Word: eiderdown
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...Farrell. It excels in fluent, natural descriptions of English country life (that peculiar combination of rigorous and relaxed living), in its feminine lightness, and in its sharp summings-up of occasional characters-such as prematurely balding Lord Fort William, whose "hair seemed to be slipping off backwards, like an eiderdown in the night," and Linda's newborn infant, which lay "deep down among the frills and lace . . . a howling orange in a fine black...
...smeared, his head ached and he was sick at his stomach. His wife and baby lay huddled asleep in the back seat of the Austin. In a junior bed, flanked by the garden roller and a sandbox, slept Phyllis, 6, John 3. The nurse lay rolled up in an eiderdown beside...
...warm in summer, rarely gets below freezing even in midwinter, when there is no sun for nearly three months. In the summer, when the sun never sets from May 13 to July 29, remaining visible for 18 hours daily until autumn, there is a busy trade in fish, reindeer, eiderdown, fox pelts, whale oil. Occasionally a cruise ship on the way to bleak North Cape, 75 miles farther on, drops anchor to give its passengers a chance to swim in the warm water, pick flowers, stare at the flat-faced Lapps. The town is not much to see, standing...
...Economically, the land north of the Arctic circle has been of vast importance for the last 200 years. Such commodities as furs, fish, whale oil, seal oil, eiderdown, and ivory have been exported for our use and profit. For example, the Hudson Bay Company, one of the oldest trading concerns in the world, has taken out millions of dollars in the fur trade. The cryolite mines in southern Greenland are the world's only source of that ore, which is used in the manufacture of aluminum. It is hard to estimate the value of the whale oil that has been...
...doubt fathered by the lynx-eyed Lawyer-but the Doctor, who fostered this gossip by certifying Oliver's sterility, bore a time-honored grudge against both shipper and lawyer. So Oliver continued squabbling, capitalizing his crippled state, trespassing on distant islands for illicit loot-birds' eggs and eiderdown which he smuggled on stormy nights to transient English sailors. "Small things and great occur, a tooth falls out of the jaw, a man out of the ranks, a sparrow to the ground...