"Ye-es," I said hesitatingly, though I was palpitating with joy, "I fancy we should like gooseberry tart (here a bright idea entered my mind) and perhaps in case my aunt doesn't care for the gooseberry tart, you might bring a lemon squash, please."英文原著 · 《A Cathedral Courtship》
Poor Miss Amelia was accustomed to being called a goose. She knew, in fact, that she was rather a goose, and that it was left to geese to do a great many disagreeable things. It was a somewhat embarrassing thing to go into the midst of a room full of delighted children, and tell the giver of the feast that she had suddenly been transformed into a little beggar, and must go upstairs and put on an old black frock which was too small for her. But the thing must be done. This was evidently not the time when questions might be asked.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
Sait.--A Mongolian governor. Salga.--A sand partridge. Sayn.--"Good day!" "Good morning!" "Good evening!" All right; good. Taiga.--A Siberian word for forest. Taimen.--A species of big trout, reaching 120 pounds. Ta Lama.--Literally: "the great priest," but it means now "a doctor of medicine."
Tashur.--A strong bamboo stick. Turpan.--The red wild goose or Lama-goose. Tzagan.--White.英文原著 · 《Beasts, Men and Gods》
"By the mule-back schedule," said Keogh, "it's five days down from San Mateo. We've got plenty of time to set our outposts. There's only three places on the coast where they can hope to sail from--here and Solitas and Alazan. They're the only points we'll have to guard. It's as easy as a chess problem--fox to play, and mate in three moves. Oh, goosey, goosey, gander, whither do you wander? By the blessing of the literary telegraph the boodle of this benighted fatherland shall be preserved to the honest political party that is seeking to overthrow it."英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
"There were many brave ones on the raft, and the Otter tried to reach the world by diving; and the Beaver, and the Gray Goose, and the Gray Goose's wife; but all died in trying, and all were given a new life by OLD- man. Things were bad and getting worse. Everybody was cross, and all wondered what OLD-man would do next, when somebody laughed.英文原著 · 《Indian Why Stories》
Ah, but they should not cross the stage yet; it is more effective if they remain longer there. Brangane sings finely; she warns them that the doom is near."
He gave a little giggle, which reminded Michael of his father. "Brangane is playing gooseberry, as you say in England," he said. "A big gooseberry, is she not? Ah, bravo! bravo! Wunderschon! Yes, enter King Mark from his hunting.英文原著 · 《Michael》