In our Franconian village the gooseherd was a little boy, vastly proud of his job. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Germany] Reference
Walking behind Lazaro, I think of John Clare once more, another consummate fieldworker, a farm laborer, gooseherd, egg finder, and nest lover. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
The gooseherd gloomily and suspiciously named a sum. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Five Towns] Reference
But, no; the gooseherd would not come at the princess's bidding. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Clock] Reference
'I'll tak' it, 'said the gooseherd, in a tone that closed on the bargain like a vice. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Five Towns] Reference
Well, yes; they were wanting a gooseherd, and if he liked the place he might have it. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Clock] Reference
"See," said they, "the princess has been giving the gooseherd the necklace from about her own throat.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Clock] Reference
Yet was she as lowly and simple of speech and demeanour as if she were a gooseherd of fourteen winters. From Wordnik.com. [The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale] Reference
'Sithee!' said the gooseherd in ruthless accents, 'I druv these' ere geese into this 'ere town this morning.'. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Five Towns] Reference
So the minister was called in, and the princess and the gooseherd were married then and there, and that was the end of the business. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Clock] Reference
"You are a very kind man, and I think you might be a good king; but if you were to try all your life, you would never be a good gooseherd.". From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Famous Stories Retold] Reference
So off she marched, with all of her maidens, to pay the gooseherd his price, though it was a sour face she made of it, and that is the truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Clock] Reference
The geese had luckily started for their day on the high pastures before the bad folk came; for in a German village there is always a gooseherd. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Germany] Reference
An orphan boy had been brought up in the household, and had served first as gooseherd, and then as page; but he was always known as "Goose-Tony.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country] Reference
The princess would like to have such a plaything, that she would; so she sent one of the maids out to ask whether the gooseherd had a mind to sell it. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Clock] Reference
As for the gooseherd he just tied the kerchief around his arm so that everybody might see it; and all the folks said, "Hi! that is the princess's kerchief.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Clock] Reference
The third day it was a new thing the gooseherd had, for he brought out a musical box with figures on it, dressed up, and looking for all the world like real little men and women. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Clock] Reference
The gooseherd received the purchase-money like an affront, but when Mr. Curtenty, full of private mirth, said, 'Chuck us your stick in,' he give him the stick, and smiled under reservation. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Five Towns] Reference
The gooseherd, a shabby middle-aged man, looked as though he had recently lost the Battle of Marathon, and was asking himself whether the path of his retreat might not lie through the bar-parlour of the Tiger. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Five Towns] Reference
I'd far rather be the son of his gooseherd, if I had the choosing. ". From Wordnik.com. [Seven Miles to Arden] Reference
And if thou wert gooseherd or shepherdess thou mightest easily have seen us. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Lovers] Reference
"Yes, yes," said the gooseherd, "it is as plain as reading and writing and the nose on your face that you are just fit for nothing at all!. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Clock] Reference
The china pitcher was never fit to send to the well, and it was a rainy day for me when I married such a left-handed wife; "that was what the gooseherd said. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Clock] Reference
'Business!' echoed the gooseherd. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Five Towns] Reference
The gooseherd faced him in silence. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Five Towns] Reference
They took him seriously as a gooseherd. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Five Towns] Reference
'Call this a market?' said the gooseherd. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Five Towns] Reference
The gooseherd winked. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Five Towns] Reference
205 gooseherd excuse. From Wordnik.com. [The Child's World Third Reader] Reference
Max, the gooseherd. ". From Wordnik.com. [Otto of the Silver Hand] Reference
I am the gooseherd. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Clock] Reference
She was her own housekeeper, chambermaid, cook, washerwoman, gooseherd, seamstress, nurse, and all the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana] Reference
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