In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen.
A more serious charge against van loon was the sloppiness of his scholarship.
He was indeed a silly loon, I thought.
"What a loon," thought Governor Palin.
First she calls me a liar, and now I'm a loon.
His struggle to understand and accept his father's limitations echoes our own: he gives us a reason not to write Walter off as a hopeless loon.
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden pond itself.
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