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Definition of Mollymawks
1. mollymawk [n] - See also: mollymawk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mollymawks
Literary usage of Mollymawks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Log-letters from "The Challenger" by George Campbell (1877)
"At the foot of the hill we crossed a corner of the rookery, and then came to a
dirty puddle among the grass, round and in which mollymawks were nesting and ..."
2. The Spiritual Magazine (1862)
"THE mollymawks OF LITERATURE. VOYAGERS in the tropical seas are familiar with
large birds of the gull kind called mollymawks, which follow the ship for ..."
3. By the Great Wall: Letters from China by Isabella Burgess Riggs Williams (1909)
"A hook and line baited with pork was very attractive to the Cape pigeons, mollymawks
and albatrosses. Such a splashing and fighting in the water as they ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1847)
"... mollymawks,' and the magnificent albatross. Several of these last which were
caught were much larger in the body than a goose, ..."
5. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1915)
"... little auks, kittiwakes, fulmars or mollymawks, and various species of Arctic
gulls, form a very characteristic feature of Arctic scenery. ..."
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