He, who was used to linen sheets and eider down, was without rough blanket or shelter; who was used to the best table in the state, was reduced to husks.
"The Crisis, Volume 6"
Winston Churchill
Do I Northward turn- O'er the waste lands lone, Soft as eider down Are the snowflakes blown.
"Russian Lyrics"
Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
Some of the chapters, like those of the Woodcock and the Coon, represent the characteristics of scores of animals and birds of the same species; others, like those of the Bear and eider-Duck in "Animal Surgery," represent the acute intelligence of certain individual animals that nature seems to have lifted enormously above the level of their fellows; and in a single case-that of the Toad-I have, for the story's sake, gathered into one creature the habits of four or five of these humble little helpers of ours that I have watched at different times and in different places.
"A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories"
William Long