What is "ugly ducklings"

Usage examples of "ugly ducklings".

There were swans and ugly ducklings, arrowy racing sloops and broad-beamed Monterey fishing-boats, cabin cruisers and flatties, Star-boats and dinghies.

At seventeen, her youngest daughter had to be the ugliest of all ugly ducklings.

She told him once that she thought he was purposely looking for all the ugly ducklings he could find.

Each rime she thrashed off into the grey sleet to speak to other ships like a fussy little hen overburdened with a brood of ugly ducklings.

Eliza, since she was a girl, if we had been ugly ducklings - if we had become beautiful by and by.

Each time she thrashed off into the grey sleet to speak to other ships like a fussy little hen overburdened with a brood of ugly ducklings.

She was under easy sail, running before that persistent westerly wind, and astern of her, like a couple of ugly ducklings following their portly mother, came the two bomb-ketches.

Buttercup was sitting at a big table where she could oversee the entrance, the bar and the dance floor at the same time, surrounded as usual by a number of sycophants, like a big fat mother hen with a brood of wet chicks and ugly ducklings, and she had introduced Marcus to Birgit, seeing as they were both serious, both seeking.

It was they who, in their perfection, were the ugly ducklings, and it was their shared feeling of wretchedness that had brought them closer together.