Which preposition to use with geese
Vielpanser is the goose of the Nile, and wherever this goose is represented on the walls of the temples in colours, the resemblance may be clearly traced."
There is never a time my cart cometh from London, but the collier bringeth a goose in his sack, and that, with the giblets thereof, is at your service.
Do you suppose I would sit here like a goose on a gridiron and let you hold my foot if it didn't hurt?
The bushy mulberry-trees the geese in rows Seek eager and to rest around them close With rustling loud, as disappointment grows.
Season a fat goose with salt and pepper, and rub well with vinegar.
But I gave away the goose for a fowl. WIFE.
As a side issue the blameless baronet had a little goose to wife, who went to Dampier's Maidenhead bungalow and fell into the river.
The park also had starback tortoises, monitor lizards, ducks and geese of various kinds, monkeys and other small animals.
" "Thou pratest like an ass," said Robin, "for I could send this shaft clean through thy proud heart before a curtal friar could say grace over a roast goose at Michaelmastide.
The wild geese on the bushy jujube-trees Attempt to settle and are ill at ease; Suh-suh their wings go flapping in the breeze.
In the sky above them, wild geese with flashing white wings honked away toward the south, and a meadow lark, that jolly fellow who comes early and stays late, on a red-leafed haw-tree poured out his little heart in melody.
He sees you take a goose by the crown.
Clean and cut a fat goose into pieces; season with salt, pepper and ginger.
Provision was easily to be had, for they killed, almost every day, a hundred geese to each ship, by pelting them with stones.
Your lordship, with your flock of geese about you, would probably be frolic and gamesome.
But no one had such a contempt for tame geese as Akka and her flock, and gladly would he have shown them that he was their equal.
I could go back to the wild geese before sunrise.
At the proper time, he sold the young geese for the largest sum he had ever seen in his life; for, though to have kept some of them might have proved an additional source of profit, he knew that he had only accommodation for one to hatch.
I gave little heed to the mention of this known Circumstance, till, being the other day in those Quarters, I passed by a decrepit old Fellow with a Pole in his Hand, who just then was bawling out, Half an Hour after one a-Clock, and immediately a dirty Goose behind him made her Response, Quack, Quack.
Beckwith, his editor, says, "Probably no other reason can be given for this custom, but that Michaelmas Day was a great festival, and geese at that time were most plentiful."
" The boy led the geese into the cowshed, which was rather large, and placed them in an empty manger, where they fell asleep instantly.
After every meal the feeding place must be cleaned, for, while geese like a clean place, they never leave any place clean in which they have been.
If that lank-and-leather-jawed gentleman, with complexion bespeaking a temperament dry and adust, and who has long been sedulously occupied in feeling the edge of his fruit-knife with the ball of his thumbdo not commit suicide before September,Lavater must have been as great a goose as Gall.
"Now I'll take the goose from you anyway," cried he, and held on as hard as ever he could, but he hadn't strength enough to stop Smirre.
"What d'ye mean?" Before I could answer there came up a man carrying a shotgun in one hand, and a wild goose over his shoulder.