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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.

    The Passing of Marcus O'Brien 2010

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • 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

  • “And he is gone like a wild-duck, as he came,” continued

    The Abbot 2008

  • He approximates to his inferior contemporaries only in the matter of fruit, salads, and oysters, not to mention wild-duck.

    Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

  • 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.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • 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.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • Herbert, aided by Jup and Top, did not miss a shot in the midst of myriads of wild-duck, snipe, teal, and others.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

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