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Life of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone choose

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[UK] M. Elphinstone in Colebrooke Life of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone (1884) I 53: They have neither the comforts of a Bengal army, nor do they rough it like the Ducks. [footnote: A cant expression applied to the Bombay service.].
at duck, n.3
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