Word: teal
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...country gentlewoman with as much poise as poetry about her. Her flight from the bosom of Moncktonism?father, manor, cousins, suitor ?to the humbler hearth and home of Andrew Bullen, tweeded biologist, is not like the flapping of a decapitated chicken but like the career of a startled teal, which will explore other ponds before circling back to an inviting one nearby...
...first described the quail, grouse, and woodcock which are found in the grain fields of New England. Further south, especially in Florida, shore birds flock in great numbers, but are extremely difficult to photograph. The larger game birds,-geese, ducks and teal, are found by thousands along the lakes throughout North Dakota...
...Rushers, Warren, Butler, Vogel, Teal, Shag, Houghton, Gould; quarter-back, Gay; half-backs, McPherson, Whitman; full-back, Paul...
...Rochester caterer, Teal by name, had been engaged by '87 to prepare their banquet in Ithaca itself. A sophomore went to him in person, and persuaded Teal that he was a freshman. Teal was ordered to change the place of banqueting to a village named Tremansburg, because, as the '86 men said, there was danger in Ithaca from sophomores. More, other sophomores hired the Opera house at Tremeansburg and a minstrel troupe and brass band to act as waiters. When Friday morning came, Teal, acting on instructions, telegraphed to the real freshmen that he had missed the train and would...