Duck feathers used in pillows

Usage examples of eider.

Sally she volunteer, and dar she had been libing eber since, hoping all de time eider dat I should pass through dere or dat she should hear from Philadelphy dat I had got dere.

During the fall and winter, the refuge is home to thousands of eiders, scoters, and red-breasted mergansers.

St Cuthbert, on Lindisfarne, had preached to the eider ducks which still nested on Bowmont Point, and from the white needle of Longstone lighthouse, Grace Darling had rowed into legend, bringing rescue to the shipwrecked wretches on Harcar Rock.

The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven's sake to quit--the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.

The arctic column showed a polar bear, a walrus, a Greenland seal, a reindeer, a right whale, an eider duck.

Over the treetops rose strings of eiders, forming V's as they gained height, the males white with black bellies and caps, the females gray.

The eiders hung in rows all the way to the ceiling, feet bound, heads resting on dirty plumage.

More eiders he saw, and later in the day, off the island of Saltholm, some very curious sea-duck that he could not identify, that he had no time to identify, for the breeze had freshened steadily, and now the Ariel was running at eight knots.

At one point they stopped and looked off at a huge flock of eiders floating over the marsh like a dark plume of smoke.

Around him were breeding terns and gulls, snow geese and murres, eiders and dovekies.

Eider Danes, a faction who wished to make Schleswig Danish as far as the River Eider.

Their place on the menu was more easily satisfied by the fat, low-flying ptarmigan and willow grouse of the steppes brought down by swift stones, and the autumn visitations of geese and eider ducks snared by nets as they landed on marshy mountain ponds.