Duck type

Usage examples of mallard.

They left the villa, and Mallard grew less restrained in his conversation.

With her cousin Miriam she could sympathize in a way impossible to Spence, who, by-the-bye, somewhat misrepresented his wife in the account he gave to Mallard of their Sunday experiences.

A suggestion that he should seek quarters under the same roof with Mallard recommended itself to him.

This lady had furnished rooms to let, and here it was that Ross Mallard established himself for the few days that he proposed to spend at Naples.

This was most unwonted waste of time, not easily accounted for by Mallard himself.

Manchester, where Banks lived, and Mallard himself did not till long after know that his friend had paid the artist a fee out of his own pocket.

Two things did Mallard learn from Doran himself which were to have a marked influence on his life--a belief that only in landscape can a painter of our time hope to do really great work, and a limitless contempt of the Royal Academy.

What could she possibly be to him, Ross Mallard, landscape-painter of small if any note, as unaristocratic in mind and person as any one that breathed?

Again she said nothing, and again Mallard felt a desire to subdue the pride, or whatever it might be, that had checked the growth of friendliness between them in its very beginning.

She had fallen to ingenuous surprise, and Mallard again laughed, partly at the simplicity of the question, partly because it pleased him to have brought her to such directness.

Both carriages drew up at the gate of the villa, where Miriam and Mallard alighted.

Next morning they set forth again as Mallard had proposed, their baggage packed on a donkey, a guide with them to lead the way over the mountains to the other shore.

How could Mallard help comparing these manifestations of ardent temper with what he had witnessed in Cecily?

Even without this, Mallard felt that he would have been unable to sleep.

Old Mallard forced me to go with him, and I am in his debt to eternity!