eider

• But in the Northern regions, particularly in Iceland, there is a bird called the eider duck, which is much valued on account of the soft and beautiful down which grows upon its breast, and is used for pillows and counterpanes, being wonderfully light, warm and elastic. —  Mamma's Stories about Birds
• On Novaya Zemlya, too, the eider is common. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
• If she ever rested, it was with the cosiest corner occupied by somebody else I wonder what will happen when, in heaven, one of these selfless mothers is led in triumph to a solid gold throne, all lined with eider-down cushions, where she can take the rest she never had on earth. —  The Love Affairs of an Old Maid
• By the way he chanced to meet with his brother Come, Hake," said he, "I want you to go with me to find Edwinsson With all my heart," said Hake They soon came to old Haraldson's house, which lay at the extreme west of Brattalid; and when Heika opened the door, there he saw the old man seated in a large chair, propped up with eider-down pillows. —  The Norsemen in the West
• It went into the stream a fat, round, comfortable ball of eider-down. —  Martin Rattler

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