How To Use Goose In A Sentence

  • We would have make it earlier, but I procrastinated with completed and sealed ballots sitting on my desk for a couple of days -- no good excuse, but the reminders to spare the GOTC callers (and ourselves) reminder calls goosed me into action. BlueOregon
  • Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata. Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
  • At one time food tended to be cooked in lard or goose fat, and this gave it a reputation for being heavy and hard to digest. Cheap Eats Guide to Europe 1994
  • To the rear of Old Hall is a large walled garden that has lawns and a variety of plants and shrubs, as well as strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, plum and apple trees.
  • The fruit of the fig is about as big as a rounceval pea, or very small gooseberry; and each of them, upon breaking off the stalk very close, produces one drop of a milky liquor, resembling the juice of our figs, of which the tree is indeed a species. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
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  • A curious and unwary fish would become a meal when the goosefish inhaled and quickly engulfed its prey.
  • Wilshere consoled her, rubbing her arm, feeling the goose flesh. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • I had shown the old-fashioned deadeyes instead of rigging screws and had drawn the wrong kind of gooseneck attaching the boom to the mast. Cumberland, Part 3: Acting It Out
  • However after learning Yang great wild goose this factory arms the security office staff status truly, the new hundred personnel depart low-spirited.
  • Jay snuggled back down into his goose down pillows and picked up a tennis ball to ideally throw at the ceiling, then he looked at Chris who was still fumbling with his words.
  • Body about the size of a common goose; bill short, vaulted, obtuse, two-thirds of which is covered by an expanded cere of a pale greenish-yellow colour, the tip of the bill being black, arcuated, and truncated. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • As big as a goose and with a six-foot wingspan, the southern giant petrel nests throughout the Antarctic continent (as well as on several subantarctic islands).
  • Frankly, she held her nose and said it stank like the henhouse when a mongoose has spoiled the eggs. HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
  • Soon the guard - about half a dozen soldiers and NCOs in all - marched out with an extremely rapid step and exaggerated movements; they came to a halt with a massive goose-step.
  • Taxpayers are paying for that - apparently, what is good for the goose is not good for the gander - but people who want to pay for their own hospitality venues are denied that right.
  • His clothes clung to his muscular frame and goosebumps ran over his entire body.
  • Canada Goose Inc. Canada Goose's Kensington parka in steel color, insulated with 625-fill-power white duck down and featuring a two-way adjustable, fleece-lined down hood with a removable coyote-fur ruff. Coolhunter
  • The potatoes are roasted in the finest goose fat. Times, Sunday Times
  • An elderly woman was standing behind him, frail and stooped, her thinning silver hair as light as goose down. AMAGANSETT
  • We replaced it with the gooseneck from the gaff of the storm trysail, and the second gooseneck broke short off inside fifteen minutes of use, and, mind you, it had been taken from the gaff of the storm trysail, upon which we would have depended in time of storm. Chapter 2
  • She dipped her goose-feather quill into a jade inkpot, drained the red ink along the side, and unhurriedly marked a circle around the black tent the eunuch had pointed out to her. Shadow Princess
  • But when my poor mother heard that I was committed, by word of honour, to a wild-goose chase, among the rebels, after that runagate Tom Faggus, she simply stared, and would not believe it. Lorna Doone
  • Another plant that is showing its leaves is goosegrass. Times, Sunday Times
  • Blindfolded, I don't believe I could have told, but from inspection I think it contained apple, gooseberry and blackcurrant.
  • They were well paid, as much as fourpence being given for a good cock-crower (in 'The Trial of Christ'), while the part of God was worth three and fourpence: no contemptible sums at a time when a quart of wine cost twopence and a goose threepence. The Growth of English Drama
  • Order the ‘Black and White Series’ and you'll get Baerii caviar served on blinis or toasts; ‘French Masterpiece’ is duck or goose foie gras served on toast.
  • I sought express instructions that I was to make this argument and the Commissioner recognises that sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
  • Despite its similarities to the Canada goose, the nene is a true Hawaiian down to its toes.
  • The mail-order range has now been extended to include beef, duck, lamb, chicken, pheasant and goose.
  • There were figs, walnuts, mulberries, apples, pears, damsons, gooseberries, elderberries, raspberries - and chickens, which we had inherited from the previous owners.
  • Perhaps her golden goose has had its day then. The Sun
  • I've burned one of the clogs, the animals are dead but the one goose mopes by the stagnant mare. WHITE LIES
  • Leopards, hyenas, jackals, sloth bears, cobras, pythons, mongooses and monitor lizards move silently through its forests.
  • A duck or a goose from Bunce?
  • Fascinated by toys and their miniature mechanisms, Ravel wrote his Mother Goose suite for two musical children as a four-hand duet.
  • Devil killer body, a large wavy golden hair shine, slender legs wearing a yellow goose miniskirts, show figure of the perfect.
  • The Park is an important breeding area for the pinkbacked pelican Pelecanus rufescens, white pelican P. onocrotalus, African fish-eagle Haliaeetus vocifer, Caspian tern Hydroprogne caspia, goliath heron Ardea goliath, rufous-bellied heron Butorides rufiventris, yellowbilled stork Mycteria ibis, pygmy goose Nettapus auritus, collared pratincole Glareola pratincola and greyrumped swallow Pseudohirondo griseopyga. Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa
  • He'll get away from it briefly when it's goose season in his native Nebraska or when the fish are biting somewhere.
  • Goose, duck, and turkey are typical holiday fare in the Netherlands.
  • Yet Goose calls on his experience and contacts to boost the real value of any promotional activity. Times, Sunday Times
  • The whilk Swedish feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the shrubs or lesser trees of ane forest, as the puissant pikes, arranged in battalia behind them, correspond to the tall pines thereof, yet, nevertheless, are not altogether so soft to encounter as the plumage of a goose. A Legend of Montrose
  • Devil killer body, a large wavy golden hair shine, slender legs wearing a yellow goose miniskirts, show figure of the perfect.
  • Never mind, a long-since abandoned unofficial page for the Magyar Borsodi League links straight to a Hungarian recipe for goose liver cooked in paprika - just the thing to keep your pecker up on a parky afternoon at Haladas Szombathely.
  • Produced with technocrat perfection, it presents the palate with a pleasing gooseberry and apple-like nose and a palate that vibrates with clean fruit flavours.
  • Montrose led him on a wild goose chase through the snow-covered mountains. The English Civil War: A People's History
  • Many birds love berries of barberry, beautyberry, cotoneaster, currant, elderberry, gooseberry, holly, mahonia, mountain ash, nandina, pyracantha, and strawberry tree (not all plants grow in every zone).
  • He threw the helm over, hard aport, the Snow Goose responding sluggishly. CORMORANT
  • There was something so disquietingly familiar about the place that I felt gooseflesh rise on my arms and legs.
  • The pilot goosed his craft.
  • The footwear is far from uniform, and it is entertaining to see a couple of 15 year old girls trying to goose-step in platform boots.
  • In Sweden you only work 40 hours a week and there isn't a lot to do, so we used to go picking blueberries, wild strawberries, blackberries and gooseberries in the forest near my house.
  • I still get goose bumps remembering the moment Crystal Serenity sailed into the sea ice. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mix the marinade ingredients and pour over the goose.
  • This week I present ways to goose the staying power in your notebook's battery, tips on batteries you use in handheld devices, and what to do when your batteries have gone south.
  • But search time can be reduced if anyone seeing a goose wearing a coloured collar with black letters can report it to the laboratory.
  • The elderflower has a musky scent that really lifts the gooseberries - try adding it to gooseberry fool too.
  • His sacred animals were the ram and the goose.
  • Jaguar's show car at the Frankfurt show: A low, fast-looking two-seat coupe called the CX-16 equipped with a six-cylinder engine with an electric booster to goose acceleration. Engine Makers' New Math
  • Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen. Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
  • Ballade" was also the name of a somewhat intricate French stanza form, employed by Gower and Chaucer, and recently reintroduced into English verse by Dobson, Lang, Goose, and others, along with the virelay, rondeau, triolet, etc. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
  • The bernicle, or brent goose, is interesting from the curious superstition which formerly prevailed respecting it, as it was supposed to have sprung from the shell called the barnacle or lepas, which adheres to the bottoms of ships, and which has a fringe of cirri projecting from between its valves bearing some faint resemblance to the feathers of a bird. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
  • Season and serve with the goose and roast potatoes. Times, Sunday Times
  • -- The _chakwâ_, male, and _chakwî_, female, is the ruddy goose or sheldrake, known to Europeans as the Brâhmanî duck, _Anas casarca_ or _Casarca rutila_. Tales of the Punjab
  • I pray for the swan goose, the moonlight and the spring breeze forthousands of times, wishing the swan goose can bring my miss toyou; the moonlight can convey my greeting to you ; the spring breeze can send my care to you!
  • This is still a low time for fruit lovers, but the first hard little gooseberries should be here by the very end of the month.
  • Wildgoose promptly falls in love with a fascinating damsel-errant, Julia Townsend; and the various adventures, religious, picaresque, and amatory, are embroiled and disembroiled with very fair skill in character and fairer still in narrative. The English Novel
  • Otherways in white broth, and with fruit, spinage, sweet herbs and gooseberries, _&c. The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
  • And yesterday, she had chided Helena for wasting a holiday and setting off on a wild-goose chase. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • Every duck, chicken and goose on the island had to be killed, and Webster considered it ‘a near miss for our species’: the strain could pass from animals to humans but wasn't communicable between humans themselves.
  • One by one, red-coated soldiers goose-stepped in.
  • Barney whirls on him and glares - eyes big as goose eggs, lips pursed and bloodless.
  • Sorry for the rant i just love this series and its like everyone is starting to be to loosy goosey with our movies! Twilight Lexicon » David Slade Gets Artistic
  • But American doctors whose patients run afoul of a duck, macaw, parrot, goose, turkey or chicken will be able to select from nine codes for each animal, notes George Alex, an official at the Advisory Board Co., a health-care research firm. Walked Into a Lamppost? Hurt While Crocheting? Help Is on the Way
  • Leftover roast duck, goose or rabbit, pulled off the bone and stewed slowly in a combination of its own (creamless) gravy, red wine and canned tomatoes makes for a luscious ragu to be tossed with wide noodles, such as pappardelle or tagliatelle. Elissa Altman: The Holiday Onslaught
  • To me, this may not be killing the Golden Goose - but it is close to a long-term strangling session. GraniteGrok
  • The goosefish is practically invisible lying flattened, with its darkly marbled skin matching the bottom color and the outline of its body obliterated by a fringe of branched skin flaps.
  • I had a fried goose egg for lunch.
  • Her hand caressed his neck, then her fingers stroked up through his hair in a way that caused a tingle to travel all the way down his spine, his skin breaking out in gooseflesh as he shuddered in reaction.
  • For the record I scoffed a tiny tub of blackcurrant so purple it sent my teeth mauve, and another of gooseberry and elderflower.
  • Her arms broke out in gooseflesh as droplets from the roof slid through the opening and splashed on her skin.
  • I still get goose bumps remembering the moment Crystal Serenity sailed into the sea ice. Times, Sunday Times
  • The goose species of the western Palearctic region provide good examples of migratory species that have been the subject of considerable research and conservation action [56]. Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic
  • In the foreground is the nene, or Hawaiian goose.
  • Frankly, I thought the mongoose was a made up mythical creature… until I saw one. Why did the mongoose cross the road?
  • Mildew in apples and gooseberries usually affects blossom and young shoots - cut off and destroy the affected shoots and blossom.
  • The portly princess had cooked her goose. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
  • The most interesting part was when the lecturer talked about a character called William Bunting, who used to catch wild adders to feed to the mongooses at London Zoo.
  • Each shopping trip is a wild goose chase.
  • The Mongoose Lemur (scientific name Lemur mongoz) is not a mongoose at all, but a prosimian primate, a species of monkey and native only to Madagascar.
  • It is a blind silly goose that comes to the fox’s sermon. 
  • In Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Harvesters" 1565, from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, tiny background figures can be seen throwing sticks at a tied-up goose in a game called squail. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
  • Is it any wonder that there are groups among the economic underclass who reckon that what's good for the goose is good for the gander?
  • Hard, I found, to hold back a tear, and the goose pimples were not from the cold because it was a hot day, even in the quire. Simon Hoggart's week: Keeping ahead of the rhinos
  • There are more than 1,500 kinds of plants in these forests, including 19 kinds of rare plants such as the thorned cyathea spinulosa, the Chinese double-fan fern, the Chinese goose-palm catalpa and the yinque tree.
  • The slow-moving two-toed sloths, tiny dwarf mongoose, South American acouchi and African rock hyrax are other unique features of the daytime exhibits.
  • Many families have vegetable gardens and grow apple trees, gooseberries and black currents.
  • Under the thick layers of Viyella shirt, lambswool sweater and ancient tweed jacket he could feel the tiptoe of goose flesh up his arms. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
  • It is best to defrost frozen goose slowly in the refrigerator for 1 to 2 days.
  • Beyond Mr Jefferson's high black hat, through those tangled dew-drops of flame, Mr Goosevort saw golden hair glide softly through the oasis of bodies gathered vaguely round the stage, Mr Umberto and Mrs. Jefferson laughed again together, and Mr Howle's mournful ululation could be heard adrift a lake of rabble... golden hair turning away and fluttering into the shadow of a winding stairway. Mr Goosevort
  • Adult workshops/public programs that relate to the Victorian era are offered through the year, including china painting, Battenberg lacemaking, beginning watercolors, paper quilling, and Christmas goosefeather trees.
  • Such a Materialist is a theroid idiot with the stamp of the goose upon him.
  • How do you imagine all that duck and goose skin was gleaned? Times, Sunday Times
  • Prune gooseberries and redcurrants if you haven't already done so.
  • +Third, we must accept the rule of universalizability, or what one might call the "sauce for the goose" rule. Chuck Gutenson: Re-Imagining Redemptive Violence
  • When I caught up to her I touched her arm and could feel the gooseflesh as she shook me loose.
  • He's such a nervous chap he wouldn't/couldn't say boo to a goose.
  • A divine justice is meted out; Dr. Grant, who begins by liking his goose tender, ends by bringing on “apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week”. The Common Reader
  • A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial. 
  • And then Santa arrived with his bag of Christmas gifts for everyone, courtesy of the Abbeyleix Goose Club draw.
  • He's so nervous he wouldn't say boo to a goose.
  • If Ontarians ever made the same gesture, it would prompt the Feds to finally realize that killing the goose that lays the golden egg for the whole country is the outcome of their disregardful tactics and myopic vision.
  • As we passed around the corner I reached out and goosed Michelle, but she was ready for it and returned the favor.
  • Shivering in the cool of the night, she wrapped her arms around her, running her hands along the goosebumps on her arms.
  • Instead of hecatombs of fat oxen sacrificed by the tribes of a wealthy city to their tutelar deity the emperor complains that he found only a single goose, provided at the expense of a priest, the pale and solitary in habitant of this decayed temple. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • It is a zesty wine with zing and zip, good acidity and a fantastic array of aromas, predominately passionfruit, asparagus, cut grass and gooseberry.
  • So why isn't rack of pork more popular, up there with goose and turkey as the third option for Christmas dinner?
  • Devil killer body, a large wavy golden hair shine, slender legs wearing a yellow goose miniskirts, show figure of the perfect.
  • We produce plums, gooseberries - really wonderful soft fruit.
  • For the judges, it's all about the "goosies" J.Lo's term for goosebumps — or maybe gooses, as Erica the randy bartender gets in a good squeeze of Tyler's gluteus maximus. Matt's TV Week in Review
  • I did the same, making no further advances to him, though, as I recalled how I hammered his body and head, and how he must have been pricked by falling into the gooseberry bush, I felt sorry, and if he had offered to shake hands I should have forgotten how grubby his always were, and held out mine at once. Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden
  • The menu is small but solid and offers diners the chance to enjoy a selection of home-style cooking from the Perigueux region of France, an area renowned for its truffles, duck, goose and cêpes mushrooms.
  • Derrick, a father-of-three with four grandchildren, grows tomatoes, cucumbers, gooseberries, aubergines and even melons in his greenhouse.
  • Skip the tacos and eat breakfast! mix ground goose with some ground pork, sage, pepper, salt, pan fry and have with eggs! the wife said "heck this would make good meatloaf" so we mixed in oats, egg, ground horseradish, chopped carrots (gotta get them veggies in), worchester and ketchup! Goose Tacos
  • Grilled steaks, chops, roast meats (such as browned, crisp goose, $21.95) and seafood are all served, but traditional entrées make up a good portion of the menu, and that's what drew my attention. JSOnline.com
  • No, he led me on a wild-goose chase.
  • Fruit trees such as apples, currants and gooseberries should do well and, to be more exotic, you could try nectarines and cherries.
  • The photographs might represent a wild goose chase after the random neuroses of an insecure young woman.
  • I had just come up to the house from Snow Goose, expecting that you had come back with him, when I saw Cartwright's car pull in. CORMORANT
  • How Siena's divided into districts and each has its special name for the race: eagle district, giraffe, caterpillar, goose. FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS
  • Allow to cool completely if you are going to use it to stuff the neck of the goose or turkey. The Sun
  • She started to regret her impulsiveness in joining a wild-goose obstacle chase.
  • Abundant goosefoot, some knotweed (both erect knotweed and other species), some wild rice, and seeds of various grasses and weeds were also recovered.
  • Elderflower cordial gives the gooseberries a delicate muscat flavour.
  • O, that’s a brave man! he writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble goose. Act III. Scene IV. As You Like It
  • A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial. 
  • Goosen only two shots off lead after wild round at British Open Golf News: Stories, and Upcoming Event Coverage
  • Light and fruity aromas of soft gooseberry with a whiff of crème fraiche deliver zippy flavours of light gooseberry and lemon before a crisp and dry, slightly minerally finish.
  • Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life? Sylvia Plath 
  • Gooseberries have such a short season, and I love to combine them with the oily fish.
  • A healthier option would be to swap goose fat or lard for olive oil. The Sun
  • We do have to ask in London whether we are in danger of killing the golden goose. Times, Sunday Times
  • The entrées were boiled pork and beef, roast beef, mutton chops, and goose, while side dishes included hominy, cabbage, potatoes, and fried tripe.
  • The two men walked away, Dr. Fell marching with his stiff step (almost like a goose) and Notus, with many a glance back at me across his shoulder. Orphans of Chaos
  • My view is that there was indeed an earlier system like this and that *a is rare because most instances of former *a had shifted to *o at a very late date in PIE's history, leaving behind a residue of instances of *a in words like *daḱru "teardrop" and *ǵʰans- "goose". The Great Pre-IE Centralization
  • Mammalian introductions have occurred periodically in this region and include species such as agouti (Dasyprocta agouti), fallow deer (Dama dama) to provide game, the indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) and the inadvertent importation of rats (Rattus rattus, R. norvegicus). Guadeloupe
  • Gooseberry bushes can be similarly pruned but take out some of the old shoots from the centre of the shrub to keep it open and to make it easier to pick the fruit from these very prickly customers.
  • My country is on the eastern side of Melville Island where people today hunt for magpie goose and go fishing for freshwater barramundi.
  • I pray for the swan goose, the moonlight and the spring breeze forthousands of times, wishing the swan goose can bring my miss toyou; the moonlight can convey my greeting to you ; the spring breeze can send my care to you!
  • Among waterfowl, the Canada Goose is the least loved, especially by golfers.
  • WAIT ... this isn't Iran, this is America where we covet the freedom of our vote and aren't expected to goose-step with the elected leader. Grassley to vote against Sotomayor
  • Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life? Sylvia Plath 
  • Steam the goose to render some of the fat.
  • For example, although the media had named John as a stabbing victim and published his photograph less than a year earlier, no one in Britain would ever be allowed to learn that he had tried to engineer his own execution that hot June day in Goose Green: "As far as the public in south Manchester are concerned there is at large … a crazed knifeman who murderously attacked a 14-year-old," said the newspaper lawyer. "U Want Me 2 Kill Him?"
  • What's good for the goose comes to mind. The Sun
  • Bull's Head stringy fowls, with lower extremities like wooden legs, sticking up out of the dish; of its cannibalic boiled mutton, gushing horribly among its capers when carved; of its little dishes of pastry --- roofs of spermaceti ointment, erected over half an apple or four gooseberries. The Uncommercial Traveller
  • The Nene (also called Hawaiian) goose is Hawaii's state bird and endemic to the islands.
  • Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. 
  • It was described by the Arctic explorer Richardson in the mid-19th century as ‘a small white root about the thickness of a goose quill, which had an agreeable nutty flavor’.
  • Seemingly knowing she was petrified, he removed his grasp, let his hand slide up her arm to tangle with her hair, and Linden felt gooseflesh prickle her skin.
  • With his free hand he was softly pushing back her hair, sending goosebumps scattering from Shiona's head to her toes.
  • He observes that the stanza "may be read as a nonsense-verse replacing some traditional bawdry which is represented by the rest of the song in the [Burns] MS. and MMC; but goose, hen and magpie are all low terms for a woman, and from the Nicht Owre
  • an unfeathered goose
  • The Talking Mongoose Case (event) (see all of The Talking Mongoose Case, no other writeups in this node) (event) by aneurin Everything2 New Writeups
  • Snip! snap! crunch! cranch! and off went the Grey Goose's head. The Wonder Clock
  • Just prior to the formal tour I led an unofficial tour of random colleagues from assorted units on a wild goose chase round the backstairs.
  • Or, even better, perhaps you already know the etymology of wayzgoose. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 4
  • Habitat is manipulated to increase goose numbers and therefore create the excuse that hunting is needed to control overpopulation.
  • Your children almost certainly won't care whether they're sleeping under goose down or those old-fashioned orange nylon sleeping bags I remember well from my own childhood.
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  • Others, such as cooking apples, raspberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants and gooseberries, have more pectin and set without any help.
  • They should beware of killing the golden goose. The Sun
  • And think not that the felicity of the heroes and demigods in the Elysian fields consisteth either in their asphodel, ambrosia, or nectar, as our old women here used to say; but in this, according to my judgment, that they wipe their tails with the neck of a goose, holding her head betwixt their legs, and such is the opinion of Master John of Scotland, alias Scotus. 2009 February « Anglican Samizdat
  • From this month you can buy direct their organic all-year-round storecupboard supplies along with seasonal delights like gooseberry confiture, tomato and basil jelly and summer garden piccalilli.
  • The boss may look a bit fierce, but in fact he wouldn't say " boo " to a goose.
  • The potatoes are roasted in the finest goose fat. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘Serves you right, you goose,’ she said, trying to read her magazine.
  • In contemporary times, nowhere is the difference between wild and farm-raised waterfowl more dramatically apparent than with goose.
  • Small amounts of sugar may be required to take away the sharpness from fruit purées such as gooseberry and rhubarb - but avoid adding sugar to food and drinks.
  • Instead of preying on the nocturnal rat, for instance, the diurnal mongoose turned its attention to native birds and reptiles, many of which appeared to decline in Caribbean and Hawaiian locales.
  • Place the gooseberries, elderflower cordial and sugar in a medium-sized pan, add enough water to cover the fruit then place on the stove and bring to the boil.
  • Goose and duck love this. Times, Sunday Times
  • I sucked in air, feeling goosebumps and tingles erupt all over my skin.
  • On land penguins also have a number of enemies which include leopards, caraculs, kelp gulls and mongooses.
  • In the Poultry section there were classes for a pair of pullets White Wyandotte hatched the previous year, cock and hen any breed and goose or gander any breed.
  • What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 
  • It is a silly goose that comes to the fox's sermon. 
  • Fish owls, jungle cats, civets (a carnivore related to the mongoose), and even house cats are reported to eat them.
  • I guess the name was changed as gooseberries are not a popular fruit these days, more's the pity.
  • What worked: With 800-fill goose down, the grade used in the priciest sleeping bags, the garment manages to be lighter, more compactable and somehow warmer than my original Patagonia down jacket which, incidentally, is still going strong after 25 years. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
  • Her race is run, her thread is spun, her goose is cooked, and any other trope you please; for what signifies all the white lead at the 'pothecary's compared to the warm brown of Maria's complexion and her long eyelashes! The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
  • That's why I'm pushing so hard to get side jobs now, while the goose is still cackling.
  • She started to regret her impulsiveness in joining a wild-goose obstacle chase.
  • [We have sent Mr. Griffin a copy of the entry for wayzgoose from the OED. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 4
  • He said: 'I had goose flesh with all the crowd chanting my name. The Sun
  • Woody plants including gooseberries, raspberries and even roses may suffer from dieback after their leaves wilt and shrivel, changing to brown.
  • Tip handfuls of pale, hard goosegogs into a stainless steel pan and sprinkle them generously with unrefined golden sugar and a few good shakes of water - just enough to stop the fruit sticking.
  • Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. 
  • Without a doubt, the cuisine centres around both the goose and the duck. The Wine Roads of France
  • Mix the marinade ingredients and pour over the goose.
  • All through that day of wonder, which included real roses that you could pick and smell, and real gooseberries that you could gather and eat, as well as picture-books, a clockwork bear, a musical box, and a doll's house almost as big as a small villa, an idea kept on hammering at the other side of a locked door in Dickie's mind, and when he was in bed it got the door open and came out and looked at him. Harding's Luck

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