visitant
Example Sentences
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At Clear Lake, the western grebe is a breeding bird and also a winter visitant, attracted by the abundant fish of the lake.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2017
That humanity might in its progress be freed more and more from this unwelcome visitant was the purpose with which the National Crime Commission was organized.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Clear Lake the western grebe is a breeding bird and also a winter visitant, attracted by the abundant fish of the lake.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
I rang the bell, for I wanted a candle; and I wanted, too, to get an account of this visitant.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Here we lay at anchor, an Austrian frigate, surely a most unwonted visitant, from the afternoon till the following morning without one single boat coming off to visit us!
