Sentences with phrase «duckling who»

Anne the red - headed ugly duckling who arrives at Green Gables full of hope for a new life, only to discover Marilla and Matthew wanted a boy... Anne getting herself into all sorts of scrapes... Marilla and Matthew falling hopelessly in love with their adopted daughter... Anne achieving academically against all the odds her early life threw at her... Anne winning hearts... Anne losing her beloved Matthew... Anne giving up on her dream of going to college to care for Marilla... Anne forgiving Gilbert...

There are some predictable moments, such as Dan's date with an ugly duckling who has turned into a beautiful swan, his daughter's first big drive, and a few other examples, but Dan in Real Life always seems to know just the right ways to overcome inherent story clichés with surprising grace and affability.

Maybe after puberty, a child will become like that ugly duckling who turned into an elegant swan.

Valerie Sawyer is just one of the many wretched comedians and among a bunch of noisy ducklings who have lost touch with reality and will do anything to protect the Mahama status quo and their long pockets.

Played out on a single screen, you control a cat that moves along grid lines collecting eggs, which hatch into a train of ducklings who follow you around.

Some Oregon firefighters saved the day for two little ducklings who found themselves in a tight spot.

Here's a great web chat video hosted by HuffPost Live about the sad fate of rabbits, chicks, and ducklings who are bought as Easter presents.

Played out on a single screen, you control a cat that moves along grid lines collecting eggs, which hatch into a train of ducklings who follow you around.

Not exact matches

It's like the difference between people who like paying a premium for an already renovated home vs. those willing to use some elbow grease to remodel an ugly duckling.

«I'm not sure what the policy is on duckling onesies, but I think we're ready,» said Duckworth, who gave birth 10 days ago.

Page one of the news in my own Lake Wobegon this week carries a breathless report about a four - year - old boy at the tractor supply store who tried to talk his father into purchasing a duckling: «Word on the decision was not available at press time.»

The ugly duckling serenades are panderings left up to beaver - tailed hunters who shoot in randomness and without much of an aim.

Chet Simmons, 54, the peripatetic former TV sports executive (ABC, NBC and ESPN) who was named USFL commissioner last summer, says, «When people ask me what's wrong with the league, I say, «Well, it's not My Fair Lady but it's not «The Ugly Duckling» either.»

An emphatic, comprehensive and an overwhelming display of attacking intent seen Bolton record their biggest league win under manager Owen Coyle, who has transformer the Trotters from being one of the top - flight's ugly ducklings into a beautiful swan.

This feat surprised University of Oxford researchers, who initially doubted that ducklings could grasp complex concepts such as «same» and «different».

The feat surprised the researchers, who were initially sceptical about whether the ducklings could grasp such complex concepts as «same» and «different».

I was a bit of an ugly duckling, and only recently blossomed into a more stylish version of the girl who used to wear hoodies and had no idea how to blow out her hair.

Former ugly duckling Lauren Urasek, 26, who identifies as a feminist, said she responded to.

She added: «You always end up reading stories about actresses who say they were the ugly duckling in school.

At school, he does his best to hold his own with his other «loser» friends — Abby «The Ugly Duckling» Mallard (Joan Cusack), a pig named Runt of the Litter (Steve Zahn), and «Fish Out of Water» (Dan Molina) who travels around with a water - filled diver's helmet over his head.

This typical Ugly Duckling story opens on Zack Siler (Freddie Prinze Jr.), the most popular guy in school, and Taylor Vaughan (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) who (you guessed it) is the most popular girl.

Lest you think director Paul Feig and writers Wiig and Annie Mumolo, who has a cameo as a prescient airline passenger, have stinted on story and strung together a series of sketches, you'll be glad to hear there's a plot here as well that will bring to mind «My Best Friend's Wedding» and half a dozen Renee Zellweger films about ugly ducklings that long to be seen for their inner beauty.

Duck Duck Goose (PG for rude humor and mild action) Animated parable about a bachelor goose (Jim Gaffigan) who matures enough to serve as a surrogate father to a couple of ducklings (Lance Lim and Zendaya) he accidentally separates from their flock.

With our pint - sized protagonist wary of how the townsfolk will respond to his second extraordinary discovery, he enlists the help of his schoolmates, a colorful band of eccentrics which include the obese, neurotic pig Runt of the Litter (Steve Zahn), the self - explanatorily named Fish Out of Water, and Abby «Ugly Duckling» Mallard (Joan Cusack), a bucktoothed duck who holds some sage advice and a crush for Chicken Little.

Certainly a great deal of credit must go to the buyers who love these ugly duckling machines that so often age into swans of endurance.

An awkward «ugly duckling» who struggled with shyness and self - consciousness throughout her life becomes the conscience of the nation.

Cuckoo is no ugly duckling, though; he's not interested in becoming a swan, just in finding a friend who will understand him.

Fans of Robert McCloskey's classic book Make Way for Ducklings will delight in the sly humor of Ellen Yeoman's new picture book featuring two ducks who are just trying to muddle their way through one of their great challenges — figuring out how to be a duck.

A merciless killer on the hunt... An innocent child in his sights... A woman driven to the edge to stop him... Iris Johansen, New York Times bestselling author of The Face of Deception and The Ugly Duckling, returns with the most daring, terrifying, and nerve - shattering novel of her career as she takes us inside the twisted mind of a psychopath... and the heart of a woman who refuses to let him win.

Fascinating is too mild a word for Wullschlager's life of the great Danish fairy - tale writer, who came out of more impoverished circumstances than did any other literary titan, retained peasantlike gaucheness and servility throughout his life, and whose neuroses and repressed bisexuality influenced his stories as much as his ugly - duckling success.

The Velveteen Rabbit Beatrix Potter's A Tale of Two Bad Mice The Three Little Pigs How the Leopard Got his Spots by Rudyard Kipling The Three Bill Goats Gruff Johnny Appleseed The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen How the Camel Get His Hump by Rudyard Kipling Jack and the Beanstalk Goldilocks Pecos Bill Rip Van Winkle Rumpelstiltskin The Elephant's Child by Rudyard Kipling John Henry How the Rhinocerous Got His Skin Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby The Night Before Christmas Anansi Red Riding Hood Tom Thumb Noah and the Ark The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Emperor's New Clothes Paul Bunyan Pinocchio Annie Oakley Davy Crocket Parables That Jesus Told Aladdin Beatrix Potter's Tales of Mr. Jeremy Fisher Mose the Fireman The Bremen Town Musicians Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester The Emperor and the Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen Princess Scargo and the Birthday Pumpkin The Boy Who Drew Cats The Firebird Follow the Drinking Gord The Tiger and the Brahmin Peachboy The Monkey People Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Steadfast Tin Soldier Squanto and the First Thanksgiving The Fisherman and his Wife Stormalong

• Thank you to the gentlemen of Engine 72 who rescued the baby ducklings from the storm drain at Conway and Lake Margaret.

Interspecies friendships are some of the most heartwarming stories available on the Internet — from a cat who cares for ducklings to a BFF bond between a fox and hound.

Today, 16 healthy wood ducklings, admitted yesterday by an animal control officer who witnessed their mother getting hit by a car, were driven by a volunteer to a licensed rehabilitator for further care.