He is a mountebank that is always quacking of the infirm and diseased parts of books, to show his skill, but has nothing at all to do with the sound.
The chiefest and most useful part of his talent consists in quacking and lying, which he calls answering of objections and convincing the ignorant.
And that is why we always want to see him last, before we walk off over the parched common, and leave the quacking of the ducks to grow fainter and fainter behind us.
And then, of course, we wait, and crane our necks over the pond, and take no heed of the quacking of the ducks, or even of the splash of a young frog as he flops into into the water.
With a loud, continuous quacking the ducks rushed out from beneath this nameless menace, and did not stay their flight till they were safely in the farmyard.
The sound of their quacking was faint in the distance; it was inaudible.
Certainly not; for there is a drake (not a duck) quacking with feeble treble in that cypress, six feet over your head; and in Britain drakes do not live in trees.
Then the goose came quacking up to them and they all three went into the house together to eat their good, good dinner.
But just as they reached the door there was a commotion outside, and the sound of quacking and men's laughter.
She followed, quacking anxiously, and keeping as close to the Man as possible.
But when the ducks saw the barn-door raft sailing among them, they were afraid, and, quacking loudly, they paddled out of the way.
They ran about in the sun, quacking in their baby voices, and the mother hen followed them about, clucking and scratching in the gravel to dig up things for them to eat.
After a time Rob, hearing what he supposed to be the quacking of a duck in the grass behind him, started back to find what he fancied was the hidden mallard.
Most of them were mallards, and from many places in the marsh they could hear the quacking and squawking of yet other ducks hidden in the high grass.
Whilst he was sitting there in the library it happened that a flock of ducks passed by outside quacking loudly and freely.
One day when the sub-prefect was sitting chatting with the priest, they again saw the flock of ducks coming waddling and quacking along.
For the rest it was cunning against cunning, caution against skill, against quacking hordes of wild-fowl in the tulares, against pronghorn and bighorn and deer.
Illustration] Wild fowl, quacking hordes of them, nest in the tulares.
The old bird gets on a little eminence and makes a loud noise, between quacking and braying, holding its head up as if haranguing the Penguinnery, the young one standing close to it, but a little lower.
Now it appears again; this time there are two, and there is another at a distance attracted by thequacking of the duck.
Holding the rope as clear of the water as we could, the poor quacking duck floated slowly down the muddy current, making an occasional vain effort to get free.
There is no doubt but these quacking sort of fellows raised great gains out of the miserable people; for we daily found the crowds that ran after them were infinitely greater, and their doors were more thronged, than those of Dr.
The lady lifted the gate, Mrs. Duck drew out her head and went quacking away, while Mr. Drake testified his delight and gratitude by flapping his wings and quacking at the top of his voice.
This is the signal for all the cormorants (Indians), inside the ring, to commence quacking and dancing and using their arms in imitation of wings, keeping up a continual flapping.
The cormorants perceive the approach of the wolf, and a general quacking and flapping takes place, each one rushing to his nest to secure his food.
It was one of a large family; and in a short time its relatives gathered round the prisoner, clamouring their condolence in every variety of quacking intonation.
Only the deep-toned quacking of Robin Hood was heard, when their object became clear.
A short time afterwards a great deal of quackingwas heard, and a regiment of upwards of forty ducks was seen marching into the yard, headed by two handsome drakes, known by the names of Robin Hood and Friar Tuck.
From right and left, in mysterious side lagoons and pockets, came the low quacking and chattering of wildfowl, now close at hand.
More shots followed; and ducks, quacking loudly, fluttered up out of the marshes.
Ducks were swimming about or absurdly standing on their heads in the shallows, and at our coming went paddling off into the sedges quacking their disapproval.
A singular effect was produced by the multitude of long necks, and the awkward movements of the snow-white mass, accompanied as they were by a ceaseless rise and fall of the quacking chorus.
They would hardly have ventured upon it if they had not heard the quacking of wild-ducks, which led them on till they came upon a little stream.
But they still heard quacking below, and going on they presently found a dozen Mallards and Ducks exactly like those that they had seen on the moor, all full-plumed and full-grown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quacking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
