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Usage examples of goose.

The leaves are acrid and pungent, being ungrateful to cattle, and even rejected by geese.

Rooms at the Skein of Geese were given infuriatingly anserine names rather than mere utilitarian numbers.

Titus headed for the kitchen and some minutes later crept across the reception area on his way upstairs, carrying a large ashet on which lay the carcass of the goose.

The bathroom floor was littered with shards of shattered ashet and the walls were awash with grease from the exploded goose.

The Carbon Goose avionics had an excellent inertial navigation system, but it was hardly designed with this kind of stunt in mind.

The man with all the pots and pans on his bicycle, the nun eating the baguette as she trundles along, the old woman shooing the geese, the businessman in his car eating a cake and attempting to look important.

He ate blackberries along the hedges, minded the geese with a long switch, went haymaking during harvest, ran about in the woods, played hop-scotch under the church porch on rainy days, and at great fetes begged the beadle to let him toll the bells, that he might hang all his weight on the long rope and feel himself borne upward by it in its swing.

We other hunters wore the hunting gear of woodcraft, namely, skull caps of deer hide, surmounted by the feathers of the eagle, the heron, or the bittern, while here and there was a cap with the wing of the wild goose across the front.

Clovelly herrings and Torridge salmon, Exmoor mutton and Stow venison, stubble geese and woodcocks, curlew and snipe, hams of Hampshire, chitterlings of Taunton, and botargos of Cadiz, such as Pantagruel himself might have devoured.

That duck was the first of the kind we had ever seen, and many thought it was of the goose species, only with short bowly legs.

His voice sounded raspy and she shivered, the single word creating goose bumbs over her skin.

He found square log houses, caulked with moss, deer pounds, birchbark canoes and bows of sycamore with arrows feathered with goose quills.

It was a cool, glistening patch in the shade of old weeping willows, and forcing a way through the clumps of weeds, preening and splashing themselves, swam a couple of snow-white, red-beaked geese.

Nathaniel Cadman called for stewed mutton, and goose, and woodcocks, while all around him these coxcombs took out their tobacco-boxes and spat upon the rushes.

Knowing that the note had been left by Trevor Dobson sent goose bumps racing over arms.