And then he got really upset and was all, 'Geese don't say quack-quack!. From Wordnik.com. [Storytelling Tip #381: Respect Your Audience] Reference
There's none of that clickety-click, quack-quack stuff which we'd been practising all day. From Wordnik.com. [Eyes down] Reference
My one-year-old made the 'quack-quack' sound when he saw it, which can only mean that he thinks it's a cat, too. From Wordnik.com. [Easter? Is That You?] Reference
But I was really tired, so when I got to the part with the goose that lays the golden egg, I accidentally made it say quack-quack. From Wordnik.com. [Storytelling Tip #381: Respect Your Audience] Reference
Their quack-quack, drum-drum, hoo-hoo, is one of our pleasant memories of. From Wordnik.com. [The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America] Reference
As he tried to speak he just heard, "Quack quack quacking quacked quack quackly quack-a-quack quack-quack.". From Wordnik.com. [Gawker: defamer] Reference
And she would rattle her little pail with all the nuts and the marbles and the quack-quack and the fish and the frog. From Wordnik.com. [Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds] Reference
And then she'd put her quack-quack in her pail, and then she'd put her fish in her pail, and then she'd put her frog in her pail. From Wordnik.com. [Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds] Reference
I'll bet if you could translate that quack-quack patter of theirs you'd get lines that would be a reg'lar scream on the big time circuit. From Wordnik.com. [Torchy and Vee] Reference
Just like some conventional medicine doesn't make it through EBM and is quackery, some of the CAM techniques drop down and go quack-quack too. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
It takes an actress of true greatness and charisma to bring a lump to your throat with a line like "I want my quack-quack," and Colbert manages it. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
Now when a duck says one quack, instead of a double quack-quack, you may know he is feeling very, very miserable, and you don't want to bother him any more than you can help. From Wordnik.com. [Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble] Reference
Then she would shake her pail with all of the nuts and the marbles and the quack-quack and the frog and the fish, and they would all go bingety-bang, crickety-crack, bingety-bang, crickety-crack. From Wordnik.com. [Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds] Reference
A duck, quack-quack, a laugh, tee-hee; the heart is tum-tum, and a talk or speech or sermon, wah-wah. From Wordnik.com. [The Log School-House on the Columbia] Reference
"I will take him on the seat beside me," replied the other, "and maybe he will go 'quack-quack' whenever a person gets in the way of my auto. From Wordnik.com. [Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble] Reference
"Ay, they was drownded, sure enough," spoke a woman's shrill voice, high above the cackle of the hens and the quack-quack of the ducks -- "drownded dead, an 'more's the pity; an' their ma dead, too, an 'their pa in. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
Raphael: “What goes quack-quack?”. From Wordnik.com. [flying: - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
As in quack-quack duck?. From Wordnik.com. [Overheard in the Office] Reference
With a quack-quack here. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of a Goose Girl] Reference
And a quack-quack there. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of a Goose Girl] Reference
"Clear quack-quack is easily uttered.". From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference
Clear ` quack-quack 'is easily uttered! ". From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference
(a) onomatopoeic: boohoo, bow-wow, choo-choo, clip-clop, ding-dong, heehaw, Ping-Pong, pitter-patter, quack-quack, thump-thump, ticktock. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4] Reference
Slide 2: Old Macdonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O And on that farm he had some ducks, E-I-E-I-O With a \ "quack-quack\" here and a \ "quack-quack\" there Here a \ "quack\" there a \ "quack\" Everywhere a \ "quack-quack\" With an "oink-oink" here and an "oink-oink" there Here an "oink", there an "oink", Everywhere an "oink-oink" With a \ "baa-baa\" here and a. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
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