Mother Carey's chicken
Example Sentences
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I am never tired of the calms, and I enjoy a stiff gale like a Mother Carey’s chicken, so long as I can be on deck or in the captain’s cabin.
From Letters from the Cape by Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady
We had him, now on our weather bow, and now crossing our course, and, once in a while, in our wake, as if he had been a Mother Carey's chicken looking for our crumbs.
From The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas by Cooper, James Fenimore
It is known to every English sailor by the name of Mother Carey's chicken.
From Wanderings in South America by Waterton, Charles
You don’t want me to take in sail surely with this wind, you old Mother Carey’s chicken?
From Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)
The cape petrel, or pintado bird; the small blue one, which is always seen at sea, and the small black one, or Mother Carey's chicken, are not here in great numbers.
