wild-ducks

The farm was not so large or rambling as to tire the mind or foot, yet wide enough and full of change — rich pasture, hazel copse, green valleys, fallows brown, and golden breast-lands pillowing into nooks of fern, clumps of shade for horse or heifer, and for rabbits sandy warren, furzy cleve for hare and partridge, not without a little mere for willows and for wild-ducks.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

When he doth, it is a proof of his being crossed with wild-ducks.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

He had shot in the course of his walk some young wild-ducks, as, though CLOSE TIME was then unknown, the broods of grouse were yet too young for the sportsman.

Waverley 2004

At last it came to a great moor where wild-ducks lived; here it lay the whole night, and was so tired and melancholy.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

And she will tame no more o 'ta wild-ducks' young things, and she will find out no more o 'ta nests in the rocks, and she will hef no more horns when the deer is killed, and she will go out no more to see ta cattle swim across Loch Roag when they go to ta sheilings.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

My sisters would be knocking at the door every half hour, if only to ask how I was getting on: Bob would tease me to come out skating, and Charles would start me perpetually after wild-ducks or woodcocks.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

These savage birds are very common in Maine, where they make great havoc among the flocks of wild-ducks and Canada grouse, and will even, when driven by hunger, venture an attack on the fowls of the farm-yard.

Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

'But you are tremendously ugly!' said the wild-ducks.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

Frae the loch, whare the wild-ducks are swimmin 'o't;

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

And have you caught any more wild-ducks and tamed them?

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various