A flock of wild geese called from overhead, and frightened little Sheldon very much.
The swift-winged geese were traveling much faster than the robins, and soon they were far ahead of Robert Robin and his family.
Those are wild geese and they will not hurt you, child!
She poked the turtles and the frogs And thought it was fine fun, But when the geese poked out their necks At her, she had to run.
Gregory Gimcrack Grinned and Gaped at the Geese and Ganders Exposed for sale in the Eastern Market, just above Cole's Book Arcade.
Now the farmer's wife had need of a wench to wash the dishes and to attend to the geese and the pigs, and seeing so dirty a vagrant offered to engage her.
She minded the sheep, and penned them up when it was necessary, and she took the geese out to feed with such intelligence that it seemed as if she had never done anything else.
There were two geese floating quietly upon the surface of this water, near where the sheep were lying upon the shore.
These geese floated quietly upon the water, like vessels riding at anchor.
These directions will apply to tamegeese as well as ducks.
For geese and ducks the stuffing may be made the same as for turkey, with the addition of a few slices of onion chopped fine.
Large flocks of geese and ducks were seen upon the quiet waters of the sound.
While approaching the low Portsmouth shore of the sound, flocks of Canada geese flew within pistol-shot of my head.
Geese were honking and ducks were quacking, while the deep booming of guns was heard every few minutes.
Heady, of Swansboro, informed me that the ducks and geese he killed in one winter supplied him with one hundred pounds of selected feathers.
The black geesewere breaking their long journey to the marshes by the Arctic Sea; they would rest for a few days in the prairie sloos and then push on again.
Winter was already advancing across the wastes of Northern Canada and the geese and ducks were flying south.
The ducks and geesehad gone, and red lilies began to sway above the rolling waves of grass.
Everything was beautiful, well-ordered, and tranquil, but he knew if he stayed there long he would hear the cry of the black geese and the clang of flung-down rails ring through the soporific calm.
The Geese are the same with the wild geese of France.
All my work, since thou askest of my work, hath been the tending and rearing of geese and driving them to market.
In the rear of the great multitude of geese came a churl, tall and young, and comely enough for all his embrowning in the sun and wind, and his unkempt hair and rude dress.
He quite cheered up the owner of the geese by his willingness and activity.
As the corn dropped along the road, the geese ran to pick the kernels up.
Andy gathered from what the man said that he and his family had gone into the speculation of raising geese that season.
I was foolish to ever dream I could drive up to nearly one thousand geese across country sixty miles.
Say, mister, suppose I figure out a way to get your geese the rest of the way to market quite safely and comfortably, and help drive them the balance of the distance, what will you do for me?
Soon he had the whole line of geese following the wagon.
Three fat geese have I also, fit for the spit, and four hens.
The quarter of mutton, done to a turn, hung on its spit, and on either side of it sputtered the geese and the fat hens, brown and savory, and smelling delicious.
High and far away came the honking cry of wild geese in flight; travelers of the upper air-paths, winging their way southward.
A pair of Chinese geese led the way of this feathered community.
Killed two Mallards; the Geese and Ducks are abundant beyond description.
Great flocks of Geese and Pelicans; killed two of the latter.
We have passed a good number of Wild Geese with goslings; the Geesewere shot at, notwithstanding my remonstrances on account of the young, but fortunately all escaped.
Saw three more Deer, another Wolf, two Swans, several Pelicans, and abundance of Geese and Ducks.
They saw two large flocks of Geese making their way westward.
Abundance of Geese and White Pelicans; many Sandhill Cranes.
Afterwards one of the trappers shot at two Geese with two young ones.
In the official report of his trip in 1900, Mr. Tyrrell states:—“Many broods of geese were observed on the low grassy banks of the Thelon.
In the spring of 1903 I had taken an Indian and his family with me on to this river to shoot duck and geese, and before a fortnight was out we had killed sixty-three geese and a great quantity of duck.
In the adjacent ponds also were some swans and geese in a moulting state, and in the marshes some curlews and plover; plenty of hawkes-eyes (i.
In the interior the game birds are all very scarce, the fall hunt for ducks and geese being confined to the shores of the bay.
Caribou roam in herds, and are very good eating, while seals, ducks, ptarmigan, geese and swans abound throughout the districts round about.
Later in the season great numbers of moulting geese were met with, and thirty or forty of them were knocked over with sticks for supplying our kettles.
In many places I have seen geese in such numbers that they could be killed by hundreds with sticks.
Ranged according to their families, the grey, or bustard, the white and the laughing geese came past in quick succession, vying in swiftness, as if anxious to escape from the wintry horrors of the north.
The incubation period of domestic geese is 30 days, and their period of growth is also short.
However, it is not difficult to show that there is no absolute relation between size and longevity, since parrots, ravens, and geese live much longer than many mammals, and than some much larger birds.
She said again: 'The fowls are asleep, the geese are asleep, Only my godmother does not sleep.
Your geese are sure to be good weather-prophets, and I notice that they are dressing their feathers and diving comfortably in the little duck-pond.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "geese" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
