Word: pheasant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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While the eye was pleased and the fancy charmed with all this, the ear heard many words and perhaps missed more. Those that it heard most readily were the speeches of Miss Adams as Chantecler and of Miss Victor as the Golden Pheasant, both speaking in a curiously labored and mannered diction. Others of the birds and animals were occasionally comprehensible; and the Blackbird, through the mouth of Mr. Leuers and the Dog through that of Mr. Trader, actually gave character and tang to their speeches. Sometimes there was wit but very seldom poetry in what they said. Rostand...