anserine

• “To my knowledge,'anserine' is a perfectly respectable, albeit uncommon, adjective in our language.”

  Uncommon Valor: Protecting Humanity for Flock's Sake

• “And that one was the victim of anserine necrophilia.”

  It's A Bird's Life!

• “It is all very easy for you, middle-aged reader, sitting over this page in the broad daylight, to call me by all manner of asinine and anserine unchristian names, because I had these fancies running through my head.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859

• “The gaff is blown, the anserine guard gives tongue with might and main.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 6, 1892

• “We have "progressed" from the manly independence and fierce patriotism of our forebears to a namby-pamby foreign policy that compels our citizens abroad to seek protection of the consuls of other countries from the spirit that made our flag respected in every land and honored on every sea, to the anserine cackle of "jingoism" whenever an American manifests a love of country or professes a national pride.”

  The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12

• “You are the state's hired hand, Charlie boy -- duly employed to remain at Austin and display your anserine ignorance in the governor's office.”

  The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10

• “Uncle Sam would have supposed this simian hubbub and anserine to-do meant nothing less than a new epocha for the universe, it being undecided whether it should be auriferous or argentiferous -- an age of gold or a cycle of silver.”

  The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.

• “Since then he had respected her person, but to the day of his death he had cursed her for anserine stupidity.”

  The Belovéd Vagabond

• “One of their most charming bits of classic art is the famous miniature statue of the Gooseman; and the real name of the great Gutenberg, who, by his invention of printing, did more than any other mortal to make it easy for the human race to acquire the anserine mental habits, and the anserine moral characteristics, was Gänsfleisch!”

  Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View

• “Perhaps the village lights embarrassed them, or perhaps the constant changes in the face of the country, from the clearings then going on, introduced into the landscape features not according with the ideal map handed down in the anserine family, and thus deranged its traditional geography.”

  Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)

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