Now it looked as if the loon had gone under the ice to rescue its friend from a dangerous situation, for had not the grebe soon found the air, it must have perished, and persons who witnessed the incident interpreted it in this way.
"Ways of Nature"
John Burroughs
The grebe itself could doubtless have broken the ice had it desired to.
"Ways of Nature"
John Burroughs
Coots, however, were common everywhere, but this water was the only breeding-place of the grebe in our neighbourhood; yet here we could find scores of nests any day-scores with eggs and a still greater number of false nests, and we could never tell which had eggs in it before pulling off the covering of wet weeds.
"Far Away and Long Ago"
W. H. Hudson