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  • Debby vaguely felt this charm, and, yielding to it, splashed and sang like any beach-bird, while Aunt Pen bobbed placidly up and down in a retired corner, and Mr. Leavenworth swam to and fro, expressing his firm belief in mermaids, sirens, and the rest of the aquatic sisterhood, whose warbling no manly ear can resist.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

  • We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches, -- at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives on the sand, amid the beach-grass and the bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of drift-wood or a few beach-plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beach-bird.

    Cape Cod 1865

  • To see a little trembling dainty-footed cur stand on the margin of the ocean, and ineffectually bark at a beach-bird, amid the roar of the Atlantic!

    Cape Cod 1865

  • He is the true monarch of the beach, whose "right there is none to dispute," and he is as much identified with it as a beach-bird.

    Cape Cod 1865

  • Nor the beach-bird seaward flying with his slant wing to the sun.

    Narrative and Legendary Poems: Barclay of Ury, and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • Nor the beach-bird seaward flying with his slant wing to the sun.

    The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • Nor the beach-bird seaward flying with his slant wing to the sun.

    Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

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