What is "teal"

Usage examples of "teal".

Their faces are flattened disks, their skin is covered with scales, a pewtery teal in hue.

Teal had watched Artemus Healey, the Neutral, writhe naked under his blanket of insects and had watched Elisha Talbot, the Simoniac, squirm and kick his flaming feet, his damned money now a cushion under his head, and had watched Phineas Jennison quiver and shake as his body hung shredded and snipped.

If Tsia had linked with the tealer fish or the herons instead of with the cats, would the pilot have trusted her more?

As for his passion, I have a melancholy suspicion that I share it with his cook: he was boring on for ever tonight about a way of serving teal with poivrade sauce!

Simon helpfully pounded his back until the breathing passages were unclogged again, and Teal jerked petulantly away and wiped his streaming tears with a handkerchief.

On the monitors, three images of Veronique stood behind three teal granite counters, showing close-ups in right profile, left profile and straight on.

At any rate, it seems there has been suspicion cast on my little sister concerning the deaths of Lord Alef Drake and a commoner named Jisha Teal, last year at about this time.

Pack a lunch, bring along my favourite pipe, just sit with the wife on a blanket and try to teach the kids the difference between a teal and a canvasback, you know.

Teal dresses in his uniform when involved in his Dantesque mode, whether he is studying Dante or preparing his murders.

In the anteroom of Hell, Greene guided Teal through the land of the Neutrals, where the Great Refuser, the worst offender there, could be found.

The few resident birds, the curious teal, the blue-eyed shag, perhaps the sheathbill, could scarcely find room to turn, and Stephen himself had to walk very carefully not to step on eggs or plunge into the burrows made by the countless whale-birds.

Whatever decorator had chosen all the lavender and teal furnishings of the rest of the ship, the bridge remained functional, if almost toylike in its bright, shiny, compactness.

Teal had seen them all in large and small ways in his life in Boston and on the battlefields across their nation.

Now in a steep slant bitterns, sea swallows, and teals rise from the rushes and duckweed.

Teal purchased from him a box of deadly blowflies and maggots, along with a hive full of wasps, and followed Justice Healey from the courthouse to Wide Oaks, where he watched the judge say good-bye to his family.