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Examples
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He was offered wild-duck eggs, but he informed them that he had a bushel of the same on the boat.
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“Na, then, the best I can do for you is to put it by, to be sauce for the wild-duck the morn; for I think ye said ye were to bide here for a day or twa.”
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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“Look yonder, and choose whether you will return skimming the water like a wild-duck, or winging the air like a plover.”
The Monastery 2008
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“A large black dog, Wolf by name, who brought me into the castle one day in his mouth, like a hurt wild-duck, and presented me to the lady.”
The Abbot 2008
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He took fright, the foolish lad, at something or other which our Baron did in his moody humour, and so he jumped into the lake and swam ashore like a wild-duck.
The Monastery 2008
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“And he is gone like a wild-duck, as he came,” continued
The Abbot 2008
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He approximates to his inferior contemporaries only in the matter of fruit, salads, and oysters, not to mention wild-duck.
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There are no black-cock, muir-fowl, nor partridges; but there are snipe, wild-duck, wild-geese, and swans, in winter; wild-pidgeons, plover, and great number of starlings; of which I shot some, and found them pretty good eating.
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The saunterer looked up and saw a wild-duck flying along with the greatest violence, just in its rear being another large bird, which a countryman would have pronounced to be one of the biggest duck-hawks that he had ever beheld.
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Herbert, aided by Jup and Top, did not miss a shot in the midst of myriads of wild-duck, snipe, teal, and others.
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