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loon
1. On top of having to deal with her son being a fucking loon now, my mother was still being bombarded by Scientologist's phone calls telling her not to let me take these drugs or those drugs
2. Alone on her wild lake, Loon has been listening
3. That guy Horn-Rims was a fucking loon
4. the haunting cries of the exquisite loon
5. I told him Tiberias had heard the loon call when he rode through the gate on his mule, with his glassy stare
6. Something called to them from the deeps of the forest, something the men call a loon, for lack of a better name, but only the doomed ones could hear it
7. The cry of the loon slides across the lake
8. And mingles with the water, the loon,
9. She smiled and they sipped their orange juice as a loon, far out on the lake, called for its mate in the distance
10. ” Now I know he is a loon but keep quiet, not wishing to antagonize the guy with the gun
11. “Crazy as a loon
12. loon; luckily, he had two local hunting guides with him
13. I've no idea which loon goes in there
14. ---Only to observe Nightfall loping away, cackling like some crazed loon under a great, grinning moon
15. And the wail of the loon
16. He would have been regarded as a crazy loon
17. crazy as a loon
18. ” Then he honked the car horn like a crazy loon and whooped it up like a
19. “I could not believe that such a man had even been a poor governor of California in a bad year, let alone that such a smart country would put up with such an obvious phony and loon
20. "What now?" asked the scout; "the lake is as smooth as if the winds had never blown, and I can see along its sheet for miles; there is not so much as the black head of a loon dotting the water
21. This morning, the whole mute breadth of Long Island was trying to tell him something: that he was a fucking coward, that he should have been back there with Sam, instead of here on this train, with the pajama bottoms on his unjeaned legs and this hat on his head so he looked like a fucking loon
22. ” Under his breath, Charlie began to hum, both to calm himself down and because maybe that way the conductor would take him for an actual loon and pass him by
23. Mostly I was trying to defend my reputation, to make sure people didn’t think I was a loon
24. A loon is he that will not sing:
25. A loon flew over the sky, crying
26. The sky was a loon sky—promising much, delivering little
27. You’ll make me crazy as a loon
28. At most, it tolerates one annual loon
29. In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen
30. They come rustling through the woods like autumn leaves, at least ten men to one loon
31. But now the kind October wind rises, rustling the leaves and rippling the surface of the water, so that no loon can be heard or seen, though his foes sweep the pond with spy-glasses, and make the woods resound with their discharges
32. As I was paddling along the north shore one very calm October afternoon, for such days especially they settle on to the lakes, like the milkweed down, having looked in vain over the pond for a loon, suddenly one, sailing out from the shore toward the middle a few rods in front of me, set up his wild laugh and betrayed himself
33. It was a pretty game, played on the smooth surface of the pond, a man against a loon
34. But why, after displaying so much cunning, did he invariably betray himself the moment he came up by that loud laugh? Did not his white breast enough betray him? He was indeed a silly loon, I thought
35. At length having come up fifty rods off, he uttered one of those prolonged howls, as if calling on the god of loons to aid him, and immediately there came a wind from the east and rippled the surface, and filled the whole air with misty rain, and I was impressed as if it were the prayer of the loon answered, and his god was angry with me; and so I left him disappearing far away on the tumultuous surface
36. Perhaps I shall hear a solitary loon laugh as he dives and plumes himself, or shall see a lonely fisher in his boat, like a floating leaf, beholding his form reflected in the waves, where lately a hundred men securely labored
37. On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whip-poor-will, the brown thrasher, the veery, the wood pewee, the chewink, and other birds
38. Van Loon, who found it, is only a part of two crystals connected at their bases
