"Canvasback" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... received in New York and in the larger cities which he visited the highest social attention from the leading families. I met him several times and found that he never could be reconciled to our two most famous dishes—terrapin and canvasback duck—the duck nearly raw. He said indignantly to one hostess, who chided him for his neglect of the canvasback: "Madam, when your ancestors left England two hundred and fifty years ago, the English of that time were accustomed to eat their meat raw; now they cook it." To which ...
— My Memories of Eighty Years • Chauncey M. Depew
... standing on the mud bank, flung, one by one, a squadron of wooden, painted, canvasback decoys into the water, where they righted themselves, and presently rode the waves, bobbing and steering with startling fidelity ...
— Blue-Bird Weather • Robert W. Chambers
... the dyspeptic's fast be his lot. If the eyes gaze on Coypel's gracious ladies, under fruit and roses, with adolescent gods adoring, what matters if the palate is chastised? In a dining-room soft-hung with piquant scenes, even buttermilk and dog-biscuit, burnt canvasback and cold Burgundy ...
— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee
... Canvasback (A. vallisneria). Head and neck dark-red, eye of male red, bill and feet of ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton
... bad as the weather is; for indeed the professor gives me a great deal of anxiety, and if you had stayed away to-night I could not have been answerable for the consequences. There, now; hurry up-stairs and change your dress, and come down to tea. It is all ready, and we have a pair of canvasback ...
— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth |
