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The word goose (plural: geese) is the English name for a considerable number of birds, belonging to the family Anatidae. This family also includes swans, most of which are larger than true geese, and ducks, which are smaller.

The term goose applies to the female in particular. The word gander is used for a male in particular. Young birds before fledging are called goslings. A group of geese on the ground is called a gaggle; when geese fly in formation they are called a wedge or a skein.

Geese are monogamous, living in permanent pairs throughout the year; however, unlike most other permanently monogamous animals, they are territorial only during the short nesting season.

A number of other waterbirds, mostly related to the shelducks, have “goose” as part of their name.

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Duck

Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. The ducks are divided between several subfamilies in the Anatidae family.

Ducks are mostly aquatic birds, mostly smaller than the swans and geese, and may be found in both fresh water and sea water.

Ducks are sometimes confused with several types of unrelated water birds with similar forms, such as loons or divers, grebes, gallinules, and coots.

Ducks exploit a variety of food sources such as grasses, aquatic plants, fish, insects, small amphibians, worms, and small molluscs.

Diving ducks and sea ducks forage deep underwater. To be able to submerge more easily, the diving ducks are heavier than dabbling ducks, and therefore have more difficulty taking off to fly.

Two Fake Ducks who snuck in here - click for image credit

Dabbling ducks feed on the surface of water or on land, or as deep as they can reach by up-ending without completely submerging.

Swans and geese are not considered ducks.

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Duck Quotes*

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A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
- Tom Shales

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A few feathers short of a whole duck
- Author unknown

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A peasant will stand on the top of a hill for a very long time with his mouth open, before a roast duck will fly in
- Proverb

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Always behave like a duck – keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath
- Jacob Braude

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Always do that, wild duck. Stick at the bottom. Deep as they can get. . . . And so they never come up again.
- Henrik Ibsen

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An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck.
- Thomas Merton

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And who so happy,- O who, / As the Duck and the Kangaroo?
- Edward Lear

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Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.
- Charles Lamb

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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
- Michael Caine

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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.
- Hans Christian Andersen

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Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
- Eric Sevareid, journalist. (1912-1992)

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Desperate ducks commit desperate acts!
- Howard T. Duck

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Don’t duck the most difficult problems. That just insures that the hardest…
- Norman Vincent Peale

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Don’t quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
- Ken Blanchard

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Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide
- Hebrew Proverb

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Every duck has his limit, and you scum have pushed me over the line!
- Howard T. Duck

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Happy as a duck in water
- Proverb

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He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain
- Douglas Jerrold

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Hold-fast is the only dog, my duck.
- William Shakespeare

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Honey, I forgot to duck. (to his wife, on losing the World Heavyweight title)
- Jack Dempsey

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I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he’s a weird duck but I like him a lot.
- Peter Tork

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I look like a duck. It’s the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.
- Michelle Pfeiffer

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I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.
- David Knopfler

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I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don’t know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I’ll have a longer shelf life.
- Robert Carlyle

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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
- Douglas Adams

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If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck
- Proverb

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If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back.
- Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.
- Mark Twain

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I’m like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.
- Fred Shero

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I’m the lamest lame duck there could be.
- George Wallace

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In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.
- Jim Sensenbrenner

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It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband…..but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.
- Isabella Beeton

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It rolled like water off a duck’s back
- Proverb

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It rolled off my back like a duck
- Samuel Goldwyn

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It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I’d been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
- Cat Stevens

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Duck

“There was an Old Person of Bray,
Who sang through the whole of the day
To his ducks and his pigs,
whom he fed upon figs,
That valuable Person of Bray.
- Edward Lear, English artist, (1812-1888)

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Duck Quotes*

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It’s as hard to see a woman crying as it is to see a barefooted duck.
- Irish Proverb

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judgment, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
- Bobby Fischer

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Like a duck out of water
- Proverb

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
- Confucius

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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
- Chinese Proverb

Two Ducklings - click for image credit

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Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.
- Richard Lewis

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No duck is an island.
- Howard T. Duck from the movie Howard the Duck (1986)

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No one laughs at a master of Quack Fu!
- Howard T. Duck

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Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck leads the flock to fly and follow.
- Chinese Proverb

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Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
- Proverb

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Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
- Lucian Freud

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Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.
- Graham Greene

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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
- Orson Welles

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Rock ‘n’ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
- Bono

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Singing songs like ‘The Man I Love’ or ‘Porgy’ is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
- Billie Holiday

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Sir, we had a rubber…duck contingency. – It’s been aborted
- Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006)

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sky, points to a seagull, and says, ‘Duck!’…
- Russell Crowe

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So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.
- Tim Vine

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Take three quarts of duck’s milk.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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That’s it, no more Mr. Nice Duck.
- Howard T. Duck

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That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
- George Foreman

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The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.
- Jamie Muir

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The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
- C. Wright Mills

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The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck
- Walter Cronkite

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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
- Igor Stravinsky

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What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.
- Alice B. Toklas

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What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a ‘modem’, can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo
- Dave Barry

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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
- Doug Coupland

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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
- James Whitcomb Riley

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When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.
- Penelope Cruz

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With a rubber duck, one’s never alone
- Author unknown

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You can’t aim a duck to death.
- Beverly Sills

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You know, it’s just one small step from legacy to lame duck.
- Bill Clinton

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You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that’s how I go about it.
- Alan Rudolph

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Bird quotes about and referencing swallows

Barn Swallow

The Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world.

In Anglophone Europe it is just called the Swallow; in Northern Europe it is the only common species called a “swallow” rather than a “martin”.

Identification Tips:
• Length: 6 inches
• Tiny bill
• Dark orange forehead and throat
• Pale orange underparts
• Dark, iridiscent upperparts
• Long, deeply forked tail
• Juvenile similar to adult but paler underneath with a shorter tail
• Most often seen flying
• Will nest communally in mud nests under bridges, in barns and caves, etc

Similar species:
The Barn Swallow can be told from all swallows by its deeply forked tail.

There are six subspecies of Barn Swallow, which breed across the Northern Hemisphere.

Four are strongly migratory, and their wintering grounds cover much of the Southern Hemisphere as far south as central Argentina, the Cape Province of South Africa, and northern Australia.

The Barn Swallow is a bird of open country which normally uses man-made structures to breed and consequently has spread with human expansion.

Swallow Quotes

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Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if
there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and
most complete. For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and
so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle

Idiom definition – “For one swallow does not make a summer”
Also : “One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day”

Barn Swallow

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How amiable are thy tabernacles,O L of hosts! 96 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the L: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O L of hosts, my King, and my God.
Bible (Old Testament) Psalms 84:1.

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He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the L hath spoken it.
Bible (Old Testament) Isaiah 25:8.

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Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree’s shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twitt’ring from the straw-built shed, The cock’s shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Thomas Elegy Gray

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Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow, How can thine heart be full of the spring? A thousand summers are over and dead. What hast thou found in the spring to follow? What hast thou found in thine heart to sing? What wilt thou do when the summer is shed?
Algernon Charles Swinburne

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O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves, And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee. O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is the North.
Tennyson

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O tell her, Swallow that thy brood is flown: Say to her, I do but wanton in the South, But in the North long since my nest is made.
Tennyson

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot

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Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Bible

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Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop the truth that is bitter.
Denis Diderot

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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings
William Shakespeare

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People can be induced to swallow anything, provide it is sufficiently seasoned with praise
Moliere

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Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it
Proverb

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For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Bible

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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
Gwendolyn Brooks

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People can be induced to swallow anything, provide it is sufficiently seasoned with praise
Moliere

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To swallow gudgeons ere they’re catched, And count their chickens ere they’re hatched
Samuel Butler

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A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest
Havelock Ellis

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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings
William Shakespeare

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By following the concept of “one country, two systems,” you don’t swallow me up nor I you.
Deng Xiaoping

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Little Raven

The Little Raven (Corvus mellori) is a species of the crow and raven family Corvidae, that is endemic to Australia. It has all-black plumage, beak and legs with a white iris.

The Little Raven was first named in 1912; however, it wasn’t until 1967 there was consensus to separate it from the Australian Raven (C. coronoides) as a distinct species.

The Little Raven ranges over southeastern Australia from southern South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. They are also found in Kangaroo Island (S.A) and King Island (Bass Strait).

They live within scrub, agricultural areas, grazing pasture, woodlands to treeless plains, coasts, and suburbs.

Little Ravens tend to eat vegetable matter and feed mainly on the ground, but are probably omnivorous when the opportunity arises.

These birds often nest in a loose colony of up to fifteen pairs, with nests few meters apart.

The raven is considered first and foremost a bird of evil. A group of ravens is a “terror” of ravens and a “murder” of crows, a very similar bird.

Raven Quotes

Little Raven - found in Australia

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Foster a raven and it will peck out your eyes.
A Spanish quote

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The raven chides blackness.
Danish

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,–
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore!”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

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Bring up a raven, and he will peck out your eyes.
A French, German proverb

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One raven does not peck out another’s eyes.
A Danish quote

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Ravens do not peck out raven’s eyes.
Italian, French

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But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven
shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and
the stones of emptiness.
A Bible quote

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To the raven her own chick is white.
Irish Proverb

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And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: / And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
A Bible quote

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Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
Juvenal

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He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
Seneca

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His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
A Bible quote

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There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
James Russell Lowell

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The sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man’s passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings.
Christopher Marlowe

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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil’d.
Milton, John

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‘Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!’ Quoth the raven,’Nevermore.’
Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Raven’

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