Still, aside from one or two places, the rain sheeted off us as we set off across the drive past the round fountain, which in daylight I could see featured the bronze figure of a goose-herd. ❋ King, Laurie R. (1998)
This is more probable than a "jingling allusion ... to goose-herd or gozzard," which Dilke suggests. ❋ George Chapman (N/A)
Before me was my father goose-herd; and he taught me the windings of the journey to the city, and the best resting-places, and the ways of geese, and the meaning of their cries, and what pleaseth them and serveth flesh and feather, and how they should be driven. ❋ William Canton (1909)
The goose-herd grandson was driving a flock of geese across the green bowl below the cabin. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)
The shiftless, lanky goose-herd came forth in time, and lazily drove his scattered flock off into the lower glen. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)
And all this time the goose-herd grandson of the Witch was dancing his wild, uncanny solo in the thick of the brew, an exalted grin on his face, strange cries of delight breaking from his lips: a horrid spectacle that fascinated the observers. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)
"I hope you will pardon me for not being a better goose-herd," said ❋ James Baldwin (1883)
Maximilian sat down on a stone, and laughed at the thought of being a goose-herd. ❋ James Baldwin (1883)
So the goose-herd's daughter held the Princess, and the old goose-herd stripped the ram's hide off from her. ❋ Howard Pyle (1882)
Then the old goose-herd drove her geese away, and the goose-girl waited for the coming of the Prince. ❋ Howard Pyle (1882)
Now as the Princess sat there, there came along the old goose-herd of the palace, and with her came her daughter; for they were driving the royal geese home again from where they had been eating grass. ❋ Howard Pyle (1882)
But the old goose-herd told her daughter to mix a sleeping powder with the Prince's wine at supper, for, if the real Princess were to come at all, she would come that night. ❋ Howard Pyle (1882)
Sister Anne is represented, and so are the rescuing brothers, the latter in the person of the heroine's old friend and playmate, Tönnis the goose-herd. ❋ William Ralston Shedden Ralston (1858)
But the good animals, who understand nothing of these things, they cackle and grunt, and gabble at me, as if I were nothing but a common goose-herd and by no means the sainted father of Christendom! ❋ Nathaniel Greene (1843)
The noble baron took no note of this, but as he gallopped past the little goose-herd, he reversed the whip he held in his hand, and in rough sport gave her such a push in the chest with the butt-end, that she fell backwards into the ditch. ❋ Alfred Walter Bayes (1840)
This same fool had been nothing but a poor goose-herd; and one day as he was on the road to Friedrichswald with his flock, my gracious lord rode up, and growing impatient at the geese running hither and thither in his path, bid the boy collect them together, or he would strike them all dead. ❋ Wilhelm Meinhold (1824)
"No one liveth there," said Gascoyne, "saving only some of the stable villains, and that half-witted goose-herd who flung stones at us yesterday when we mocked him down in the paddock. ❋ Unknown (1891)
Roadside] "Yes, my pretty little bird," said the old goose-herd, "thou wilt make a fine Princess!" ❋ Howard Pyle (1882)
