What is "ducks and geese"

Usage examples of "ducks and geese".

However, there were many ducks and geese in the canals, and men were fishing in them all along the road.

We hunted pheasant and quail, ducks and geese, rabbits and squirrels, deer and bear, elk and mountain lions.

Perhaps on that spring morning when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden Walden Pond was already in existence, and even then breaking up in a gentle spring rain accompanied with mist and a southerly wind, and covered with myriads of ducks and geese, which had not heard of the fall, when still such pure lakes sufficed them.

He made no more of our presence, than of that of the ducks and geese which he met on the green.

And generally the filler in these items comprises chopped feathers and down from ducks and geese, and in cheap stuff, chickens.

Indeed the horses were pretty well laden as it was with ducks and geese.

The crops were starved of sunshine and rotted in the fields, the fish swam in the deepest waters and their skin became transparent, the ducks and geese could no longer see where they were flying and refused to eat, so before long they wasted to skin and bone.

Grudgingly Hugo said, It really is pretty bad, Chris, and when his son launched a campaign in the Bugle to clean up the roadsides, he contributed a sharp article arguing that men and women who had done such a good job of saving ducks and geese ought also to stop desecrating their landscape.

A few ducks and geese flew up from time to time, and one of the geese I killed with an arrow.

He and Badger fetched the push-carts, and the ducks and geese and hams and bacon were loaded on to them.

Overhead, the sky was thick with ducks and geese, going to the place Famous Shoes wanted to go.

The weather was cold, and it snowed all day, and great flocks of ducks and geese, sporting in the water or streaming through the air, gave token that winter was at hand.

At the edge of the lake, lying along the shallow beach, he found great linear heaps of feathers left by molting ducks and geese.

On the port, marshes slid by, ducks and geese and snipe rising thunderous.

Eventually even the animals got into it, loud enough to startle clouds of ducks and geese and storks out of the tidal marshes that stretched for mile after mile along the north bank of the Thames.