The pelicans were there in force, competing for space with seagulls and a giant snowy egret.

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The beach they go to has real sand, lots of it, with blankets and beach umbrellas, salt water, a refreshment stand, seagulls, dead crabs, sandbars, waves.

NEWYORKER: Getting Closer

Tony Pulis's side were helped on their way by Seagulls stopper Brezovan, who will not look back on this match with great fondness.

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She did not tell anyone that she spent much of her time looking out at the Pacific from empty beaches, some of them narrow with coarse sand, though farther north many of the beaches were rocky, desolate in the falling dusk, when seagulls circled hungrily and waves deposited dead seaweed.

NEWYORKER: Alone