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Half a century later, the Japanese quietly took this name and fashioned out of it a Japanese one for their virgin isles: Senkaku, or "Pinnacled Pavilions".The islands were filled with the deafening cries of breeding boobies , terns and the "Gigantic petrel", by which Belcher presumably meant the short-tailed albatross.
On St Thomas, these planes fly so close to the cruise ships and ferry boats (almost as close as the boobies who swoop past with their fresh-caught, wriggling fish) that a deviation from the flight path would crash the seaplane into a cruise ship or ferry in less than ten seconds.In this section Shifting pocketbook politics Blame the weather All aboard!
By January 24th, only 12 sea lions, six turtles and some 50 seabirds (pelicans and blue-footed boobies ) had been injured; four pelicans died.
Perched on Louie's Ledge, a sharp ridge of trachyte, a white and disconcertingly crumbly volcanic rock that sticks out about 400 metres above the ocean, you can look down on the teeming terns, frigatebirds and boobies of Boatswain Island.
To write a tolerable book on most subjects is generally supposed to require some labour, some reflection, and some practised habits of composition, but when the subject is to describe a country or a nation, the public seems to suppose that everybody,—boys just out of college, ensigns in the guards, fine ladies, and titled boobies , can write a respectable book.
It seems harsh to ridicule people for being interesting.Francis Wheen's golden age is the Enlightenment, and he is scathing in his treatment of the pedantic wafflers and superstitious boobies who seek to undermine its legacy of reason and conscience.
Tourists, in carefully regimented parties, are ferried round to gawp at close quarters at blue-footed boobies and marine iguanas.
Local officials lacked equipment and training; a team from the United States' coastguard which specialises in unloading oil from wrecked tankers arrived only after much of it had leaked.In this section Venezuela's revolution reaches the classroom Defence dilemmas Dodging downdrafts Tar-footed boobies in the Galapagos On the brink ReprintsFortunately, the weather came to the rescue.
At least 877 dolphins and more than 1,500 birds, most of them brown pelicans and boobies , have died since the government began tracking the deaths in February, the Environment Ministry said last week.
Herons have spearlike bills and trigger mechanisms in the neck for catching fish, while kingfishers, terns, and boobies plunge into the water after similar prey.
Though traditionally considered part of the order Pelecaniformes, frigate birds are grouped by some taxonomists with anhingas (family Anhingidae), boobies and gannets (family Sulidae), and cormorants (family Phalacrocoracidae) in the order Suliformes on the basis of genetic evidence.
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The primary grammatical function of "boobies" is as a plural noun , referring to breasts. It can also refer to a type of bird, as seen in the examples provided by Ludwig. The noun functions as the subject or object in the sentence.
Expression frequency: Very common
