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In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.
i gave a start as if goosed from behind
Well, fuck a duck.
In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
Canoodling, I see.
Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.
Foxhunting ... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
Flapping my arms I began to cluck, look at me, I'm the disco duck.
When you are falling
Dive!
Was that you or the duck?Duck-- Groucho Marx
I've always wanted to kick a duck up the ass.
Don't do that."
"Don't do what?"
"Sneak around."
"Do you mean walk around? Because that's what I actually did. I usually crouch more when I sneak - and then I kill someone.
Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.
I spread my arms. In the Rainbow Jungles of Ever there lives what I affectionately call, killer ducks.
Raucous quacking sounded in Firestar's ear. He jumped up, staring around wildly until he spotted a duck in the water beside the reed bed.
Make Way for Ducklings, or They Will Smack You Upside the Head
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.
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!
This duck tells me nothing!
Thought you could steal the pepper, did you?! Thought you could try darning my socks while I was asleep, did you?! I wanted those holes there, you little bastard! I wanted those holes there!" He throttled the duck and swung it up and down, whumping it on the table.
I was doing what I have done for most of my life, which is to cover for the mistakes of others when they don't know they have embarrassed themselves.
Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.
Lord love a duck.
In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false and impotent when called upon to assist; the really great alone plan instantaneous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties.
Waiting for something to fall into your lap is a good way to get goosed
kneeling down in front of
If a woman is successful, she'd better duck, because they'll be out to get her.
Farting, don't think, just fart.
Queer Ducks flock together.
Never trust a duck.
I don't want to be a chicken. I don't want to be a duck. So I shake my butt.
Him, trying to do the same.
is the answer none of the above
crouched in a hole like a mud-streaked fugitive
everyday a different version of
pouring it away like a water through a sieve
What are you doing here?" I asked. I was breathless, not certain any longer if it was my nearly plummeting to my death or his nearness that was making it so hard to draw in air.
"Protecting you. What does it look like I'm doing?
Johanna: What's it feel like when you dive?
Jacques: It's a feeling of slipping without falling. The hardest thing is when you're at the bottom.
Johanna: Why?
Jacques: 'Cause you have to find a good reason to come back up... and I have a hard time finding one.
Sometimes you have to crouch to conquer
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.
Lying to the Left is like water to fish
Sitting still as stone watching - watching
People walking by you wondering why
No one ever stops to talk or thinks about it - if they ever did
Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there's skill involved, and they're all handmade.
The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.
behind. Something-- Jodi Picoult
Free diving is not entirely free: to go down you leave behind
In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
Running away can also be running to.
Laughing (they thought we were laughing at them). Walking fast (they thought we were running).
You're not hiding, but you're sitting in a gay bar at dinnertime. You're not hiding, but you're wearing that suit like it's armor.
If you are falling....dive.
For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman; ... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.
Sleepwalking down the hall like a firefly in the fog.
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
Whining and panting beneath
There is a way of avoiding which resembles seeking.
Swam ashore, man, like a duck; I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn.
If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.
Wriggled to avoid the lump that always seemed directly under
If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
Yielding, like ice about to melt.
One man's duck is another man's swan.
It was as if a man should have jumped out of a frying pan into - a duckpond.
Pretending that Shiloh's a bear, tryin' to get in. The more they squeal, the more Shiloh wiggles about, tryin' to get his nose under the edge of the sheet, tail going ninety miles an hour. If that dog had wings, he'd fly, except his propeller would be on the wrong end.
They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)
Turning hurriedly away from the dead longpaw,
Not exactly,' Richter said. 'We're going to attack an armed road convoy and seize a nuclear weapon that the Russians are trying to deliver to London.'
'Fuck a duck,' Colin Dekker said, and sat down.
A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
We was doing a lot of what our officers called "maneuvering" - which is officer talk for running
sucking on a football.
I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.
We pursue that which retreats from us.
Failing to look inscrutable to any but the habitually dismissive ...
Surrender to the flow.
smacking his fist into
around, hiding for hours in dark shadows until the target comes
Duck, big brother! Here comes another day!
trying to help her out of
He is being nibbled to death by ducks.
--More Later, Less the Same
Dancing cheek to cheek.
When you turn your back on someone, they come running after you.
All along the backwater,
Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling,
Up tails all!
Ducks' tails, drakes' tails,
Yellow feet a-quiver,
Yellow bills all out of sight
Busy in the river!
Everyone's running from something.
You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
Get back up when you're knocked down.
throwing the football. But instead
I hide, I protect, I pretend.
We lifted up and then bobbed.
"Back! Pull it back!" (Christopher)
"It's hard." (Kitty)
"The ground is harder!" (Christopher)
To ensnare an elusive answer, camouflage the question.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it is a very unfortunate situation for the batting team. On the other side of the image, although being definitely unfortunatable for the batting team, it is most definitely a glorious silver lining for the bowling team.
Grandma pulled a .44 magnum out of her purse. Everybody duck, and I'll shoot out his tires.
perch on the wall
Pixie and Dixie just did a drive by on Donald Duck, but they shot and missed and now Bugs Bunny is getting kind of pissed.
It's hard to keep your head when the ground's moving 'neath your feet
I dive as much as I can.
Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man.
WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK?
"What duck?"
AH. SORRY.
Loaming is my special word for it..it's a combination of looming and roaming
On the sly, scoping for love.
I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.
Hiding here, are you? That's awkward." "Why?" "Because I had intended to hide here myself." "You may hide here with me, if you wish.