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  • I will have nightmares about her collagen-plumped duck-bill lips for the rest of my boring white-girl life.

    Small wonder 2009

  • In “Furious Seasons,” Frank is “a big man, with a thick quilted jacket zipped up to his chin and a brown duck-bill cap that made him look like a grim umpire.”

    Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

  • He was really mellow, with all this wild white hair stuck under a duck-bill cap.

    DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007

  • He was really mellow, with all this wild white hair stuck under a duck-bill cap.

    DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007

  • Increasing the effective length of the spillway crest by employing, in principle, the duck-bill weir arrangement previously described (the crest in this case has a zig-zig configuration, in plan) can also reduce the height of flood-rise, thereby increasing live storage capacity.

    Chapter 16 1995

  • He wore a cloth, duck-bill cap and a soiled, striped shirt, and his face was beaded with perspiration from the heat inside the closed car.

    To The Bright and Shining Sun James Lee Burke 1989

  • Another, the platypus, or duck-bill, has the bill and webbed feet of a duck and the body and tail of a beaver.

    Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

  • The duck-bill may well boast of its sting, because the honey-bee of Australia has none.

    Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

  • The duck-bill carries a hinged spur on the hind legs, which also is a sting that injects a violent poison into whatever it strikes.

    Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

  • The duck-bill is a near kinsman of the porcupine ant-eater.

    Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

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