55 examples of waterfowls in sentences

We saw quantities of waterfowl of all kinds.

Pat got a fine jack snipe, and I shot a Jheela, a very fine waterfowl with brown plumage, having a strong metallic, coppery lustre on the back, and a steely dark blue breast.

He decided to deceive the waterfowls.

Go and tell all sorts of waterfowl to come, and when they are all together I will inform you what has been revealed to me.'

"When Nanahboozhoo had made a large fire he took the waterfowls he had killed before the diver gave the alarm, and covered them under the ashes, leaving only their feet sticking out.

These marshes supply Rome abundantly with waterfowl and other game of all kinds.

The Poodle is no longer regarded as a sporting dog, but at one period he was trained to retrieve waterfowl, and he still on occasion displays an eager fondness for the water.

This use of the setting and pointing dog is still common on the Continent and in the United States, and there is no inaccuracy in a French artist depicting a Pointer with a partridge in its mouth, or showing a Setter retrieving waterfowl.

He was a natural water-dog, with a constitution impervious to chills, and entirely free from the liability to ear canker, which had always been a drawback to the use of the Spaniel as a retriever of waterfowl.

Kooi, konw, kevi, a cage; vogel-kooi, a bird-cage, decoy, apparatus for entrapping waterfowl.

Waterfowl flew landward with frightened cries; a low, dark cloud was being drawn up the stream over the ashen face of the watera strange, thick, terrible black curtain, shaken by the tempest and bordered by the lightningpressed onward by the resistless powers of the air.

And hear the waterfowl screaming!

" Her father sighed, a peculiar sound that seemed to come from above the tree tops, as if fast-flying waterfowl were passing overhead.

Other small islands, populated by waterfowl, lie between Brownsea and the Purbeck shore, where on a small peninsula is the pretty little hamlet of Arne, remote, forgotten and very seldom visited by tourist or stranger, but commanding the most exquisite views of the harbour and surrounding country.

I loved to be out in a storm, to watch the rain, to hear the wind toss and tear the branches of the trees, to hear at first hand the fury of the storm, and watch the birds hovering in the underbrush, and the wild waterfowl seek the protection of the willows.

Eggs of waterfowl, how cooked.

BROWN, WILLIAM F. Retriever gun dogs; history, breed standards and training; upland game and waterfowl specialists.

John P. Marquand, Jr. & Christina M. Welch (C); 28May74; R577755. R577756. Woodland, field and waterfowl hunting.

BISHOP, RICHARD E. Bishop's birds, etchings of waterfowl & upland game birds.

BROWN, WILLIAM F. Retriever gun dogs; history, breed standards and training; upland game and waterfowl specialists.

John P. Marquand, Jr. & Christina M. Welch (C); 28May74; R577755. R577756. Woodland, field and waterfowl hunting.

For cushions and mattresses, linen cloth and colored stuffs, filled with feathers of the waterfowl, appear to have been used, while seats have plaited bottoms of linen cord or tanned and dyed leather thrown over them, and sometimes the skins of panthers served this purpose.

All kinds of game was in abundance, including waterfowl in winter, though winter here was only such in name.

CHAD, LAKE, a shallow lake in the Sahara, of varied extent, according as the season is dry or rainy, at its largest covering an area as large as England, and abounding in hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, &c., as well as waterfowl and fish.

Stags from out the hillside bushes Gaze aloft into the night, Waterfowl amid the rushes Vaguely stir with flutterings light Down my tear-dim glance I bend now, While through all my soul a rare Thrill of thought toward thee doth tend now Like an ecstasy of prayer.

55 examples of  waterfowls  in sentences