Sentences with phrase «of the geese as»

as he follows the tracks of the skunk in the January snow; wondering where the skunk is beading and why; speculating on the different meanings of a winter thaw for the mouse whose snow burrow has collapsed and the owl who has just made dinner on the mouse; trying to understand the honking of the geese as they circle the pond; and wondering what the world must look like to a muskrat eye - deep in the swamp.

Not exact matches

The Geese will be on the ground too, as «members of the Goose family (will) be zipping around Park City sporting Goose,» the blog says.

The explosion of «free money» gooses demand briefly, but then debt, even at low interest rates, never declines; and as another bust inevitably follows this latest debt - fueled boom, then the debt becomes increasingly burdensome as income and wealth both plummet.

But while a wide assortment of creatures classified as «exotic» make wonderful pets — in addition to the ones previously mentioned, an exotic menagerie could include gerbils and even rats to geckos, iguanas, nonvenomous snakes, hedgehogs, fennec foxes and geese — some exotic animals do not.

(The user count no longer includes SMS Fast Followers, users who add Twitter via text - message outside of the U.S.; It is a group Twitter was criticized for including in past user totals as a way to goose their numbers.)

Pope Benedict XVI himself has said that an «industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.»

Nobody can assess the mental qualities of a dog without having once possessed the love of one, and the same thing applies to many other intelligent socially living animals, such as ravens, jackdaws, large parrots, wild geese and monkeys.

In the days before Christmas, when I lived there, Moscow took on the mythical characteristics of the East, as old women wrapped in black took up station on street corners, selling fresh - killed geese raised in snowy clearings.

The muffled whoosh of the vacuum as it cleans up powdered sugar after the girls made «goose poop» cookies (Russian Tea Cakes).

There was green alligators and long - necked geese Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born The loveliest of all was the unicorn

One couple told of standing together high on a hill in November listening in silence to the far - away honking of wild geese as they made a jagged V lumbering across the sky.

There has never been anything half as lovely written about waterfowl of the family Anatidae as Lancelot's words about seeing «geese on the islands — long smoke lines of them singing like hounds in the cold streak of morning» as he sails to the Grail island.

As we moved on, the cows followed us nonchalantly behind us, every pair of eyes were on us, on our movements... gave me the goose bumps like they were seizing the chance to pounce on us unsuspectingly.

As the aspen turn gold and the robins re-gather and the first flights of southbound geese murmur overhead during the night, another farming season, too, draws to close.

The Bacardi brand portfolio comprises more than 200 brands and labels, including BACARDÍ ® rum, the world's best - selling and most - awarded rum, as well as the world's most - awarded spirit; GREY GOOSE ® vodka, the world's leading super-premium vodka; DEWAR»S ® Blended Scotch whisky, the world's most - awarded blended Scotch and the number - one selling premium blended Scotch whisky in the United States; BOMBAY SAPPHIRE ® gin, the top - valued premium gin in the world; MARTINI ® vermouth and sparkling wines, the world's leading vermouth and the world's favorite Italian sparkling wines; CAZADORES ® 100 % blue agave tequila, one of the most popular premium tequilas in Mexico and the United States; and other leading and emerging brands including WILLIAM LAWSON»S ®, the fastest - growing global Scotch whisky brand; ERISTOFF ® vodka, one of the fastest - growing vodka brands in the world; and ST - GERMAIN ®, a super-premium elderflower liqueur.

Prior to his role within Customer Marketing, Tom was VP - Brand Managing Director of BOMBAY SAPPHIRE and MARTINI & ROSSI for North America, responsible for brand strategy, activity planning and management of business performance, as well as Global Vice President for GREY GOOSE.

Sure, it may not be as much of a showstopper as a crown roast of pork or an elegant roast goose, but when prepared properly, a pot roast will be far more tender, delicate, and memorable than any of these typical centerpieces.

The Bacardi brand portfolio includes more than 200 brands and labels including BACARDI ® rum, the world's best - selling and most - awarded rum, as well as the world ¹ s most - awarded spirit; GREY GOOSE ® vodka, the world's leading super premium vodka; DEWAR»S ® Blended Scotch whisky, the world's most awarded blended Scotch and the number - one selling premium blended Scotch whisky in the United States; BOMBAY SAPPHIRE ® gin, the top - valued premium gin in the world; MARTINI ® vermouth and sparkling wines, the world's leading vermouth and the world's favorite Italian sparkling wines; CAZADORES ® 100 % blue agave tequila, one of the most popular premium tequilas in Mexico and the United States; and other leading and emerging brands, most of which are sold globally.

The GREY GOOSE High Five cocktail that served as the signature drink of the 2015 ESPY Awards.

Beyond that top four, LSU is No. 5 and ahead of a Florida team it beat by two spots; Georgia is No. 6 and just.04 points ahead of No. 7 Florida; Ohio State follows those three one - loss SEC teams as the highest - ranked unbeaten outside the top four; Oregon State and Oklahoma fall out of the top 10; Louisville can't even get past South Carolina despite an L column goose egg; and Arizona and UCLA both show up again in the final spots of the top 25.

They call her Heather - Feather, and she floats on the currents of the intrafamilial competition just as lightly as a tuft of goose down.

As I write this, a flock of geese is returning north in a flying chevron.

Communities such as Palatine and Streamwood, which have been struggling with goose droppings on playing fields, decided to make use of the free demonstration of FlightControl.

Coyotes are part of our ecosystem and play a vital role in controlling smaller populations such as rodents, squirrels, mice and even Canada geese.

He was laid to rest on August 10 of that year at the Geese Park, now known as Asomdwee Park, close to the Osu Castle in Accra.

Once and for all: The «rumor» that Chelsea Clinton might not be getting married in Rhinebeck as some sort of elaborate ruse to send us all on a wild goose chase as she weds on, say, Martha's Vineyard, is simply not true.

By the time he settled for Ahmadu Alli, as his «garrison commander» into the 2007 «do - or - die» election, the PDP goose was cooked, though its members were too full of the delicious gravy of power to notice a thing.

The Lagos State Attorney General, as naive as ever, has no idea that he is being used, that he is on a wild goose chase, that he is helping to shield and protect the real perpertrators of the crime and that he seeks to destroy the legacy and name of an innocent man and Church.

A lawn filled with geese and a skate park, which was tested by Tony Hawk prior to its unveiling, also opened as part of the revamped Hudson River Park space.

«In the spirit of equality and the saying that «what is good for the goose is also good for the gander», the Earned Allowances as agreed by SSANU, NAAT and NASU with the Federal Government in 2009 should be approved by the University Governing Council.

As Jean Baptiste Colbert put it: «The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.&raquAs Jean Baptiste Colbert put it: «The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.&raquas to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.»

Mayor Bloomberg blasted Albany leaders yesterday for trying «to kill the golden goose here» by pushing a tax that would drive hedge funds out of the state — as he...

However, top - down input (in the form of the intercountry species management plan) was also deemed essential for ensuring that the focus remained on goose conservation, as opposed to farmer reimbursement.

Here she describes how the modest barnacle — which 16th - century scholars believed came from plants known as «Barnakle Trees» and themselves concealed miniature geese called barnacle geese — tricked even 18th - century father of systematic classification Carl Linnaeus.

But what's good for the goose isn't necessarily good for the gander: As more of these large birds overwinter in North American cities, the chance for conflicts with humans is taking off.

Julia Clarke, an NSF - funded paleontologist at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), described the fossil as belonging to a new species related to today's ducks and geese, and gave it the name Vegavis iaai.

Increased energy consumption of larger flapping birds, such as cranes, geese, and swans that migrate between Japan and Siberia or travel similar distances in other parts of the world, limits their migration to shorter distances.

Listed as of November • Ventura Marsh milk vetch (California) • White abalone (California) * • Ohlone tiger beetle (California) • Spalding's catchfly (Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington) • Scaleshell mussel (Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, S. Dakota) • Holmgren milk vetch and Shivwitz milk vetch (Arizona, Utah) Delisted • Aleutian Canada goose (Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington) emergency listings being processed now • Tumbling Creek cavesnail (Missouri) • Pygmy rabbit (Washington) • Carson wandering skipper (California, Nevada)(* listed by National Marine Fisheries Service)

Experts believe their analysis of conflicts involving large grazing birds — such as geese and cranes — across Europe could have a positive impact across the globe.

In recent decades, there has been a rapid increase in the number of large grazing birds — such as geese and cranes — across Europe.

If enhanced availability of maize leads to even more wintering geese in Denmark, this may cause conflicts with agriculture as the geese may turn to other crops, including grass fields in spring and winter crops.

The cackling geese came in right as the ice was starting to melt but the number of nesting sites was reduced by 38 percent from last year due to the ice coverage.

They tested how good the geese were at coping with exercise in reduced oxygen environments by simulating the conditions of Mount Everest in a clear box and then getting the birds to run as fast as possible on a treadmill inside the box.

Plus, Charles Bishop discusses the «roller - coaster» flight strategy of bar - headed geese as they migrate across the Himalayas between their breeding and wintering grounds.

Why go back into the cage?!? Because you know that ultimately the time you do, the date of your permanent release from captivity, is dependent on your ability to behave while captive and be the goose that lays the golden egg, otherwise known as interpretable, publishable results.

Flotillas of geese shepherding unruly goslings launch themselves into ponds as we approach.

Described this week in the journal Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, the technology is based on an electronic device known as a coplanar capacitor and detects goose bumps by virtue of a simple, linear relation between the deformation of the sensor and the decrease of the capacitance.

That may not be so far away — a team of researchers at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea has developed a flexible, wearable 20 mm x 20 mm polymer sensor that can directly measure the degree and occurrence on the skin of goose bumps (technically known as «piloerection»), which is caused by sudden changes in body temperature or emotional states.

They provide control on populations of small mammals and birds, such as beaver, geese and wild turkeys, and can help to provide stability in the composition and numbers of general wildlife populations (Voigt and Berg 1999, Gompper 2002).

As journalist Ed Yong has reported, psychologists often goose up the statistical significance of their research to get it published, while failed replication studies regularly get rejected by psychology journals.