84 Words to use with duck

Her "ducklings" and other symptoms of maternal agony at beholding the feathered darlings tempting the dangers of a neighboring duck-pond, do not move their stony breasts.

An old envelope stuck in a sliver in the door bore the entry in lead- pencil, "Gone Duck Shooting to Plover Slough," for it was the custom of the twins to faithfully chronicle the cause of their absence and their probable location each time they left home, to make it easy to find them in the event of a cablegram from Aunt Patience's solicitors!

He was going to sail the yacht himself, and he was dressed for his work, picturesquely, in white duck trousers, white silk shirt, and black velvet shooting jacket.

"Yeye couldn't use any duck eggs, could ye?" he said, a sudden thought seeming to furnish him with a brilliant idea.

It now appeared somewhat spotted and injured by the duck shot.

He was bandaged up, profusely bleeding, and went stoically down the hill, supported by a companion, leaving a red trail along the wooden duck-boards that paved the trench.

He saw a duck swimming along near the shore and spoke to the bird in this fashion: "'Come here, my brother.'

He then shaped his course through the windings of Little Britain and entered Duck-lane.

You are alarmed now, and there comes to you the admonition of an old duck hunter, who laid down the following three rules for duck shooting, viz: "First, lead them considerably.

Business being finished, Galahad, who presided, stood up, looking, in his white duck suit among his darkly-clad companions, like a white sheep among black ones, and begged leave to order "dlasses" from the front room.

[Illustration: The harm-less Newt is to be seen In stag-nant ponds, with duck-weed green.]

Oh, Maggie, would a duck swim?" he said, keeping his voice low to avoid being heard in the other room.

Near by at a counter a Gentleman Goose in a long apron was weighing feathers on a very small pair of scales, and at his elbow stood a little duck apprentice with the tears running down his cheeks.

" Yesterday the Listers had a duck-shoot.

In parts of Buckinghamshire, this member of the duck family is bred on an extensive scale; not on plains and commons, however, as might be naturally imagined, but in the abodes of the cottagers.

Charlie was an inveterate duck-shooter, and with the return of the season came the return of mud and dirt in my bowls.

Passing through the sitting- room, I reminded Ajax that my duck-gun, an eight-bore, could carry two ounces of buck-shot about one hundred yards.

They had chicken house, goose house, duck house and way off a turkey pen.

The wild duck murders.

This singular mode of duck-hunting is also practised on the Ganges, the earthen vessels of the Hindoos being used instead of calabashes.

If he happen at any time to be at a stand, and any man else begins to speak, he presently drowns him with his noise, as a water-dog makes a duck dive; for when you think he has done he falls on and lets fly again, like a gun that will discharge nine times with one loading.

He helped to revive the failing fire, and then, dropping on the section of sawed wood that did duty for a chair, with some difficulty and a deal of tugging he pulled "the sort o' stone" out of the pocket of his duck shooting-jacket.

This, however, depends much on the political principles of those who happen to be on guard: an aristocrate or a constitutionalist will read a letter with his eyes half shut, and inspect bedding and trunks in a very summary way; while a thorough-paced republican spells every syllable of the longest epistle, and opens all the roasted pigs or duck-pies before he allows their ingress.

This was put in so the tenor could wear his white duck uniform; he had to wear something, and when the management found that he had a white duck uniformevery tenor has, you know, or he wouldn't be a tenorwhen the management found that he had a uniform they took the money they had advanced for costumes away from him and rewrote the first act.

Their front window looked out upon a long, straggling, ill-paved street, with its due proportion of mud heaps and duck pools.

84 Words to use with  duck