In a dining-room soft-hung with piquant scenes, even buttermilk and dog-biscuit, burnt canvasback and cold Burgundy lose half their bitterness.
"The Tapestry Book"
Helen Churchill Candee
The canvasback is a late and temporary visitant of our lakes, marshes, and tide flats, on his journey to the south.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Lobster in every form is a favorite supper delicacy, and the grouse; snipe, woodcock, teal; canvasback, and squab on toast, are always in order.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood