The best that had been found so far was a nanny-goat with her kid. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
The rest I left behind: basin, axe, machete, nanny-goat and the other tools for work. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Brazil: Bolivia expels Brazilian citizens] Reference
One evening the old woman was astonished to find that her very best nanny-goat returned without a drop of milk. From Wordnik.com. [The Brown Fairy Book] Reference
At length, in the afternoon, the old woman noticed this particular nanny-goat stealing off by herself away from the herd and she at once went after her. From Wordnik.com. [The Brown Fairy Book] Reference
Then there were three horses in the stable, and two cows, and hens and chickens, and a bearded nanny-goat, besides a little pink-eyed rabbit, who darted about the lawn, with a blue ribbon around his snowy neck. From Wordnik.com. [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference
Scrub the wife every day, teach the nanny-goat how to lay. From Wordnik.com. [The Rest of the Day's Your Own] Reference
Just thin Dorsey's nanny-goat that died next year put her head through th 'dure. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen] Reference
Donald, she said, wanted to have a 'hakkise'; so we bought a nanny-goat from Ludwig. From Wordnik.com. [Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899] Reference
MacBride's nanny-goat haggis was a hideous failure, and my boat's crew, to whom it was handed over, with many strong expressions about. From Wordnik.com. [Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899] Reference
This one was a nanny-goat, and it answered to the name of Nanny with an intelligence that was otherwise wholly employed in making trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells] Reference
From under the stable-door came the acrid smell of the nanny-goat; while the little pig, stretched upon his back, snorted near an empty porringer. From Wordnik.com. [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference
She now jumped out of bed, flew to her mother; with her arms round her neck, and pulling her by the beard, said, "Good morrow, my own sweet nanny-goat of a mother.". From Wordnik.com. [Andersen's Fairy Tales] Reference
These hides of the nanny-goat (to give them the name by which they were known to the peasantry) covered his legs and thighs, and masked all appearance of human shape. From Wordnik.com. [The Chouans] Reference
"Oh, captain, oh!" gasped poor Jem, "I am choked -- I am dead -- I am poisoned -- why, I'm full of water; bring this other beggar to my tent, and we will take a nanny-goat together.". From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
The truth was that old Gavard had told the others one evening that the "old nanny-goat" who came to play the spy upon them gorged herself with the filth which the Bonapartist clique tossed away. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat and the Thin] Reference
There is even a little Shintoist altar, before which Madame Prune has not been able to restrain her feelings, and before which she has fallen down and chanted her prayers in her bleating old nanny-goat voice. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Chrysantheme] Reference
Salter's balance, the "New York Observer," the bow and arrows, a Nuremberg nanny-goat, Rose's watering-pot, and the magnetic fishes, which gravely circled round and round them slowly and made the petty zodiac of their petty world. From Wordnik.com. [The Brick Moon, and Other Stories] Reference
Two peasant women, hard and brutalized in appearance, with dirty faces, two "dry-nurses," who well deserve the name, are seated on mats, each with an infant in her arms and a big nanny-goat in front of her, offering its udder with legs parted. From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob] Reference
Moreover, all the animals lived together; the rabbits ran about with the fowls, the nanny-goat would take a footbath in the midst of the ducks; the geese, the turkeys, the guinea-fowls, and the pigeons all fraternised in the company of three cats. From Wordnik.com. [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference
But it always did get my nanny-goat. From Wordnik.com. [Sleepin' at the Foot of the Bed] Reference
Phoebe rode a nanny-goat 13. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Mother Goose] Reference
They made him a coat of an old nanny-goat. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors] Reference
Sweet milk from a nanny-goat in a blue cup. From Wordnik.com. [The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
(beard) same like ole nanny-goat!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
Isn’t he a nanny-goat.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Getting of Wisdom] Reference
"Here, look, you old nanny-goat!". From Wordnik.com. [The Chouans] Reference
Billy-goat, nanny-goat; buck-rabbit, doe-rabbit; cock-sparrow, hen-sparrow. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
Then there was an absurd procession of the woolly sheep, a china cow, a pair of india-rubbers, a lobster Haliburton had chosen to send, a wooden lion, the wax doll, a Salter's balance, the "New York Observer," the bow and arrows, a Nuremberg nanny-goat, Rose's watering-pot, and the magnetic fishes, which gravely circled round and round them slowly and made the petty zodiac of their petty world. From Wordnik.com. [The Brick Moon, and Other Stories] Reference
The company having echoed the request in chorus, Moessard took back his proof and commenced to read in a loud voice, "The Bethlehem Society and Mr. Bernard Jansoulet," a long dithyramb in favour of artificial lactation, written from notes made by Jenkins, which were recognisable through certain fine phrases much affected by the Irishman, such as "the long martyrology of childhood," "the sordid traffic in the breast," "the beneficent nanny-goat as foster-mother," and finishing, after a pompous description of the splendid establishment at Nanterre, with a eulogy of Jenkins and a glorification of Jansoulet: "O Bernard Jansoulet, benefactor of childhood!". From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob] Reference
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