yonder at the Bass hae ten times their sense!
- A long flight of solan geese could just be seen slowly sailing along the western horizon.
- In severe winters, flocks of solan geese, locally denominated "barnacles," frequent the shores.
- They cackled after me like solan-geese, but I shut and locked the door in their faces and led Aileen to her room.
- Beyond the keeper of the lighthouse there are only one or two families of poor fisher-folk, who sustain a precarious existence by their nets, and by the capture of cormorants and solan geese.
- Here Banks provided the Christmas dinner, shooting several solan geese, which were made into a pie, and were “eaten with great approbation; and in the evening all hands were as drunk as our forefathers used to be upon like occasions.”
- The dinner was made up chiefly of Scottish national dainties, and everything went well, save that the solan goose, a fragrant bird at all times, proved so underdone that Mr. Oldbuck threatened to fling it at the head of the housekeeper.
- When that reverenced ascetic went to take up his residence in the wave-bounded solitude of the Farne Islands, he found the solan-geese there imbued with the wild habits common to their storm-nurtured race, and totally unconscious of the civilisation and refinement of their kinsmen who graze on commons, and hiss at children and dogs.
- Now and again you could see a solan dart down from the blue heavens into the blue of the sea, sending up a spurt of water twenty feet high as he disappeared; and far out there, between the red precipices and the ruffled waters beneath, white sea-fowl flew from crag to crag or dropped down upon the sea to rise and fall with the waves.
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