63 examples of wild-goose in sentences

" "You can please me by acting like a human being and not getting me home on wild-goose chases like this.

Would anything take place, or was it only a wild-goose chase after all?

" "The trouble was," continued Godfrey, "that I didn't look for him so early in the day, and so he was able to send me on a wild-goose chase after a sensation that didn't exist.

"One would have thought he'd have kept away from court after his wild-goose chase to Scotland and piling up expenses, but not him!

Besides it was cold, and this was a wild-goose chase which meant a chilled hide and no gain.

The Professor, Ajax, and Uncle Jake were riding to San Lorenzo upon a wild-goose chase.

Had she not herself watched a hundred times at the rabbit's form, the fox's runway, the deer path, the wild-goose nest?

An hour before noon Marshall Allerdyke entrusted his cousin's body to the care of certain kinsfolk who had come over from Bradford to take charge of it; by noon he and Fullaway were slipping out of Hull on their way to Edinburghto search for a witness, who, if and when they found her, might be able to tell themwhat? "Seems something like a wild-goose chase," said Allerdyke as the train steamed on across country towards York and the North.

"But I don't see why," he said after an interval, "you had to go off on a wild-goose chase thisaway.

"What does she want here?" "She came alone, poor little thing," he answered, "and on a wild-goose chase.

" "Even," Phineas Duge answered, "although I allowed my niece to run away from home and come over here on a wild-goose chase.

This collection, which is referred to as the First Folio throughout the present edition, contained all the authors' previously unpublished plays (34) except The Wild-Goose Chase, which, at the date of the Folio, was supposed to be lost.

It looked as if the whole wild-goose-flock had travelled past.

The old organist whose death had brought these two younkers on their wild-goose chase was Dietrich Buxtehude, the famous man whom Johann Sebastian Bach walked fifty miles on foot to hear, and whose compositions he studied and profited from.

Gliding swiftly homewards along the now brilliantly lit boulevards, I realize for the first time that mine has been but a wild-goose chase after all; that, if India is to be reached by land, it is not viâ Merv and Cábul, but by way of Persia and Baluchistán.

I am neither a philosopher nor a poet, to set out upon a wild-goose chase of making myself a different man from what you find me.

I helped him out of his awkwardness in the best way, by appearing not to observe it, and going straight on, I said: "Those revivals of interest in a subject happen to me often; one book suggests another, and often sends me back a wild-goose chase over an interval of twenty years.

The wild-goose storm.

I guess we've come on a wild-goose chase, Ronicky, hunting for a girl named Smith that lives on the bank of the East River!"

" My idea was to send her on a wild-goose chase, and while the Wild Rose was away I thought it out.

ARRAM Another wild-goose chase to the other end of the valley? RADA No.

The Baron recommends the perusal of this little book, if only to understand the full meaning of the old proverbial expression "Going on a wild-goose chase."

But he persisted in treating the adventure as a wild-goose chase.

"Let us start on our wild-goose chase.

I had spent my last shilling, and there I was trapesing across the island on a wild-goose chase with my reaping-hook and my fiddle; and my poor little Grace, that Ithat I" Mary's hand went a moment to his other shoulder, and she murmured through her tears, "You have got me.

63 examples of  wild-goose  in sentences