The main tunnel or road to the home is sometimes fifty feet in length, and no engineer could devise a more deceptive approach; it winds up and down like a huge serpent, to the right, and to the left, and is so annoyingly variable in its sinuous course that even the natives have great trouble in digging the duckbill out of its nest.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
duckbill intercepted me on the edge of the clearing one morning especially to propound the law of the land.
"Tropic Days"
E. J. Banfield
duckbill, who was unable to comprehend that he and others of the camp had by abandonment forfeited all rights to Soosie and that she was now a "white Mary," made it plain that he would forcibly abduct her if I would but give him the slight assistance of expulsion.
"Tropic Days"
E. J. Banfield