Goats

Examples

• We generally use goats' milk; and, 'gad, do you know, I've got to prefer it! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Neolithic man had domesticated cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Have you goats? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The balance of the population are asleep within doors, or abroad tending goats in the plains and on the hill-sides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In regard to sheep and goats I can form no decided opinion. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Plenty of it up in the mountain yonder, as the goats are very fond of it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Even the scattering groups of armed shepherds we met the afternoon before, tending their flocks of long-haired goats, were wanting here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Close to it was a stream, and on its banks a great herd of curious-looking Syrian goats and sheep were gratefully eating gravel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The lake-dwellers, on the other hand, had, in addition to the dog, which was of a medium-sized breed, oxen, goats, and sheep. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The two of them came scrambling down the rock like goats. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Parchment manufactured from the skins of young calves, kids, lambs, sheep, and goats, was an early rival of papyrus, and was known and used in Europe before papyrus was there introduced. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There is also a process called tawing, which is employed chiefly in the preparation of the skins of sheep, lambs, goats and kids. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The children took the cows and goats out to graze, and brought them in at night before the wolves and bears came prowling. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Just then, there emerged from a near copse two goats and a little kid, by the mother's side; they began to browze the herbage of the hill. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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