| 单词 | widgeon |
| 例句 | Two or three widgeon hung in one of them, and, far away to the eastward, a fly-like man was plodding over the slob in tiny persistence, to collect his bag. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The bitterns boomed and the marsh harriers skimmed over the reeds and millions of widgeon and mallard and tufted ducks flew about m various wedges, looking like champagne bottles balanced on a nimbus of wings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The widgeon, who had slept on water, came whistling their double notes, like whistles from a Christmas cracker. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The mallard and widgeon, coming in high with the gale behind, were gone before they had arrived. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Also spotted, but in fewer numbers, were snow geese, buffleheads, redheads, goldeneyes, American widgeon, ruddy, ring-necked, canvasbacks, scaup and wood ducks. Annual W.Va. waterfowl survey finds fewer duck, geese 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z These four varieties are the best known, but the widgeon and blue-wing are also plentiful, and outside these are at least half a dozen varieties less familiar to Australian sportsmen. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z After this I would return to the boat for "Chow-chow," and when it was despatched, cross over to the mainland, probably getting a few brace of widgeon on the way. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z Poach′er, one who poaches or steals game: the widgeon, from its habit of stealing the prey of other ducks; Poach′ing. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Eight blackheads, five redheads, two widgeon, a black duck and two teal, eighteen in all. Dick Randall The Young Athlete 2012-01-04T03:00:45.467Z Confound it all!" he cried; "I wouldn't care so much if it wasn't right in the middle of the flight, but this is the very top of the season for redheads and widgeon. Loaded Dice 2012-01-04T03:00:36.343Z The birds aren't really concentrated at the mouth of the Okanogan, by there's a diverse species mix of divers as well as mallards and lots of widgeons. Waterfowl have arrived in good numbers in the Columbia Basin 2011-12-12T02:24:46Z In every slough where mallards, blue- and green-winged teal, widgeons, black duck and pintails settle down to rest in autumn, gunners wait concealed in the sedges. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Hybrids between the mallard and the pin-tail and the mallard and the widgeon have been occasionally met with on the marshes of the Coast. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z Wild geese and ducks, grouse, partridges, snipe, woodcock, quails, widgeons and teal are plentiful all over the country, and in recent years preserves have been largely stocked with pheasants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Go to the steward; I must have a widgeon for dinner. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Plovers, teal, or widgeons, come buy my pigeons. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z The heron stalked to and fro between the bull-polls; the ducks swam in and out; the moor-hens took up their residence; and in winter the widgeons and snipes visited the place in myriads. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z The widgeon is one of the most common ducks of the Coast, both north and south. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z Working a duck decoy—when we knew where we had the decoyman—was another profitable night adventure, which sometimes produced dozens of delicate teal, mallard and widgeon. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Teal, and sometimes widgeon also, visit the place. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z On this day large flocks of wild geese and swans, with mallards and widgeon, were seen in the neighbourhood of Yarmouth, and the stormy petrel was observed. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z All day he made baskets of willow and flags, in the evening he shot ducks and widgeon. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z The widgeon begins its migrations early in the fall and great numbers find their way as far south as the Coast marshes and lower lakes of Mexico. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z He would tell of immense flocks of widgeon, of banks of brent geese, and clouds of dunlin. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Of the duck family the following species are abundant here: the teal, the mallard, widgeon, pintail, canvasback, spoonbill, sawbill and woodduck. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z Time was when such poultry fetched its price; now, thanks to the prolific process of our modern hatchings, we see her as often in the market as widgeon, snipe, or plovers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z Wild ducks, widgeon, teal, and other ducks, gulls, terns, and waders of many species, hawks, kestrels, marsh harriers, and hen harriers are occasionally met with, particularly about Hickling. The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z The green-winged teal, like the widgeon, feeds a great deal on the plains and in the fields. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z No; but there may be a widgeon or wild duck. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z The heron, the snakebird, and the redshank, waded through the shallow drifts; and geese, widgeon, teal, and mallard, rose whirring in the air at every step. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z He that binds himself Apprentice to his wife merely for love, May he, pen-feathered widgeon, forfeit's freedom, With whatsoe'er is dearest to the vogue Of his affections. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 Duck, geese, widgeon, and teal are there, cackling and crying in a joyous plenty. Tales of South Africa Mallards, canvasbacks, sprigs and widgeons had been named, so when he came to me I answered that any kind would do me. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z For the marsh, quartered to its remotest corners, yielded neither widgeons nor wild ducks; only moor-hens and water-rails—quarry too contemptible to fly the great falcons at. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Widgeon may be cooked in as many ways as teal, using the same recipes, substituting widgeon for teal. Dressed Game and Poultry à la Mode That stream was the noble York, whose broad bosom, now broader and more beautiful than ever, lay full in their view, and on which the duck, the widgeon and the gull were quietly floating. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion Flamingoes, ibises, coots, great gaudy geese, thousands of wild-duck, widgeon, and teal thronged the shallows and darkened the river surface. Tales of South Africa It is about the size of the widgeon. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z Long Gun! who oft to the forefinger of Colonel Hawker has swept the night-harbour of Poole all alive with widgeons, be true to the trust now reposed in thee by Kit North! Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) No small birds, either, understand: no teal, or widgeon, or shovellers. A Breath of Prairie and other stories Hares, leverets, partridges, quails, young turkeys, geese, ducks, capons, pullets, fowls, chickens, pigeons, wild and tame rabbits, wild ducks, widgeon, teal, plover, larks, and pippets. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. Duck, geese, widgeon, and teal thronged the spreading waters, and clamoured incessantly. Tales of South Africa A wild duck, or a widgeon, will require twenty or twenty-five minutes roasting, according to the size. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families You will recollect we were speaking of ducks, teals, and widgeons; and we come now to the next clause of the verse—wild geese and swans. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Are dressed exactly as the wild duck; only that less time is requisite for a widgeon, and still less for a teal. The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual A widgeon will take nearly twenty minutes to roast, to eat plain with good gravy only. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. Many a teal and widgeon and canvasback had fallen to my double-barreled Manton, back on the Atlantic coast—very long ago, before I had got entangled in this confounded web of misadventure and homicidal tendencies. Desert Dust Game, pheasants, fowls, partridges, larks, hares, dotterels, wild ducks, teal, snipes, widgeon, grouse.—Fish. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Other birds shot by the fowlers were mallard, teal, widgeon, whimbrells, grebes of several kinds, and the “yelping” avocet. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter They were widgeons; but the most singular thing that was now observed by our voyageurs was the terms upon which these three kinds of birds lived with each other. Popular Adventure Tales To eat widgeon in perfection, half roast the birds. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. Three wild duck, widgeon, came speeding through the fog; he breasted the wind, balanced heavily on both crutches and one leg, and shoved his gun upward. Barbarians A wild duck or a widgeon will require twenty or twenty-five minutes roasting, according to the size. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Those widgeon, there, wouldn't do us much good. The Adventures of Bobby Orde It happened that this was the nest of Old Mrs. Long Neck, the widgeon duck. Little White Fox and his Arctic Friends And one morning, when he returned to find her asleep at her post, a bunch of widgeon left the stools right under her nose before he had a chance to shoot. Blue-Bird Weather I saw that the canvas-backs were accompanied by another species of a very different colour from themselves: this was the American widgeon. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Seizing my gun, and leaving strict injunctions with Crusty to attend to the roasting of my widgeon, I sallied forth, and, after getting beyond the light of the fire, endeavoured to peer through the gloom. Hudson Bay All sorts, lad: widgeons, teal, mallards, and some pochards. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp The same thing resulted when a second teal, or widgeon—the wild duck appearing to partake of the characteristics of both varieties—came by. The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land As to wild fowls, we have a few teems of ducks bred in the moors where the snipes breed; and multitudes of widgeons and teals in hard weather frequent our lakes in the forest. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 The widgeon has observed him going down; and, calculating to a nicety the spot where he will reappear, seats himself in readiness. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire We had scarcely gone a hundred yards ere a large widgeon rose from behind a bush, and Crusty, who was in advance, brought it down. Hudson Bay Hogsheads of honey, kilderkins of mustard, Muttons, and fatted beeves, and bacon swine; Herons and bitterns, peacocks, swan, and bustard, Teal, mallard, pigeons, widgeons, and, in fine. In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World Thousands and thousands of duck and teel and widgeon they catches at this time of year. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Duck, widgeon, teal, and snipe; shooting free on Bishop's Mountain and Moenrin. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway The widgeon is but a poor diver, while the canvas-back is one of the very best. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire In the latter cross, although the males are fine birds, the females are not larger than a widgeon, and fly about almost like wild ducks. Essays in Natural History and Agriculture The mallard, gadwall, widgeon, pintail, the various species of pochard and the common teal are rapidly disappearing. A Bird Calendar for Northern India The meadows gleam with hoar-frost white, The day breaks on the hill, The widgeon takes its early flight Beside the frozen rill. Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books The quarry has to be measured by number, not by size, and fifty widgeon at one discharge, or a brace of wild swans may almost serve to set against a stag of ten. Lost Leaders The widgeon, however, is equally fond of the roots of the wild celery with his congener; but he has no means of obtaining them except by robbing the latter. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Roasted daw, steamed widgeon and grilled quail— On every fowl they fare. More Translations from the Chinese The principal species are ... puffins, gulls, cormorants, Cornish choughs, the eider duck, auks, divers, guillemots, razor-bills, widgeons, willocks, daws, starlings, and pigeons. Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island. In ducks, there are mallards, black, wood, mandarin, blue and green winged teal, widgeon, redhead, pin-tail, bluebill, gadwell, call and many others. Outdoor Sports and Games No pass of duck, widgeon, barnacle, or curlew, was unknown to him. Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One I became differently occupied, and with a matter that soon drove canvas-backs, and widgeons, and pochards as clean out of my head as if no such creatures had ever existed. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Grouse, plover, and bittern were found upon its moors; woodcock and snipe on its marshes; mallard, teal, and widgeon upon its pools. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest Ducks, teal, widgeon, coots, and divers were recognisable, despite the distance, by their prow-like heads, their balance on the water, and their motion through it, "like little galleys," Owen said. Sister Teresa The ducks are about the size of a teal or widgeon, but somewhat different in colour from either. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time The country about the bay abounds with guanicoes, and a great variety of wild fowl, particularly ducks, geese, widgeon, and sea-pies, besides many others for which we have no name. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Of wild fowl, there are enormous varieties, including the "pato real" or great tree duck, whistling mallard, various kinds of teal and shovellers, widgeon, muscony and hooded duck, black-headed geese, grey geese, and swans. Argentina from a British Point of View They, however, shot a brace of partridges in a turnip field, a widgeon that rose from a reedy tarn, and a woodcock that sprang out of a holly thicket in a bog. Carmen's Messenger With the ducks come teal and widgeon and moorhen, till the swampy meadow resounds with their strange cries. The Amateur Poacher Bronze-wing and crested pigeons here; also some beautiful parrots, black ducks, teal, whistlers, painted widgeons, and wood-duck in small number; also parakeets and quail. McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia Catching Wild Ducks, &c. in India.—In the lower parts of Bengal, wild ducks, widgeon, and teal, are often taken by means of earthen pots. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 565, September 8, 1832 Though it was ten of the clock, they were still there: sleepy brown mallards, glossy-winged teal, long-necked shovellers, greyish speckled widgeon: these and others less common, representatives of all the native tribe. Where the Trail Divides There was a fine sprinkling of sprig, redhead, widgeon, plenty of teal, bluebills and some spoonbills, all fine, fat birds. Out of Doors—California and Oregon Teal and widgeon may be shot occasionally in the same manner. A Cotswold Village Let some cry up woodcock or hare, Your bustards, your ducks, and your widgeons; But of all the GAY birds in the air, Here's a health to the Three Jolly Pigeons. She Stoops to Conquer By the banks teal, widgeon and wild duck, and in some places, snipe, are plentiful. The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War The teal, the mallard, the widgeon, the shoveller, the canvasback—all mingled in the loud-voiced throng that arose before the leader's approach, then, like smoke, vanished with almost unbelievable swiftness into the hazy distance. Where the Trail Divides These islands shelter the birds, and when the lake is covered with ice the islands are crowded with wild duck and widgeon. The Naturalist on the Thames How it is so very high humour to call lovers widgeons rather than pigeons. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies The displays of most ducks known to me take the form of mock fights on the water; one exception is the handsome and loquacious whistling widgeon of La Plata, which has a pretty aerial performance. The Naturalist in La Plata A couple of widgeon sport upon the tank. A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán What a multitude of wild ducks there are in Scotland and every other country, mallards, pintails, gadwalls, widgeons, pochards and teals, all very much alike in their habits and tastes! Concerning Animals and Other Matters They were not mallard, teal, or widgeon; but three-quarters of the number were tufted ducks, a diving-duck species, which haunts both estuaries and fresh water, but preferably the latter. The Naturalist on the Thames In a placid little pool I saw a couple of widgeon all unconscious of danger, their glossy plumage reflected in the clear water. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter Then the duck came in, and the widgeon, company by company: and all the light of day faded out of the sky saving one red band of light. The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories Such as you shall like, too: what say you to this young gentleman? he is the widgeon that we must feed upon. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 They walked round the garden and down to the pond where there were ornamental waterfowl, teal, widgeon and mandarin ducks, and seeing these again gave her great pleasure. Lady into Fox POULTRY.—Chickens, fowls, geese, larks, pigeons, pullets, rabbits, teal, turkeys, widgeons, wild ducks. The Book of Household Management They were the haunt of vast quantities of widgeon, teal, whistlers, mallard, ducks, snipe, curlew, blue fowl, and the usual varied habitués of an exceptionally good Indian lake. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter In winter as a rule it became full of water and was a favourite haunt, especially at night, of flocks of teal, also duck of a few other kinds—widgeon, pintail, and shoveller. Far Away and Long Ago Herons and swans and ducks and wild geese,—widgeon,—all sorts of water-birds nest there. Masters of the Guild In the depths of them are quiet and deep pools, frequented by various aquatic birds, such as geese, ducks, snipes, widgeons, kingfishers and ibis, cranes and storks, and pelicans. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley POULTRY.—Chickens, fowls, geese, larks, pigeons, pullets, rabbits, teal, turkeys, widgeons, wild duck. The Book of Household Management The "widgeon" I presume to be a mistake or a misprint for pigeon. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 In this way I shot teal, widgeon, pintail, shovellers, and finally the noble rosy-bill, which was esteemed for the table above all the others. Far Away and Long Ago Bolgodde is a very large lake of many miles in circumference, abounding with crocodiles, widgeon, teal, and ducks. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon "The dead are dead," he said, leaning over and opening my game bag to look into it and sort and count the few braces of partridge, snipe and widgeon. Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy POULTRY.—Capons, chickens, fowls, geese, pigeons, pullets, rabbits, teal, turkeys, widgeons, wild ducks. The Book of Household Management It begins with the usual ornithological emotion— ‘When the widgeon westward winging Heard the folk Vereeniginging, Heard the shouting and the singing’”— “Vereeniginging is good, but why widgeon?” Reginald Should he wish to land, it is merely because he has seen a large flight of landrails or plovers, of wild ducks, teal, widgeon, or woodchucks, which fall an easy pray to net or gun. The Man in the Iron Mask Soon a large flight came over, mixed up with mallard and widgeon. Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain As to wild fowls, we have a few teams of ducks bred in the moors where the snipes breed; and multitudes of widgeons and teals in hard weather frequent our lakes in the forest. The Natural History of Selborne |
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