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Ca-ca, quawk, quawk, poterack!— The Story-teller
Quackalina knew the haughty quawk of the proud white ducks of Pekin.— Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales
Even their distant quawk made her quake, though she feared her end was near.— Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales
Princess, "a sort of sublimated" shivaree "in which oboes quawk, muted trumpets bray, pizzicato strings flutter, and mandolins (loved of— Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
Directly after there came from a distance the scuttering noise made by a duck dabbling its bill in the ooze, and this was followed by a low _quawk_ uttered by some nocturnal bird, perhaps by one of the butterbumps whose hoarse booming cry had come so strangely in the earlier part of the night.— Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp

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