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  • But the broadcaster was accused of acting like the "duckhouse" gang of MPs for refusing to disclose the individual salaries of its top stars to a House of Commons spending watchdog yesterday.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • But the broadcaster was accused of acting like the "duckhouse" gang of MPs for refusing to disclose the individual salaries of its top stars to a House of Commons spending watchdog yesterday.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • For it was then a pretty thing happened of pure diversion mayhap, when his flattering hend, at the justright moment, like perchance some cook of corage might clip the lad on a poot of porage handshut his duckhouse, the vivid girl, deaf with love,

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Then the smell of smoke got stronger, and, in about as long as it would take you to count one and a half, what should happen but that the whole duckhouse was suddenly lighted up.

    Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble Howard Roger Garis 1917

  • As for that old duckhouse, I'm glad it's smashed, for maybe now Martha will agree to having it taken down.

    Anne of Avonlea 1909

  • It was the sketch she had written the day she fell through the roof of the Cobb duckhouse on the Tory Road.

    Anne of the Island 1908

  • As for that old duckhouse, I'm glad it's smashed, for maybe now Martha will agree to having it taken down.

    Anne of Avonlea 1908

  • In Gosport, home to the world's most famous taxpayer-funded duckhouse, TV presenter Fred Dinenage's daughter Caroline is hoping her campaign can survive the expenses scandal of retired MP Sir Peter Viggers.

    Epolitix News 2010

  • In Gosport, home to the world's most famous taxpayer-funded duckhouse, TV presenter Fred Dinenage's daughter Caroline is hoping her campaign can survive the expenses scandal of retired MP Sir Peter Viggers.

    Epolitix News 2010

  • In Gosport, home to the world's most famous taxpayer-funded duckhouse, TV presenter Fred Dinenage's daughter Caroline is hoping her campaign can survive the expenses scandal of retired MP Sir Peter Viggers.

    Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2010

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