"Canvasback" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... comfo'table here. I had a po'ter-house steak this mornin'—you're sure you won't have one?" I shook my head. "A po'ter-house steak, suh, that'll haunt my memory for days. We, of co'se, have at home every variety of fish, plenty of soft-shell crabs, and 'casionally a canvasback, when Hardy or some of my friends are lucky enough to hit one, but no meat that is wo'th the cookin'. By the bye, I've come to take Jack home with me; the early strawberries are in their prime, now. You will join us, ...
— A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others • F. Hopkinson Smith
... while to bother over the price of rib roast a pound, or fresh eggs a dozen, when one is smoking fifty-cent cigars. Essentially it costs me as much to lunch off a boiled egg, served in my dining room at home, as to carve the breast off a canvasback. At the end of the month my bills would not show the difference. It is the overhead—or, rather, in housekeeping, the underground—charge that counts. That boiled egg or the canvasback represents a running expense of at least a hundred ...
— The "Goldfish" • Arthur Train
... Canvasback (A. vallisneria). Head and neck dark-red, eye of male red, bill and feet of ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton
... received in New York and in the larger cities which he visited the highest social attention from the leading families. I met him several times and found that he never could be reconciled to our two most famous dishes—terrapin and canvasback duck—the duck nearly raw. He said indignantly to one hostess, who chided him for his neglect of the canvasback: "Madam, when your ancestors left England two hundred and fifty years ago, the English of that time were accustomed to eat their meat raw; now they cook it." To which ...
— My Memories of Eighty Years • Chauncey M. Depew
... fillet of trout this evening, and the sauce—you still can make it, Jean? Such entrees as you like, of course. But, since Mademoiselle—" and here I smiled—"and I, also, are very hungry this evening, we wish a woodcock after the canvasback, if you do not mind. Perhaps it is ...
— The Lady and the Pirate - Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive • Emerson Hough |
