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Example sentences for "wild fowl"

  • In the opinion of Captain Grey, wild fowl dressed in this manner, on a clean piece of bark, was as good a dish as he had ever eaten.

  • On Long Island shooting of wild fowl, carting of grain, travelling for pleasure, all were punished.

  • Why does the political economist lie, and why the lie about the wild fowl too?

  • I set off, but not only found no wild fowl, the swamp itself had been dry for a long time.

  • Wild fowl, too, teemed on the inland lake; and foxes, which must have drifted ashore on the ice float of spring, ran wild through the sedge.

  • In no sense whatever are they intended to preserve or increase the supply of wild fowl.

  • The market gunners and game dealers not only proposed to repeal the law against spring shooting but also to defeat all legislation that might be attempted to restrict the sale of game, or impose bag limits on wild fowl.

  • In the doing of this, I picked up about a score of wild fowl, and caught fish sufficient to serve the whole party; and reaching the place of rendezvous a little before dark, I found all the gentlemen out duck- shooting.

  • In it is a good anchoring-place, wood, fresh water, wild fowl, and fish.

  • Nor did the shores and woods appear less destitute of wild fowl; so that we hoped to enjoy with ease, what, in our situation, might be called the luxuries of life.

  • Illustration] Wild fowl, small game and shore birds are found in almost every part of the Maritime Provinces.

  • The country through which we are passing is that of the blackbird and the bobolink, and the rivers, water reaches and tall grasses are the homes of wild fowl of almost every kind.

  • The rivers of this district are full of wild fowl in the spring and fall.

  • Wild fowl may be known to be old from their bills and the stiffness of the sinews of the legs, those that have the finest plumage are the worst eating.

  • And so at length, the dawn came, softening the gloom, and I could hear the roar of the great bodies of wild fowl rising as they always do at dawn, the tumult of their wings rivaling the heavy rhythm of the surf itself.

  • Fifteen minutes more, and he caught another view of the lake, which appeared to be about two miles long and a quarter of a mile across, a fine sheet of water, on which great numbers of wild fowl swam, or over which they hovered.

  • Far over his head a flock of wild fowl in arrow formation flew southward, and for the moment they expressed to him, as he lay in the snare, the very quintessence of freedom.

  • When he returned, however, he was bound to take notice of the vast quantity of wild fowl in the swamp.

  • A substantial feast was provided for them, consisting of venison, wild fowl, and fruits.

  • The cries of wild fowl awaking in the forests, with occasionally the merry chaunt of some native warbler, arousing to the day, spake also in the language of encouragement.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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