A stray wild-fowl honked somewhere to seaward, and the surf broke limply and hollowly on the sand. ❋ Unknown (2010)
From afar came the faint cries of myriads of wild-fowl on the nesting-grounds. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A wedge of wild-fowl honked low overhead and at sight of the encampment veered swiftly to the north into the smouldering sun. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The story ends in one of London's magnificently evocative passages: A stray wild-fowl honked somewhere to seaward, and the surf broke limply and hollowly on the sand. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The females withdrew, or rather hurried from the tent, rank and ceremony forgotten, much like a flock of wild-fowl huddled together, against whom the falcon has made a recent stoop. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In rural Anhui province last year, a group of wealthy businessmen, gun-club owners and former army officers organized wild-fowl shoots. ❋ Unknown (2008)
“Weel, weel, Mr. Bide-the-Bent, can a man do mair than stand reproved?” said the cooper; “but jest let me ask the women what for they hae dished the wild-fowl before we came.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
YE gied the wild-fowl, the best end of our christening dinner, to a friend of yours, ye auld rudas! ❋ Unknown (2008)
Kindness and pleasure are the only means to capture this fearful wild-fowl man and keep him constant. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The pheasant from Colchis, the wild-fowl from African shores, ❋ Unknown (2007)
There is a prolix account of the marriage-feast, of which we can pick out the names of a few dishes, such as peterel, crane, sturgeon, swan, etc., with a profusion of wild-fowl and venison. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The smaller sorts of wild-fowl, of which there was abundance, were not served up in platters, but brought in upon small wooden spits or broaches, and offered by the pages and domestics who bore them, to each guest in succession, who cut from them such a portion as he pleased. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A tract of land so thinly inhabited, must have much wild-fowl; and I scarcely remember to have seen a dinner without them. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The wild-fowl were coming from the north, clouds of wild ducks like dust in the high air, sprinkling the water like weeds. ❋ Unknown (2003)
"Only a few more rivers and a few more vales, which thou canst easily spare, and another mountain for a further refuge, and some more lakes to breed more wild-fowl in, and a forest or two well stocked with deer, and a part of the Great Lake to put my whales in -- nothing more, except it be another vale, and another mountain, and another river, and a piece more of the sea." ❋ James Athearn Jones (N/A)
Following its sinuous banks, disturbing the wild-fowl as he went, and treading on a carpeting of sweet-scented night-flowers, he soon reached the bend of the river which laved the grove. ❋ Richard Short (N/A)
Clear, sparkling water dotted with fishing-boats and wild-fowl, little green-capped islands with white cliffs and a range of lofty mountains in the background. ❋ Oliver George Ready (N/A)
Being a notable species of the duck tribe, it is a prize to the hunter of wild-fowl. ❋ Various (N/A)
