He threw out biting remarks on Lydgate's tricks, worthy only of a quack, to get himself a factitious reputation with credulous people.
They all told him what the trouble was, and he said, "Quack!
She gathered together her quack periodicals and her quack medicines, and thus armed with death, went about on her pale horse, metaphorically speaking, with "hell following after.
They accused him of "promoting quack treatments" for "personal financial gain" and urged Columbia to sever its ties with him.
All at once there began to go a sort of bustle among the bulrushes; a wild duck flew up with a quack, another followed, and soon over the whole surface of the marsh a great cloud of birds hung screaming and circling in the air.
'I think the very common reaction, even 15 years ago, would have been, 'These guys are California quack jobs,'' says Mr.
However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.
" "Quack!
The hens clucked, and the cocks crowed, and the ducks waddled to and fro, and said, "Quack, quack!
They nudged each other, and said, "Quack!
" "Quack, quack," said the mother, and then they all quacked as well as they could, and looked about them on every side at the large green leaves.
Then the turkey-cock puffed himself out as large as he could, and inquired who he was; and the ducks waddled backwards, crying, "Quack, quack.
