They come not down to mix with the currents of human life in the streets and open spaces; they fly away to the country to feed, and dwell on the cathedral above the houses and people just as sea-birds-kittiwake and guillemot and gannet-dwell on the ledges of some vast ocean-fronting cliff.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
On the way there he had heard of the separation from the boy, Willie Quarrie, a lugubrious Manx lad, eighteen years old, with a face as white as a haddock and as grim as a gannet.
"Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon 1893"
Hall Caine
On the same authority I learn that a Solan goose, or gannet, has been known to visit this stream.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs