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"ref": "1902, Eleanor Gates, The biography of a prairie girl:",
"text": "Away they went, the colt in the lead and the pinto after, until they reached the bunch of cottonwoods far up the stream where the yanging wild geese had their nests.",
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"ref": "1957, Adelbert Ames, Chronicles from the Nineteenth Century: 1874-1899:",
"text": "Last night we were awakened by the barking of dogs and yanging of a goose, and investigated to find that the man had neglected to house the geese and the dogs were killing them.",
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"To make the cry of the wild goose."
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"(rare) To make the cry of the wild goose."
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"ref": "1867, Gail Hamilton, Wool-gathering, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 185:",
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