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Definition of Goatlings
1. goatling [n] - See also: goatling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goatlings
Literary usage of Goatlings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"But if some man, mure hardy than the rest, Should dare attack these goatlings in
their nest; At once they rise with impotence of rage, Whet their small ..."
2. A History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time by Friedrich Ueberweg, George Sylvester Morris, Henry Boynton Smith, Noah Porter, Vincenzo Botta (1891)
"... and any interpretation of - Catharsis," which Includes in its conception the
notion of " purification," "refinement,'1 "emancipation from tbe goatlings ..."
3. An English Miscellany: Presented to Dr. Furnivall in Honour of His Seventy by William Paton Ker, Frederick James Furnivall, Arthur Sampson Napier, Walter William Skeat (1901)
"Partes meae sunt quatuor—Dame Grammar saith, saith she, In Martian of the
goatlings (full quaintly writeth he !), Litterae, Litteratura, Litteratus ..."
4. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1850)
"... that all the milk they could supply was barely sufficient to satisfy the
cravings of their goatlings, whose claims were, of course, preferred to ours. ..."
5. Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes: Comprising Interesting by Richard Miller Devens (1865)
"goatlings also retain their sign of the three squirrels, and Strahan, Paul &
Co., the sign of the golden anchor. The three gilt balls so commonly hung out ..."
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