"Duckling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sail, and gobbled at it, and its brothers and sisters hunted it, grew more and more angry with it, and wished the cat would get it and swallow it up, she herself wished it far and far away. And as the worries grew around the poor duckling, it ran away. It didn't know enough to have faith in itself and its own future. The result was the worries of others affected it to the extent of urging it to flee. For the time being this enlarged its worries, until at length, falling in with a band of swans, it felt a ...
— Quit Your Worrying! • George Wharton James
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... don't notice?" Miss Spraggs had replied, a remark which was untrue in its present application, as, at the moment when Mavis had taken Jill's part, Eva Spraggs had been looking out of the window, as she wondered if the peas, that were to accompany a roast duckling at luncheon, would be as hard and as unappetising as they had been when served ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte
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... chick is a duckling now, Pope, old boy. You'll have to let him swim if he wants to. The water's deep there, too—very deep. Marcia knows ...
— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs
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... very large duckling," said she; "none of the others look like that: can it really be a turkey chick? Well, we shall soon find out. It must go into the water, even if I have to thrust ...
— The Junior Classics, Volume 1 • Willam Patten
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... ate their breakfast at their leisure and prepared to drive their ugly duckling into the battle line again and finish the work of destroying the ...
— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon
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