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- 1908, J. Bell Pettigrew, Design in Nature, vol 3, Longmans, Green, and Co., page 1280
- The gannet has, consequently, less than half of the wing area of the heron.
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- 2000, Kate Atkinson, Emotionally Weird: A Novel, page 259
- He was covered in food from head to toe, not just the stewed apples but a variety of suspect stains which Bob helpfully mapped - 'Marmite, Ambrosia Creamed Rice, Ready Brek - this thing's a gannet.'
- 2002, Elizabeth Chadwick, Lords of the White Castle, page 315
- 'I never realised that you had the appetite of a gannet.'
- 2004, Steve Morris, Pod and the Sexy Dream Club, page 165
- We called him the gannet, because he just couldn't resist food.
- 2005, Philip McCutchan, Halfhyde for the Queen, page 61
- "If we are hungry! The quality looked poor certainly, but I shall fall to like a gannet."
- Stanley said, "Eat it all, my dear fellow, I have no appetite, only thirst."
- 2005, Kevin Muir, Run for Freedom: Kick Up the Sectarian Dirt, page 281
- Fixing Toby his meal and a fresh drink, Tommy knew that if the 'gannet' dog turned his nose up at the food then there was indisputably something seriously wrong.