She pointed out that with ducks there was a name for male and female.
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None of the justices "ducked" both of these claims - three of them decided against our position on the first and five on the second.
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Adult worms were obtained from chicks and ducks, but not from rats, mice and golden hamsters.
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In that setting, modernization theorists, precisely because they stood for the swiftest and most influential currents of the liberal tradition, were sitting ducks.
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Lame ducks were no longer connected electorally to their districts, making them unpredictable in terms of how they would behave.
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Students understood all this and acted upon it by constantly ducking classes or, worse, disrupting them.
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The prepatent period was similar in both chicks and ducks and varied between 9 and 14 (11.6 1.3) days.
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In short, we find no evidence that lame ducks shirked toward the president, viewed narrowly as the agent of his party.
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Our primary independent variables are two dummies-for lame ducks of the president's party and lame ducks of the other party, respectively.
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Intestinal helminths of lesser scaup ducks : an interactive community.
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Yes, did you see many ducks there?
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They were like ducks listening to thunder.
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We watched the ducks today.
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Afterfiveminutes, he went off with the ducks.
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We might find the duck's propensity to leave its droppings around ponds objectionable, but that would hardly count as making ducks that leave their droppings around defective ducks.
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Collocationswithduck
duck
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diving duck
Though classified as adivingduck, this pochard feeds more like a dabbling duck.
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domestic duck
The second is that this amendment defines what is meant by "domestic duck"and"domestic goose", but how about the pigeon and the quail?
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duck egg
He has an open wound the size of aduckeggin the upper part of his thigh.
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