duck's-head

Updated: May 15, 2025

"I tell you, I've been obliged to humiliate myself cruelly" Clavering said. "Look here, sir look here, at these pawn-tickets! Fancy a Member of Parliament and an old English Baronet, by Gad! obliged to put a drawing-room clock and a buhl inkstand up the spout; and a gold duck's-head paper-holder, that I dare say cost my wife five pound, for which they'd only give me fifteen-and-six!

William Makepeace Thackeray - The History of Pendennis