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duckling

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duckling
a young duck


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Aurelia could have understood the feeling of a narrow-minded and conventional hen who has brought a strange, intrepid duckling into the world; but her situation was still more wonderful, for she could only compare her sensations to those of some quiet brown Dorking who has brooded an ordinary egg and hatched a bird of paradise.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
In the meantime, outside the palace walls, the poor White Duck swam up and down the pond; and near it laid three eggs, out of which there came one morning two little fluffy ducklings and a little ugly drake.
The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context
WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen
The Original Peter Rabbit Books by Potter, Beatrix View in context
 
 
 
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