"Eider" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... make enough of his goose. He had a splendid pen made for it, of ebony inlaid with silver, the nest was of purest eider-down, and a special page was appointed to escort it every morning to the water and back. It was fed upon sweet herbs and sponge-cake; it grew enormously fat; and, as time went on, its voice, its appetite, and its healthy condition increased to an astonishing extent. Only one thing ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, April 1878 - Scribner's Illustrated • Various
... walnut, seats amply garnished with cushions for the ease of his tender joints, gave a luxurious aspect to his retirement. His wardrobe contained no less than sixteen robes of silk and velvet, lined with ermine, eider-down, or the soft hair of the Barbary goat. He could not endure cold weather, and had fireplaces and chimneys constructed in every room, usually keeping his apartments almost at furnace heat, much to the discomfort of his household. With ...
— Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII • Charles Morris
... so to speak, melted and dissolved in a soft bed where one sinks into feathers and eider-down. The reins when too warmly covered become inflamed. Stone and other diseases are often due to this, and it invariably produces a delicate constitution, which is the seed-ground of ...
— Emile • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
... de Lord me find you safe and sound. I always keep on tinking you taken prisoner or killed eider by de French or de robbers—one ...
— The Young Buglers • G.A. Henty
... his ear called him back to the realities of life. He sat up as alertly as if he had slept upon eider-down. ...
— On the Firing Line • Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller
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