goat
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Others who get my goat are antsy, crabby, pigheaded old buzzards, coots, and goats (no spring chickens) who are stubborn as mules and who grouse, bug, badger, and hound you like droning, waspish gadflies who stir up a hornets 'nest.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2 - When the goat was about halfway down the steps, Pe-atep pounced, long knife in hand. — Aerie
- The goat was as thankful to be going as a goat could be. — The Pillars of Creation
- Milking the goat was as far as he was likely to go in the direction of -women's work. — A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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COOPER: How can you assure us this goat is a direct descendent of the original goat?
— CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2003 - The eye of a goat is a living semi-precious stone half way between amber and arylide, and the crickets are the fluorescent green of the youngest shoots of grass in the original Eden. — Captain Corelli's Mandolin
- And also for the reason that the vessel was swift, for among these people the goat is the animal that means swiftness to them. — Eaters Of The Dead
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The goat, at the far end of the lot, looked toward them and made his queer, bleating noise Afterward Bunny Brown and his sister Sue learned that the goat was a very kind one, and used to playing with children.
— Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue - The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. — Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
- "_The lust of the goat is the bounty of God_." — The Satanic Verses