"Goosey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unpublished folk-lore and legends of the different provinces. The result, of which we have as yet only the first volume, is this remarkable book. Bad cruel Nils is transformed into an elf, and on the back of a goosey-gander, Thumbietot, as he is now called, visits distant regions, and learns kindness ...
— A Mother's List of Books for Children • Gertrude Weld Arnold
... this string come hobbling and limping along, he laughed so that he was almost bent double. Then he bawled out, "Surely this is a new flock of geese the Princess is going to have—Ah, here is the gander that toddles in front. Goosey! goosey! goosey!" he called, and with that he threw his hands about as though he were ...
— East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon • Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen
... 'Goosey!' whispered his mother, 'getting seepy? Is the sandman throwing sand in your eyes? Old Sandman at it? Sh—' ... ...
— The Grim Smile of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett
... "Goosey—it's only because I'm so happy, happy, happy! Why, Bertram, if it weren't for that Overflow Annex I believe ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... neck she had! not too long and thin, for that looks goosey; nor too short and thick, for that gives a clumsy appearance to the figure; but betwixt and between, and perfection always lies there, just midway between extremes. But her bust—oh! the like never was seen in Slickville, ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton |
