Loc: Durham, England I always used to wear a large silver cygnet ring on the index finger of my right hand, which almost led to my demise.— YBW News
This male cygnet, note, predated Matthew Bourne's Lake.
Friendly communion, in any case, there could not be: already has the young Teufelsdröckh left the other young geese; and swims apart, though as yet uncertain whether he himself is cygnet or gosling Perhaps, too, what little employment he had was performed ill, at best unpleasantly.— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Afterwards she regaled herself with the breast of a cygnet, stuffed with almonds, and stewed with violets and cream.— Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
The princess had needed no practice, but had danced beautifully from the first, her strong young limbs and supple body taking as naturally to anything requiring grace of movement as a cygnet to water This, thought I, is my opportunity to teach Jane the new dance.— When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth

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