2000, Kate Atkinson, Emotionally Weird: A Novel, page 259
He was covered in food from head to toe, not just the stewed apples but a variety of suspect stains which Bob helpfully mapped - 'Marmite, Ambrosia Creamed Rice, Ready Brek - this thing's a gannet.'
2002, Elizabeth Chadwick, Lords of the White Castle, page 315
'I never realised that you had the appetite of a gannet.'
2004, Steve Morris, Pod and the Sexy Dream Club, page 165
We called him the gannet, because he just couldn't resist food.
2005, Philip McCutchan, Halfhyde for the Queen, page 61
"If we are hungry! The quality looked poor certainly, but I shall fall to like a gannet."
Stanley said, "Eat it all, my dear fellow, I have no appetite, only thirst."
2005, Kevin Muir, Run for Freedom: Kick Up the Sectarian Dirt, page 281
Fixing Toby his meal and a fresh drink, Tommy knew that if the 'gannet' dog turned his nose up at the food then there was indisputably something seriously wrong.
