EI DER DOWN, fine, soft feathers from the eider-duck. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
Later two ptarmigan were spotted, and still later an eider duck. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
I seemed to tread on eider-down, and, cigar in mouth, strolled along. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841] Reference
Every insurgency has an insider, a useful but suspect eider statesman. From Wordnik.com. [Revenge Of The Right] Reference
All four eider species are protected along the entire coast of Russia. From Wordnik.com. [Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic] Reference
The wild eider-duck makes her nest and lays her eggs in the huts of the. From Wordnik.com. [Friends and Helpers] Reference
There, he is in place -- an eagle in a nest lined with down, soft as eider. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
You shall wrap me in eider, that I may be like all the boughs and branches. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
A hawk flies 150 miles per hour; an eider duck 90 miles; a pigeon, 40 miles. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
He looked at Cressida, who angrily confronted him, clutching her eider-down. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
The eider-duck, so much prized for its down, is found in considerable numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2)] Reference
The principal resources of the island are sealskins, eider-down, oil, and cryolite. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
In previous institute studies women have made child and eider care their top concerns. From Wordnik.com. [About That Good News. . .] Reference
They sleep in 3 of the rooms in double-tier beds with straw mattresses and eider-downs. From Wordnik.com. [Moosburg Online: Stalag VII A (Oral history: US POWs)] Reference
This is the celebrated eider down, and it requires no great rapidity of movement to get it. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
The uses that people make of ducks and their feathers and eggs; the gathering of eider-down. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
They do not always bring out pure eider down, however; sometimes they get but a handful of litter. From Wordnik.com. [The Road Leads On] Reference
They sat down in the little front-room, and talked on as the mother brought the promised mug of eider. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
But young Sam's new "Mockery of Justice" does more than just defend the eider Sheppard, who died in 1970. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting 'The Fugitive'] Reference
In Frankie he finds it turned into a pale-blue eider-down quilt, which suits his temperament much better. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference
Soft, fine shavings, or turnings of hard rubber, are said to be excellent as a substitute for eider-down. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882] Reference
She journeyed, for instance, to the island of Vidoe, the cliffs of which are frequented by the eider-duck. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands] Reference
Then she put twenty mattresses on top of the pea, and twenty eider-down quilts on the top of the mattresses. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Fairy Book] Reference
It would be worth while to go ashore upon an islet there, near Vogel Sang, to pay a visit to the eider-ducks. From Wordnik.com. [The North-West Passage] Reference
Polar bears, walruses, seals, whales and ocean-going birds like eider ducks and loons call the Arctic Ocean home. From Wordnik.com. [Bush-era Policies] Reference
We seldom converse tête-à - tête, but I am made to feel that the basis of his character is not of eider-down. '. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
To the right lay a chain of small islands called by the Esquimaux Pikkiulits, (the habitation of young eider-ducks). From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh Undertaken to Explore the Coast, and Visit the Esquimaux in That Unknown Region] Reference
The remaining two include eider populations from the eastern Canadian Arctic and West Greenland, and from northwest Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic] Reference
As illustrated in the figure, a single bird meal of eider may result in a lead intake close to the tolerable weekly intake. From Wordnik.com. [Lead shot from hunting as a source of lead in human blood] Reference
After all, Wolfe observes, other threatened species live in the lease area, starting with a duck called the spectacled eider. From Wordnik.com. [The Edge of Extinction] Reference
"I can't do any good, so I may as well be comfortable," she thought, and pulled the eider-down quilt up to her chin luxuriously. From Wordnik.com. [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference
How cold that night was! and how welcome was the great eider-down pillow, which is generally such a nuisance in continental hotels. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886.] Reference
By April large flocks of geese, eider-ducks, gulls, and little song-birds began to arrive, the latter perching on the rigging of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
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