"No use! Of course there is. Just as if your hens couldn't hatch ducks' eggs. Now you just wait till one of your hens wants to sit, and you put ducks' eggs under her, and you'll have a family of ducks in a twinkling. You can buy ducks' eggs a plenty of old Sam under the hill. He always has hens hatch his ducks."英文原著 · 《Queer Little Folks》
"Get out, Miss Galindo!" she cried, addressing the duck. "Get out! O, I ask your pardon," she continued, as if seeing the lady for the first time. "It's only that weary duck will come in. Get out Miss Gal- " (to the duck).英文原著 · 《My Lady Ludlow》
"My dear sir, pardon me; but there is no occasion for mourning. My dear madam, let me congratulate you. There is no harm done. The simple matter is, dear madam, you have been under a hallucination all along. The neighbourhood and my learned friend the doctor have all made a mistake in thinking that these children of yours were hens at all. They are ducks, ma'am, evidently ducks, and very finely-formed ducks I daresay."英文原著 · 《Queer Little Folks》
'If the hoary hawk of the rock were only here, he would soon have that duck,' cried the king; and as he spoke the hoary hawk was seen hovering above them, with the duck in his mouth. They cut off the duck's head with a swing of the king's sword, and took the egg out of its body, but in his triumph the king held it carelessly, and it slipped from his hand, and rolled swiftly down the hill right into the river.英文原著 · 《The Lilac Fairy Book》
"Can we find her now?"
"Sure thing," said Larry. Gwynne received the young man with hand stretched far out to meet him. "You made us lose the game, Mrs. Gwynne," said Duckworth in a half- shamed manner, "and that is one reason why I came to see you again."
"I?" exclaimed Mrs. Gwynne. "Well, you quoted Scripture against us, and you know you can't stand up against Scripture and hope to win, can you?" said Duckworth with a laugh. "Sit down here beside me, Mr. Duckworth," she said, her eyes shining.英文原著 · 《The Major》
Waring-Gaunt?" said Duckworth, hoping to be extricated. That lady, however, gave him no assistance but continued to smile affectionately at the girl beside her. "What style is this that you have now adopted, may I ask?" inquired Mr. Duckworth cautiously. "Oh, that's a combination of several. It's a creation of Kathleen's which as yet has received no name."
"Then it should be named at once," said Duckworth with great emphasis. "May I suggest the Thunderbolt? You see, of course--so stunning."
"They are coming on," cried Nora, turning her shoulder in disdain upon the young man.英文原著 · 《The Major》
I am going into that room, and I am gonna play duckduck goose.美剧 · 《Billions》