Cool off for about an hour, take off the grease, bone and skin the duckling and cut the meat into small pieces; arrange nicely with the vegetables in individual earthenware dishes, cover with the stock and put on the ice to harden.
So the duckling was allowed to remain on trial for three weeks, but there were no eggs.
The duckling remembered the lovely birds, and felt more strangely unhappy than ever.
As they mounted higher and higher in the air, the ugly little duckling felt quite a strange sensation as he watched them.
The duckling thought that others might hold a different opinion on the subject, but the hen would not listen to such doubts.
He broke the ice in pieces with his wooden shoe, and carried the duckling home to his wife.
The water closed over their heads, but they came up again in an instant, and swam about quite prettily with their legs paddling under them as easily as possible, and the ugly duckling was also in the water swimming with them.
It would be very sad, were I to relate all the misery and privations which the poor little duckling endured during the hard winter; but when it had passed, he found himself lying one morning in a moor, amongst the rushes.
At length it froze so hard that the ice in the water crackled as he moved, and the duckling had to paddle with his legs as well as he could, to keep the space from closing up.
So the duckling left the cottage, and soon found water on which it could swim and dive, but was avoided by all other animals, because of its ugly appearance.
The storm continued so violent, that the duckling could go no farther; he sat down by the cottage, and then he noticed that the door was not quite closed in consequence of one of the hinges having given way.
All this time the young duckling was swimming further and further away.
If this is so," Henrietta muttered at last, "it's strange nobody ever noticed before that there was a duckling in my brood.
The Merrimac's crew ate their breakfast at their leisure and prepared to drive their ugly duckling into the battle line again and finish the work of destroying the battered Federal squadron.
The ugly duckling of the Confederacy, in plain view of the whole Federal fleet and witnessed by French and English vessels, captured three schooners and carried them into port as prizes of war.
And looking confidingly up in the lady's sweet, sympathizing face, Mabel told the whole story of the finding of the ducklingbeneath the currant bush, and how she had brought him away.
But if the duckling were sick or ailing, Mabel had no desire to claim him.
Mamie almost indignantly; "a duckling is nothing to your own mamma.
Stooping down to the tiny sheet of water, Mabel at last hastily withdrew her hand from beneath her skirt, and gently dropped the duckling into it.
Mabel gave the dead duckling into Nannette's hands to be carried home; but arrived there, she took it at once to her father, and made an honest confession of the whole affair.
Very much relieved, and thankful that she had made up her mind to confess, Mabel ran away to her mother, receiving permission from Mr. Clark to keep the duckling for the proposed funeral honors.
This was not observed by Maggie, however, who soon forgot both epitaph andduckling in the various pleasures provided for her entertainment.
So now I could only hope that Duckling had not had a pistol, since whoever had rifled his box must have met with it.
But Duckling was a bad 'un too, and so was the skipper.
The otter was a female; probably she had young to feed; the presence of the duckling darkly hinted at it.
Swimming on the part of a duckling is, from the biological point of view, a typical example of instinctive behaviour.
Let us take the case of the swimming duckling or the pecking chick, and fix our attention on the first instinctive performance.
At last there came a morning when the eldest Duckling could not go to the brook with the others.
The youngest Duckling in the poultry-yard had always known that this was no excuse at all, and that if people have disagreeable habits which make others unhappy, it is something of which they should be much ashamed.
And now that they all walked away and his mother was looking after the Duckling who was just breaking her shell, he didn't like it--he didn't like it at all.
Then a Duckling who stood near him exclaimed, "Look at his train!
The Geese were off swimming, and so could not see the Duckling when first he came out of the shell.
It is so in the farmyard, and although there is not much work that the people there can do for each other, there are many kind things to be said, and even the Lame Duckling found that he could make the Blind Horse happy when he tried.
And the Duckling told him what the other farmyard people were doing, and about the soft, fleecy clouds that drifted across the blue sky.
If he had had no brothers and sisters, he would have been a lonely little fellow; besides, he would have had his own way nearly all the time, and that is likely to make any Duckling selfish.
They stalked and waddled over to the Blind Horse, and the Duckling told him what was puzzling them.
Now that the first Duckling had chipped the shell, everybody wanted to see him, and there was soon a crowd of fowls around the nest watching him free himself from it.
The eldest Duckling had supposed that this was life, to have people around saying, "How bright he is!
The Blind Horse and the Duckling became very fond of each other and had a fine time.
The Drake heard her and quacked the news to every one around, and flapped his wings, and preened his feathers, for was not this the first Duckling ever hatched on the farm?
But at first the Ugly Duckling had a baddish time of it.
It was in a big town in the Midlands that the Ugly Duckling first chipped shell.
The Ugly Duckling now felt able to flap his wings.
But the Ugly Duckling was an odd bird, as well as an ill-favoured one, and gave much trouble and excited much jealousy in the duck-yard.
The Ugly Duckling had never seen any so lovely before.
They rose so high that the Ugly Duckling felt a strange sensation come over him, a sort of delicious vertigo.
This was like suggesting a hand to hand fight--four against twelve, and Duckling had the sense to hold his tongue.
After awhile they came down, and immediately Duckling ordered the fore and main royals to be furled.
Duckling and the skipper watched us grimly from the poop.
Just then Duckling overhead sang out to the men to get the fore-topmast stun'-sail in: and Coxon at once quitted the cabin and went on deck.
It was brief enough in reality, though Duckling seemed to find them work for a good while.
The captain was cracking on to make up for lost time, and he was on deck when I went below at ten o'clock to get some rest before relieving Duckling at midnight.
Duckling pointed up aloft, and his voice sounded, though I did not hear the order.
Presently Mr. Duckling left the captain and ordered the men to go forward.
Duckling began to fumble at one of the boat's falls.
Saying which, I reseated myself, folded my arms resolutely, and suffered the carpenter to lock the irons on my ankles, keeping my eyes fixed on Duckling with an expression of the utmost scorn and dislike in them.
Decked out in a tiny uniform, the ugly duckling ran wild in the army posts where her father was stationed, and joined right boisterously in the soldiers' rough sports.
A kind-hearted neighbor, Miss Anne Dwyer, took pity on the poor, abused little ugly duckling and taught her to read and write.
So she let the duckling go, and at last she said, 'Yes, I will go and play with Niebla down by the river.
But the duckling only struggled to get away and screamed, 'Oh, mamma, mamma, come and take me away from Alma!
On August 21, one duckling in the second family strayed out toward the center of the lake, whereupon the adult female swam out and herded the young bird back toward the group nearer the shore line.
Another gull which attacked a duckling was in turn attacked by the parents (a pair of Chilian wigeons), with such success that the exhausted gull was killed with a stick by one of the Park constables.
Canon Tristram "to seize a ducklingin its large foot, crush its head and eat its brains, leaving the rest untouched.
It would be very sad were I to relate all the misery and privations which the poor little duckling endured during the hard winter; but when it had passed he found himself lying one morning in a moor, amongst the rushes.
They mounted higher and higher in the air, and the ugly little duckling had a strange sensation as he watched them.
So the ducklingwas allowed to remain on trial for three weeks; but there were no eggs.
He broke the ice in pieces with his wooden shoe and carried the duckling home to his wife.
But her sight was not very good; therefore when she saw the duckling she thought it must be a fat duck that had strayed from home.
And so they made themselves comfortable; but the poor duckling who had crept out of his shell last of all and looked so ugly was bitten and pushed and made fun of, not only by the ducks but by all the poultry.
So the duckling left the cottage and soon found water on which it could swim and dive, but he was avoided by all other animals because of his ugly appearance.
The storm continued so violent that the duckling could go no farther.
We have been told what the mother duck felt when her ugly duckling turned into a swan, but we have never considered how much the ugly duckling must have marvelled also.
The woman clapped her hands, at which the Duckling flew down into the butter-tub, and then into the meal-barrel and out again.
The Duckling was forced to swim about in the water, to prevent the surface from freezing entirely; but every night the hole in which it swam about became smaller and smaller.
The storm whistled round the Duckling in such a way that the poor creature was obliged to sit down, to stand against it; and the tempest grew worse and worse.
The poor Duckling was hunted about by every one; even its brothers and sisters were quite angry with it, and said, "If the cat would only catch you, you ugly creature!
Early in the morning a peasant came by, and when he saw what had happened, he took his wooden shoe, broke the ice-crust to pieces, and carried the Duckling home to his wife.
The children wanted to play with it; but the Duckling thought they would do it an injury, and in its terror fluttered up into the milk-pan, so that the milk spurted down into the room.
And so the Duckling was admitted on trial for three weeks; but no eggs came.
But it would be too melancholy if I were to tell all the misery and care which the Duckling had to endure in the hard winter.
Then the Duckling noticed that one of the hinges of the door had given way, and the door hung so slanting that the Duckling could slip through the crack into the room; and it did so.
The Duckling knew the splendid creatures, and felt oppressed by a peculiar sadness.
But the poor Duckling which had crept last out of the egg, and looked so ugly, was bitten and pushed and jeered, as much by the ducks as by the chickens.
Duckling turned in every direction, and bowed as well as it could.
What an ugly duckling I am among you all, only Elias to comfort me with his "divine plain face of a woman.
This school-girl, whom he had as a matter of course either overlooked or patronised, and who was certainly plain to the point of being the ugly duckling of the family, dwelt thenceforth enthroned in his heart.
The spring duckling is delightful eating, but its peculiar flavor is not always relished at first; they are best broiled.
Squabs treated in the same manner as the duckling are most appetizing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duckling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
