Lexicographical Neighbors of Dovekeys
Literary usage of Dovekeys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Lieutenant Joseph Renbe Bellot ...: With His Journal of a Voyage by Joseph Renbe Bellot, Julien Lemer (1855)
"Kennedy and Smith shot on the surface of the water twenty dovekeys, two gulls,
and a kittiwake. 13th and Uth July.—This morning I went with Mr. Smith to the ..."
2. The Threshold of the Unknown Region by Clements Robert Markham (1876)
"... a curious malformation (one of its wings being wanting), and several eggs of
the cormorant; besides numerous eggs of looms, dovekeys, and razor-bills. ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"Then the dovekeys, little black guillemots, made their appearance in the open
pools of water a» early as February 18th. On the 23rd there were flocks of ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1865)
"dovekeys, while in the enjoyment of some of the most lovely and striking scenery
that can be met with on thia earth, will be exchanged for an Arctic winter ..."
5. A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia: And an Account of by Albert Hastings Markham, Sherard Osborn (1874)
"We succeeded in shooting eleven king ducks, four long-tailed ducks, and several
looms and dovekeys. The long-tailed duck (Fuligula glacialis) is much ..."
6. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1899)
"... dovekeys of Nansen—are never far off. They dive as we draw near, to reappear
a few yards away and beat the water from their white-banded wings. ..."
7. Memoirs of Lieutenant Joseph Renbe Bellot ...: With His Journal of a Voyage by Julien Lemer, Joseph Renbe Bellot (1855)
""We saw some geese, some fat burgomasters, and some pretty black bodied, coral
legged dovekeys. The latter especialy seem to people the bays along the coast ..."
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