Leave off your ducking on the day, And duck upon the night; Wherever that sackless knight lies slain, The candles will shine bright.
They left off their duckingon the day, And duck'd upon the night; And where that sackless knight lay slain, The candles shone full bright.
Illustration: The Elephant Kept Ducking Pa and Swabbing Out the Bottom of the Fountain.
The Elephant kept Ducking Pa and Swabbing Out the Bottom of the Fountain.
Pa yelled and talked profane, and told 'em to bring a cannon and kill the elephant, which kept ducking him with his trunk, and swabbing out the bottom of the fountain basin with pa.
From the strange custom of ordeal by water originated the practice of ducking witches, but to the witch either sinking or swimming proved alike fatal.
All in the water tried to avoid the craft, some swimming to one side and others ducking beneath the boat.
The ducking came so quickly that each swallowed considerable water.
Everything was cut and dried, and they might come and try their hands at ducking us if they were game!
Whether it will be called a battle, or what our people are going to call it, I do not know; this I know, it has been a grand attempt at ducking us.
Timing his blow with Simpson's attack, he delivered it just as Simpson was duckingforward to fall.
As this was the state in which wives were bought in exchange for tobacco, it is not surprising to find the penalty of her free speech to be paid in tobacco, the wife to suffer ducking for each 500 pounds penalty in excess of the first.
The only fault he had to find with her was that she "talked back," which has always been deemed an unpardonable crime in woman; one for which the Ducking Stool and Scold's Bridle were invented.
The Ducking Stool, and the "Stool of Penitence" figure in the early annals of New England.
While England has the shame of originating the Ducking Stool, the "Pilgrim Fathers," fleeing from religious persecution, failed not to take with them the implements of cruelty used in the domestic oppression of woman.
The Ducking Stool; its use in England; brought to America by the "Pilgrim Fathers.
Death not infrequently accompanied the use of the ducking stool, the poor gagged victim, her hands securely fastened, being utterly unable to help herself.
The suggestive and usual place of storing the Ducking Stool, when not in use, was the church-yard.
The Leominster Ducking Stool, still preserved, was used in 1809, by order of the magistrates, upon a woman named Jane Corran, who received her punishment near Kenwater Bridge.
Catholic countries do not enjoy a monopoly of making rain by ducking holy images in water.
The ploughmen and sowers retorted by seizing every one, throwing them into the pond, and ducking them under the water.
He was treated to a ducking yesterday in Justice Hare's green pond.
A school of porpoises were duckingand tearing through the water, and little Kotick followed them as fast as he could.
Then he swam round and round, duckingin and out of the bars of the moonlight like the frog, his namesake.
The duck derives its English name from its habit of ducking its head into the water in search of food at the bottom of the shallow waters, which it prefers.
One of the first things a little duck does when it gets into the water is to go through the peculiar ducking performance that gives the name to its species.
Why, I should as soon expect to see Gentleman Jack consort with the Finsbury archers, or go a-ducking to Islington ponds!
In each of the cross-aisles spectators stood or crouched against its back-wall, ducking their heads to avoid protests from the luckier spectators in the seats behind them.
I was already ducking along the Court to reconnoiter the Pillar House, black and silent beyond the box-trees.
You're lookin' for the minister," I stammered, ducking my head.
The friars of St. Francis, in Stamford, consider that Christian living does not consist in ducking and becking.
One fisherman emptied the contents of a ducking gun into the serpent's head, as he supposed, but the creature playfully wriggled a few fathoms of its tail and made off.
He was watching Alvin Adams and Corporal Robe, who were engaged in the rollicking sport of ducking each other.
I am; I should like to try it again; I owe the corporal the biggest ducking he ever had.
It would have been easy for me to get assistance in ducking that night; but I wouldn't go without ye, and you had the irons on.
Ducking low, one of the men attempted to seize Merry about the waist.
Also, get two thousand rounds of ammunition for the twelve gages, ducking loads, for we may want to do some shooting.
As for the chance market shooter paddling his log pirogue to his shooting ground in the dawn, or the occasional sportsman of some ducking club likewise engaged, they saluted us gaily enough, but without suspicion.
You followed that stream down, with no more trouble than ducking under a wire fence once in a while, until you came to my land, and until you saw me.
There is no worse sea boat than a low, flat ducking boat, decked though she be, and of good coaming, for she butts into and does not rise to a sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ducking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
