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Did a flock of wild-duck come over from the sea with whistling wings, he did not so much get under the over-hanging grass as be there. Did a "gaggle" of wild-geese go by high over, clamoring like hounds, he went out like a blown candle.
One such speech would have been the ruin of a young Squire at the court. How would you have said it, Nigel?" "Surely, fair sir, it should be a nye of pheasants." "Good, Nigel a nye of pheasants, even as it is a gaggle of geese or a badling of ducks, a fall of woodcock or a wisp of snipe. But a covey of pheasants! What sort of talk is that?
All that remained was the action necessary to deliver Helena and her aunt back to the usual scenes of their lives, to make their losses as light as possible, to take my own losses, and so close the books of my life. "There they come!" said Jean Lafitte, pointing to a vast gaggle of clamoring wild geese coming in from the bay. "Right over our point, Jimmy! Gee!
Just outside the parish boundary are two old houses of brick in the style of the seventeenth century; they used to be known as Stamford Brook Manor House, but they have no authentic history. Starch Green Road branches off from the Goldhawk Road opposite Ravenscourt Park; this road, running up into the Askew Road, was formerly known by the still more extraordinary name of Gaggle Goose Green.
Almost I felt that in another moment I should screech out when a breath of sea air caught the skirt of the cloud, and rolled the bulk of it up and away over the house-tops. Then, at once, was revealed to me the cause and object of all this gaggle, and confusion, and outcry.
"He's cut his wind-pipe and all he can do is gaggle!" cried Mr. Hicks, excitedly, and made a frenzied attack on the door that strained the lock to the utmost. If the noise he made was any criterion it was judged that Pinkey's head must be nearly severed from his body which made the resistance he displayed all the more remarkable.
We should say, he urges, "for large flocks of wild fowl, of swans, a whiteness, of geese, a gaggle, of brent, a gang, of duck, a team or a plump, of widgeon, a trip, of snipes, a wisp, of larks, an exaltation. The young of grouse are cheepers, of quail, squeakers, of wild duck, flappers." And yet, careless of these proprieties, Young America goes "gunning" to good purpose. So with all games.
"The brant-geese can't be far off," he remarked presently. "It's a pretty big gaggle and I expect some of the fat gray-lag are feeding with them." Jake looked at the water. "If you want a shot, I guess you'll go on; but if I'd been alone, I'd have started home some time since. The tide's rising fast." "We have a quarter of an hour yet," said Jim. "Anyhow, we'll shove on for the next bend."
If Claire opened it, the gaggle of Illiterate clerks in the doorway would see, and speedily spread the news, that the daughter of the arch-foe of Literacy was herself able to read. Maybe Latterman hadn't really intended his employer to die. Maybe this was the situation he had really intended to contrive. Chester Pelton couldn't be allowed to die.
It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia, normally as genial a bird as ever encouraged a gaggle of hounds to get their noses down to it, lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them. "Well?" she said. In answer to this, all that Gussie could produce was a sort of strangled hiccough. "Well?" Aunt Dahlia's face grew darker.
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