duck-weed

Have another Scotch, and let semblance and deception become duck-weed on a river.

Chapter 36 2010

To this question he replied, that it was as common as duck-weed in his country for a man to complain when his bones were broke.

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

_E_, two plants of a duck-weed (_Lemna_), the one at the left is in flower, × 4.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

The Farley Water falls over a succession of little waterfalls, swirling and foaming in the pools between, and then slips over little rocky ridges and slopes covered with duck-weed so wide that the 'stream covers it like no more than a thin film of glancing emerald.'

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

"I'll show you," said Buddy, so he laid sticks across the top of the sand walls, and on top of the sticks he placed duck-weed.

Buddy and Brighteyes Pigg Bed Time Stories Howard Roger Garis 1917

He piled a lot of sand in a heap, together with stones, and sticks and bits of duck-weed, and then he started in.

Buddy and Brighteyes Pigg Bed Time Stories Howard Roger Garis 1917

-- Did you look all through the duck-weed, did you fish it out of the pond, to see if the pearls were hidden in it?

Hadda Pada 1888-1945 Gu��mundur Kamban 1916

Have another Scotch, and let semblance and deception become duck-weed on a river.

Chapter XXXVI 1913

When ducks suddenly emerge from a pond covered with duck-weed, I have twice seen these little plants adhering to their backs; and it has happened to me, in removing a little duck-weed from one aquarium to another, that I have unintentionally stocked the one with fresh-water shells from the other.

XIII. Geographical Distribution-Continued. Fresh-water Productions 1909

He rose to the surface spluttering, and when he had wiped the duck-weed out of his eyes the first thing he saw was the fat barge-woman looking back at him over the stern of the retreating barge and laughing; and he vowed, as he coughed and choked, to be even with her.

The Wind in the Willows 1908