goose-meat

Updated: May 12, 2025

Let us pray that our Phoenix may not fall into the clutches of the De Sautys, to be made goose-meat of; rather may they themselves be utterly cast out, into the land of giants that are hideous to look upon, and have but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead, into the land of folk of foul stature and of cursed kind, that have no heads, and whose eyes be in their shoulders, into the isle of those that go upon their hands and feet, like beasts, and that are all furred and feathered, or into the country of the people who have but one leg, the foot of which is so large that it shades all the rest of the body from the sun, when they lie down on their backs to rest at noonday.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859