The last time he was in here I know the crowd was teasing him because his voice was in the gosling stage.
"Dixie Hart"
Will N. Harben
This morning a gosling from the old school-a Sophomore-came in and visited with me for a few minutes, on the strength of the fact that he knew my baby brother in high school.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
Yea they be more than so too: for by the common prouerbe, a woman will weepe for pitie to see a gosling goe barefoote.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham