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A Great Auk, rare in those parts, was seen walking on the beach; it was captured and put on trial for instigating the fatal storm.
The Blame Game Dave Shiflett 2012
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The ghost of Hitler would referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon.
"Violence Never Solves Anything" UndercoverPunk 2004
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The ghost of Hitler would referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon.
Archive 2004-09-01 UndercoverPunk 2004
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'The old Pioneer is now dead,' he told us, 'as dead as the Dodo or the Great Auk.
Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910
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Big, shaggy, bearded, he was of the ancient and puissant type that, under the tidal wave of "specialism" is fast being swept towards the shores where live the last survivors of the Great Auk, the Dinosaur, and the Spread
The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play David Belasco 1892
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There was a fine bird, yet not equal to these giants, named the Great Auk, which used to be found at the North of Scotland, and elsewhere.
Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873
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The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon.
The Liberty Papers 2009
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Where McGrain's Passenger Pigeon, like his Great Auk, is vertical in orientation, his Carolina Parakeet is horizontal, its beak tucked backward into its neck, its long slender tail extending straight out as it descends gradually towards the floor.
CounterPunch 2008
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Haunted Cry of a Long Gone Bird (Video Tape: 60 Minutes, Color) (Retraces the Migration Route of the Great Auk, a Large Flight-less Seabird Driven to Extinction in the 1840s, VHS) by NOVA
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For his Lost Bird Project, McGrain has chosen four North American species and one of the North Atlantic and lower Arctic: the Passenger Pigeon, the Labrador Duck, the Heath Hen (an extinct subspecies of the Greater Prairie-Chicken), the Carolina Parakeet, and the Great Auk.
CounterPunch 2008
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