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So here is a better picture of a duck, an Eider drake I took earlier this year, on the Ythan estuary.
I suppose the densely feathered, black and white head of the drake does slightly resemble a buffalo's head.
The drake sported full plumage with chocolate-brown head contrasting with gleaming white breast.
Stars of the stamps include a pig and piglets, a Border Collie puppy and a duck and a drake.
The family pets were dogs, cats, and a Muscovy drake duck named Lucy which lived for nine years.
Some of the sailors played mumblety-peg with their knives or played duck and drake with small ice-cold stones they could find beneath the snow.
I went downstairs immediately to see if the window was damaged, and saw a drake mallard lying motionless on its belly in the sand, two metres outside the facade.
By May, Brown and Rihanna had broken up again, and the following spring, she was rumored to be dating drake.
From our picture above, you can tell that this drake is something special.
A male duck is called a drake and the female is called a duck, or in ornithology a hen.
This species can be distinguished from other scoters, apart from black scoter, by the lack of white anywhere on the drake and the more extensive pale areas on the female.
A kind of sport or play with an oister shell or stone throwne into the water, and making circles yer it sinke, etc. It is called a ducke and a drake, and a halfe-penie cake.
Quin looked as though he might retort with some snide remark he was sure to regret, so Drake interrupted.
Her work in Vera Drake is so fully rounded, richly detailed and emotionally devastating that there really is no competition.
There were two horses under the oak where Bryony had left Drake and she immediately recognized the second as Driscoll's roan.
Drake grabbed a handful of his hair and twisted cruelly just as he finished tying off the rough bandage.
Science promises cures and miracles, but the most advanced country in the world risks heading back down a Via Dolorosa to the time of Vera Drake.
Drake and Spade sat down, both avoiding looking at the girls as they paid their tab at the register and left.
While in the Pacific the crew of the auxiliary traced the footsteps of Sir Francis Drake by landing boats on a Costa Rican shoreline.
Julius Drake plays his part with dedication and conviction, particularly in the dissonant sections where Ives' demands are extremely taxing.
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The duck was a drake, but the stork didn't mind, and they loved each other and were as jolly as could be.
Doubtless the drake is aberrated, and his accomplice still more so, but nature deserves part of the blame.
The usual note of the scoter is a harsh kurr, modulated into a more 204 musical sound by the drake during the pairing season.
Where in his portrait gallery is the picture of a drake, or even of a Raleigh?
Again and again the drake tried to fly, only to realize at last that he was clipped and shamed and earthbound.
Anybody with an eye to see could tell that in his youth he must have been as redheaded, as a pochard drake.
Through them the symbols of the mandarin duck and drake, the one-winged birds, the tree whose boughs are interwoven, are revealed.
Governor Berkeley named also brant, shell drake, teal, and blewings.
I saw this illustrated one spring in the case of a mallard drake.
The mandarin duck and drake are emblems of conjugal fidelity.
They are the mandarin duck and drake of Morokoshi transplanted to Yotsuya.
We'll have favourable winds, a quick passage, and not the least difficulty in finding the spot, and money to eat, to roll in, to play duck and drake with ever after.
This particular bird was a loner, a high-flying drake that locked up without hesitation upon seeing the small spread we'd set just outside the smartweed.
In the meantime the two little ducklings had fallen asleep, and the little drake lay between them, covered up by their wings, to be kept warm under their feathers.
Before reaching the half ascender made a spurt and was third, but he soon died away, Drake Carter taking third place.
Governor Drake sprang to switch it on, and tried to explain to Smithy as he did so.
Drake hitched his chair nearer and focused all his powers of concentration.
All the men were in the smoking room, and all were plying Drake with questions.
The men who followed the drum of Drake were much akin to the australasian of to-day.
Then she introduced her daughter to Drake and sent them adrift through the rooms.
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