woodcock

• Once more we shall have our meals in quiet Mrs. Carnaby loved a good dinner right well, a dinner unplagued by hospitable cares; when a woodcock was her own to dwell on, and pretty little teeth might pick a pretty little bone at ease Eliza, you are always such a creature of the moment," Mistress Yordas answered, indulgently; "you do love the good things of the world too much. —  Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
• Mrs. Carnaby loved a good dinner right well, a dinner unplagued by hospitable cares; when a woodcock was her own to dwell on, and pretty little teeth might pick a pretty little bone at ease. —  Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
• "If the woodcock is as good as the canvasback," was her somewhat irrelevant reply, "I shall call the evening a success, after all." —  The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive
• Ordinarily the woodcock is a very dull, stupid bird, with a look almost idiotic, and is seldom seen except by the sportsman or the tramper along marshy brooks. —  The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers
• If a woodcock was not a woodcock, that is, one of the laziest birds in the creation, it might easily reach, in a few days 'flight, the dry heaths, the hills, and elevated regions, which it loves; but woodcocks abhor all violent exercise, always preferring the use of their feet to that of their wings, which latter they never agitate, except when necessity requires. —  Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches

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