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Examples
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Australian dab-chick Tachybaptushas novaehollandiae and little pied cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucus are common at Lake Tegano.
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But it will no more stay under cover, I find, than a dab-chick will stay under water.
The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912
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It sounds very appealing, but every time I try to think it over my heart goes down like a dab-chick.
The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912
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Some would have him to be a barnacle goose, others a dab-chick or coot -- none of which can fairly be classed as _aviculæ_ small birds.
Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England 1886
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Jamie listened open-eyed to his accounts of the moor-hen, flapper, coot, water-rail, dab-chick, and sand-piper, to say nothing of rats in abundance, and an otter now and then.
A Vanished Hand Sarah Doudney 1884
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Flashes, the fish in his beak! there the dab-chick dived, and the motion
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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But this is a lovely book, in which Morrison, of Queen's University, Ontario, gives us context, geography and history; defines some terms sedan chair, dab-chick, blain, and admits what he doesn't know.
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If one happens only to shut the door a little hard, she starts and wriggles like a young dab-chick in the water; and Benwick sits at her elbow, reading verses, or whispering to her, all day long. "
Persuasion Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1892
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