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Example sentences for "goose chase"

  • VII A WILD-GOOSE CHASE 45 The important question, Typee or Happar?

  • Do you mean to tell me it was you who sent me on that wild-goose chase to London?

  • Constable Roberts turned swiftly upon his companion, and commenced a pent-up tirade against him for having fetched him out on this wild-goose chase.

  • But I'd like to lay hands on the man who sent me on that wild-goose chase.

  • It does seem rather a wild-goose chase, doesn't it?

  • I could not possibly pledge myself to enter upon such a wild-goose chase.

  • I have gone out of my way to help you, but, frankly, I think that yours is a wild-goose chase.

  • Your search after your parents I consider almost tantamount to a wild-goose chase; but still, as your happiness depends upon it, I suppose it must be carried on; but you must allow me time for reflection.

  • The father was exasperated and exclaimed, "Go and find me one sane man who will endorse your wild-goose chase and I will give my consent.

  • But he knew perfectly well that if any average person endorsed the plan his father would declare the man was insane, and the proof of it lay in the fact that he endorsed the wild-goose chase.

  • Obstinate=, an inhabitant of the City of Destruction, who advised Christian to return to his family, and not run on a wild-goose chase.

  • Reynolds smiled as he thrust the letter into his pocket, The editor called his trip north a "wild-goose chase.

  • Give up your present wild-goose chase, and come home.

  • Why do you wish me to undertake this wild-goose chase?

  • The editor would surely forgive him for going on what he called "a wild-goose chase," instead of searching for the missing Henry Redmond.

  • It will be a wild-goose chase," observed Mr. Brandon, who had called in.

  • Old Brandon called it from the first a wild-goose chase; but, go, the Squire would.

  • Mr. Brandon calls it to this hour a wild-goose chase: certainly it turned out a fruitless one.

  • Wild-goose chase or not, I shall go," said the Pater, hotly.

  • Hereafter, if any one attempts to send you on a wild-goose chase, to hunt such a cow, tell them that no such animal ever walked this earth.

  • If he suspected that we were following a wild-goose chase he would turn south again this very hour.

  • He is quite content that the cruise of the Aphrodite should be a wild-goose chase so long as the evidence of the papyrus is proved to be false.

  • Could it be that after all they had been on a wild-goose chase?

  • I wonder if we aren't on a wild-goose chase," said Roy.

  • But Captain Hardy was too loyal to his fellows, too resentful of Lieutenant Gavigan's remarks about them to indicate by word or act that he thought they had been 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.

  • She had no doubt but that it was the document which had been stolen, the document to recover which had brought her upon this wild-goose chase.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    close proximity; could discover; dine with; early stages; gentle birth; goose chase; great happiness; him now; hollow tone; its mother; judicial decision; means confined; mercantile pursuits; natural generation; once before; real religion; savings bank; second half; she might; she passed; tower hatch; trades union