Take a ___ at (look)

Usage examples of gander.

Well, one night I am sitting on the bank steps with Big Nig, the crap shooter, and a guy by the name of Skyrocket, who is nobody much, when all of a sudden I notice three guys standing on the sidewalk taking a very good long gander at me, and who are these guys but certain characters from Brooklyn by the name of Harry the Horse, and Spanish John and Little Isadore, and they are very hard characters indeed.

Salamander was slow as a gander, The mare could have beat him the length of the straight, And old Manumission was out of condition, And most of the others were running off weight.

But you that have roved about in the country of Boetia, have lost your valiante captaine Lamathus, whose life I more regarded than all the treasure which you have brought : and therfore the memory of him shall bee renowned for ever amongst the most noble kings and valiant captains : but you accustome when you goe abroad, like men with ganders hearts to creepe through every corner and hole for every trifle.

And with what quill did the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Ganders formally indite his circulars?

Then the old goose and the gander and all the little goslings started slowly along the road for home, saying cross words in Goose talk all the way!

But he told Gately he should get a gander of the other guys, the Nucks in Polynesian-wear.

Gentlemen: have a gander at these restaurant exhibits of the Sino-epithetic calendrical scheme.

If I should say that ganders grow also to be gelded, I suppose that some will laugh me to scorn, neither have I tasted at any time of suc tivits, king-fishers, buntings, turtles (white or grey), linnets, bullfinches, goldfinches, washtails, cherrycrackers, yellowhammers, fieldfares, etc.

Meanwhile the bull-dog, the black-and-tan terrier, Alick's sheep-dog, and the gander hissing at a safe distance from the pony's heels carried out the idea of Mrs.

John's by charter flight at dawn - weather permitting - and a further supply would be flown from Montreal to Gander.

A second message told me that suitable syringes existed only at the Bronx Zoo and at the Vancouver Aquarium, and that both institutions had been asked to air express their syringes to Gander, from which point another charter flight would ferry them to Burgeo in the morning.

It was then he noticed the drip-drop exiting from the block, and when the garage attendant took a gander at that he muttered "Ai, Chi-hua-hua!

Since he and Thunder had often, in garrison times past, engaged in the cavalry's sporting contests of gander pulling, he was even better at the voltige than Roozeboom had been.

Someday, after the war, it'll make a book: one of a million war memoirs that will clog libraries from Novosibirsk to Gander to Sequim to Batavia.

The reason stood well over six foot in height, and was going to be shown, in vulgar parlance, that what was sauce for the goose could be sauce for the gander as well.