Goose
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
a goose · white goose
in the texts
Odyssey
A farmyard goose seized by the eagle in the first omen.
As he was thus speaking a bird flew on his right hand - an eagle with a great white goose in its talons which it had carried off from the farm yard - and all the men and women were running after it and shouting.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Animal used in a proverbial figure accusing the court of searching for the wrong thing (a goose instead of a lost cow).
But, the court, instead of considering the precedents in relation to the concurrent right of taxation, have insisted at large upon those which relate to the constitutionality of banking, and adhered to the precedent of searching for a goose, when the thing lost was a cow.