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As he spoke he bobbed and dipped like a dabchick or little grebe.

The dabchick, a slender bird, haunts the pond here too, diving even more quickly than the moorhen.

She was a pretty girl herself, in the florid, barmaid style, but as different a creature to Lilian Strange as a plump dabchick to an Arctic tern.

He thought of a dabchick that hides so cleverly no one can put it up— then, suddenly, is there, close at hand.

The place was nested in woods and water, like a dabchick's nest, yet for all that comfortable and fair to see with its lawns and greenery set about it.