re-entring

Updated: May 9, 2025

I, who thought I had behav'd my self very honourably, told her the whole fight; and to end her grief for the loss of her bean, presented the goose: when I shew'd the goose, the old woman set up such an out-cry, that you wou'd have thought the geese were re-entring the place.

Petronius Arbiter - The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter