Swanship

He might have been drowned, along with fat Basil, that arrogant merchant, when the swanship broke apart. Indeed, he thought, in all of his wanderings since his birth in the Carthaginian hills, he had rarely been far from death.

"That's what I feel," replied Jasper, relieved, then chuckled to see the sleek, bewhiskered head of a seal pop out of the water by the swanship.

"A flight towards swanship, certainly." "Full swanship," said the girl. "I won't have him for a swan yet in my aviary; he must first grow other and finer feathers."

The biography bears the ever-accompanying character of historical writings, with this aim: the obscuring of unpleasant episodes, the promotion of all geese to swanship. The people of the West are particularly sensitive to criticism.

He is a dingy duck who would assume swanship, a crow who would strut as a peacock, an alley cat who would pass himself off as a lion. Imagining himself gifted above all of us perfected craftsmen, he has the effrontery to range ...