42 examples of eiders in sentences

She left the AEolian harp in the window, as a luxury if she should wake, and coiled herself up among lace pillows and eider blemos; and the hound coiled himself up on the gravel-walk, after a solemn vesper-ceremony of three turns round in his own length, looking vainly for a 'soft stone.'

They were there by the hundreds, scattered along the lonely bays just above high-water line, where the eiders had their nests.

The ducks and geese vanished, driving southward ahead of the fierce autumn gales, and only the late broods of hardy eiders were left for a little season.

Robes of the silver fox as soft as eider-down, and a cloak of royal ermine; he secured them, too.

A superb mantel of Mexican onyx with gold decoration adorns the south wall, and before the hearth is a large rug composed entirely of skins of the eider-down duck, brought from the Arctic regions.

Ef Peter ain't to be foun' at eider en', wha is he?" "Um-m-m!"

beneath thy eider breast, In fields of Fancy climbs the kernel'd groves, Or shares the golden harvest with his loves.

hear my fervent sighs, Bear on broad wings your Votress to the skies!" Plume over plume in long divergent lines 20 On whale-bone ribs the fair Mechanic joins; Inlays with eider down the silken strings, And weaves in wide expanse Dædalian wings; Round her bold sons the waving pennons binds, And walks with angel-step upon the winds.

When the ram walked to the very edge of the mountain roof, so the boy could look down the mountain walls, he noticed that they were simply filled with birds' nests; and in the blue sea beneath him, lay surf-scoters and eider-ducks and kittiwakes and guillemots and razor-billsso pretty and peacefulbusying themselves with fishing for small herring.

Yes, it is there, beneath the discreet eider-down, that she hides her naked charms.

"The Ferroe Isles, belonging to Denmark, are seventeen in number; they produce agate, jasper, and beautiful zeolites, and export feathers, eider-down, caps, stockings, tallow, and salted mutton.

Thousands and thousands of them perch and chatter on the rocks and fly screaming in the air, amongst them being guillemots, kittiwakes, gulls, terns, cormorants, puffins, and eider-ducks, for which latter St. Cuthbert is said to have had great affection; certainly they are the gentlest of these wild sea-fowl.

All those months the burden of a thought bowed me; and an unanswered question, like the slow turning of a mechanism, revolved in my gloomy spirit: for everywhere around me lay bears, walruses, foxes, thousands upon thousands of little awks, kittiwakes, snow-owls, eider-ducks, gulls-dead, dead.

Yet well I ween had slumber fled From couch of eider down!

You shall wrap me in eider, that I may be like all the boughs and branches.

It is not death, but plenitude of peace; And this dim cloud which doth the earth enfold Hath less the characters of dark and cold Than light and warmth asleep, And intermittent breathing still doth keep With the infant harvest heaving soft below Its eider coverlet of snow.

Do I Northward turn O'er the waste lands lone, Soft as eider down Are the snowflakes blown.

In another very similar group, the action of St. Catherine is rather too familiar,it is that of an eider sister or a nurse: the young St. John kneels in worship.

No eider-down in the cradle of an infant is tucked in more kindly than the sleeping-dress of winter about this feeble flower-life.

People like the moth, Of mechlin, frames, Duties of gossamer, And eider names.

This party were called the Eider Danes, for they wished Denmark to be extended to the Eider.

This party were called the Eider Danes, for they wished Denmark to be extended to the Eider.

During the month of December the Hanoverians and Saxons occupied Holstein; the Danes did not resist but retreated across the Eider.

" "Excuse me if I refuse to give the name of eider of dese gentlemen at dis onhappy season," he rejoined.

Then back he rode over the River Eider into the enemy's landfor they had stripped Denmark of all her hard-won possessions south of the ancient border of the kingdom, except Esthland and Rügenand with him went every man who could bear arms in all the nation.

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