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Letter "D" » ducking
«To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.»
«Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.»
Author: Michael Caine
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Keywords:
calm,
calmed,
calmer,
calmest,
calming,
calms,
dickens,
duck,
ducked,
ducking,
paddle,
paddles,
paddling,
surface,
surfaced,
surfaces,
underneath
«Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.»
«There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
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Critic,
Editor,
Playwright,
Poet)
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About:
Beauty
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Keywords:
babies,
billed,
billing,
bills,
downy,
ducked,
ducking,
ducks,
gentle,
heads,
noises,
Order of,
ripple,
rippled,
ripples,
rippling,
soft,
toddle,
toddles,
toddling
«Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.»
Author: Confucius
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Keywords:
drop,
drop in,
duck,
ducked,
ducking,
hill,
long time,
mouth,
roast,
roasting,
Roast duck
«If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(
Writer)
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Keywords:
Anatidae,
aquatic,
aquatic bird,
at least,
bird,
bird of,
consider,
duck,
ducked,
ducking,
family,
family Anatidae,
hands,
looks,
possibility,
quack,
quacks,
The Family
«If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck»
«Happy as a duck in water»
«Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.»
Author: Proverb
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Keywords:
duck,
ducking,
flight,
flock,
in flight,
leads,
take flight,
The Wild,
To Fly,
wild,
wild duck