There the eider duck builds its nest and spends the brief summer of the Arctic.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Everybody knows Tug Whittle, and admits that he is perfectly harmless and hopelessly lazy-always excepting Silas Davy, who believes that his friend is very energetic and dangerous; therefore when Silas is unable to hold a position because he is a good fellow, or because he spends so much time at night with Tug that he is unfit for work during the day, he is also an inhabitant of the little law office, along with the lawyer and the rats, although it is not much of a law office, for it contains nothing but a stove, half cooking and half heating, a bed that looks as though it came from the fourth story of a cheap hotel, a few broken chairs, a box that is the lawyer's table, and a few other articles common to a kitchen, all of them second-hand, and very poor.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
A victim of too much work is little Ben; but he is as mild and gentle as ever, and spends his days, when he is able, in wandering about the yard, and keeping out of the way, for he cannot forget the time when every hand was against him.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe