"Auk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... however, take place, since within comparatively few years whole species have completely disappeared; for example, the great auk and the passenger pigeon. In these cases it is not known what part ...
— Disease and Its Causes • William Thomas Councilman
... The Great Auk's ghost rose on one leg, Sighed thrice and three times winkt, And turned and poached a phantom egg, ...
— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps
... lies in the fact I have already noted. It is exactly the popular story that is left out of the popular history. For instance, even a working man, a carpenter or cooper or bricklayer, has been taught about the Great Charter, as something like the Great Auk, save that its almost monstrous solitude came from being before its time instead of after. He was not taught that the whole stuff of the Middle Ages was stiff with the parchment of charters; that society ...
— A Short History of England • G. K. Chesterton |
