His line of business at present seems to be the canard line.

Lie (noun), untruth, falsehood, falsity, fiction, fabrication, mendacity, canard, fib, story.

The absurd canards which at an early date gained currency, in Berlinas that the United States had swallowed Canada, that the Afghans in mass were invading; India, that Ireland was plunged in civil warpoint in the same direction; and so do the barbarities of the Teutonic troops in the matters of humanity and art.

Canards à la Rouennaise.

Taking three of them, and luckily finding a quantity of strong grass cordage, he arranged them in the water, and with some cross-pieces, bound the whole together; and, besides, having found two small pieces of board to serve him as paddles, he gallantly launched forth alone, and, in about an hour, effected his object, for he excited the attention of the French brig, 'Canard,' from which a boat came and took him on board.

To be sure, there was a twinkle in the corner of his eye as he stated this novel and interesting fact; but, after all, the fertility in question was not so extravagantly "poefied" by this canard as some may suppose.

[Fr.], flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire [Fr.], scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle, table talk; tittle tattle; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat.

Her few chosen friends, with whom she corresponded on terms of perfect confidence, were among the best people in Londonnot the circulators of club-house canards, the pickers-up of second-hand gossip from the society papers, but actors in the comedy of high life, arbiters of fashion and taste, born and bred in the purple.

Canard à la Rouennaise is good, it is done here with a wine called Grenache.

Sir HENRY NORMAN surprised the police in Palace Yard by arriving on a motor-scooter, and there is an unconfirmed rumour that the Editor of John Bull made his rentrée to the House in a flying-boat drawn by four canards sauvages.

All was sensation and canard, on dit and oui dire, and all was proved false when the liner came through the passage in the reef.

Germany, however, does not only export pigs; her trade in "canards" with neutrals grows and grows, chiefly with the United States, thanks to the untiring mendacity of Bernstorff and Wolff.

It tells how the maidens gave them dainties and sweet glances, and boutonnières of tuberoses and violets, and bloodthirsty adjurations, and blarney for blarney; gave them seven wild well-believed rumors for as many impromptu canards, and in their soft plantation drawl asked which was the one paramount "ladies' man," and were assured by every lad of the hundred that it was himself.

SIR,There is not the slightest foundation for the ridiculous canard as to the inhabitants of this picturesque and abnormally fashionable town being "in a state of complete panic, owing to the fact that all the convicts recently confined at Shortland have broken out, and are indulging in frightful excesses in the neighbourhood.

R73633, 30Jan51, Roland Pertwee (A) PHILIPPE, CHARLES LOUIS. Les chroniques du canard sauvage.

R73633, 30Jan51, Roland Pertwee (A) PHILIPPE, CHARLES LOUIS. Les chroniques du canard sauvage.

It was one of those canards that stick, and I shall be spoken of always as the man who forgot his wife within an hour after he was married.' "A similar yarn was told of Abraham Lincoln, which was equally false, but even more generally believed.

The bag having been swelled by the addition of another dozen "specimens"obtained by the same manoeuvres as beforewe strolled back to our ships in the luminous dusk, visions of roast "canard" floating seductively before our mental vision.

Tont ce que nous osons dire à la dame que nous aimons, c'est que nous envions près d'elle la place des canards mandarins.

The Canard de France, or Mallard, and the Brancheuse, or Wood Duck, are of different habits from the foregoing, flying in pairs.

Ainsi vous gagnez toutes ces connaissances à la fois, qui s'attachent à votre esprit comme l'eau adhére aux plumes d'un canard.