Geese

Examples

• Well, you're not geese, you're swans--anything you like, only do, do leave Miss Sedley alone. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There are other species of geese, as I hear from Mr. Bartlett, in which the lamellae are less developed than in the common goose. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Their geese and turkeys I usually ate at a mouthful, and I confess they far exceed ours. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I should like to know who sold you the geese which you supplied to the Alpha. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He steered his geese with that stick as easily as another man would steer a yawl. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Now then, Mr. Cocksure, said the salesman, I thought that I was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is still one left in my shop. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He had taken a Chinese drawing of geese from the boudoir, and was copying it, with much skill and vividness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Livers of fat geese. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Beds be dear to fokes that don't keep geese, bain't they, Mister Fairway? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Sold out of geese, I see, continued Holmes, pointing at the bare slabs of marble. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Little goose girl, who kept a hundred fat geese in the field, said Amy, when Sallie's invention gave out. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• So she asked what she should use for new heads, since the old ones were lost, and all the geese opened their hundred mouths and screamed. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But you see, sir, them's not our geese. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Another sable warder (a carpenter, who had once eaten two geese for a wager) opened the door, and showed me into the best parlor. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I've had enough of you and your geese, he shouted. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• And then there was the goose-rancher--a fellow who drove a hundred geese before him about the city, and tried to sell them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Twenty-four geese at 7s. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• An impromptu circus, fox and geese, and an amicable game of croquet finished the afternoon. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• What can be plainer than that the webbed feet of ducks and geese are formed for swimming? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He put the end of his stick within six or eight inches of a stone wall, and made the geese march in single file between it and the wall. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I do feel like a swan among geese--I can't help it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You want to know what became of those geese? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I only said you were a couple of geese, Will Dobbin said, perceiving Miss Ann's pink eyes were beginning to moisten as usual. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Did I buy the geese off you? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Typist: Nathaniel