Which preposition to use with goose

of Occurrences 18%

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."

on Occurrences 17%

Do you suppose I would sit here like a goose on a gridiron and let you hold my foot if it didn't hurt?

in Occurrences 17%

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.

with Occurrences 14%

Season a fat goose with salt and pepper, and rub well with vinegar.

for Occurrences 10%

But I gave away the goose for a fowl. WIFE.

to Occurrences 8%

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.

at Occurrences 6%

" "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.

by Occurrences 5%

He sees you take a goose by the crown.

into Occurrences 4%

Clean and cut a fat goose into pieces; season with salt, pepper and ginger.

behind Occurrences 2%

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.

from Occurrences 2%

"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.

under Occurrences 2%

The next morning Dummerly carried off the goose under his arm, and took no heed of the three girls, but went out with them sticking fast behind; and wherever he journeyed, the three were obliged to follow, whether they wished or not, as fast as their legs could carry them.

as Occurrences 2%

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.

over Occurrences 2%

"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.

without Occurrences 1%

But when the eagle took his punishment from the wild goose without a protest, there arose from the great bird throng around them a perfect storm of taunts and gibes.

amidst Occurrences 1%

36. 'He gabbles like a goose amidst the swan-like quire.

before Occurrences 1%

Be careful to serve the goose before the breast falls, or its appearance will be spoiled by coming flattened to table.

between Occurrences 1%

With a few wing-strokes he was over the stone pile; but then, there lay no young gray goose between the stones.

like Occurrences 1%

'What was a goose like?' 'It was a thing like a butterfly, only larger, and it kept its toes always spread out, with a skin stretched between.' 'Leally?

off Occurrences 1%

Buffon says that the introduction of the Virginia turkey into Europe drove the goose off the tables of all civilized peoples.]

about Occurrences 1%

So I never seed my grandmother and I don't know any more about my grandfather than a goose about a band box.

Which preposition to use with  goose