billy-goats

Instead, they have a friendly drink or two while discussing how likely it is that the Large Hadron Collider will find the Higgs boson, or why little pigs and billy-goats gruff always come in threes.

Why I'm going to the Discworld convention 2010

So long as there are still billy-goats and guys like Steve Bartman in Chicago, October will remain, once again, "time for Da Bears" on the Northside of the windy city.

Pelosi Warns Clintonites: No "Scorched Earth" Approach 2009

They are like billy-goats on a young plantation; they do mischief everywhere.

An Enemy of the People 2008

They are like billy-goats on a young plantation; they do mischief everywhere.

An Enemy of the People 2008

They stood twice as tall as the wild goats that we knew from the Nile valley, and some of the old billy-goats carried such a mass of curling horn that they seemed as monstrous as some fabulous beast.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

'Oh! yes, I sec him down there among the billy-goats; let's go and pick him up, and then for mine host of the Green Bough.'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various

And because the Wine-God was supposed to live in the vineyards, amidst a merry mob of Satyrs (strange creatures who were half man and half goat), the crowd that joined the procession used to wear goat-skins and to hee-haw like real billy-goats.

The Story of Mankind 1921

There the billy-goats got so fat they were scarce able to walk home again; and if the fat hasn't fallen off them, why they're still fat; and so, --

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

Of course, the rich children are going to say that they're pushing little kids, but they've got to learn to push and to shove and to butt right in where they're not wanted if they intend to herd with the real angora billy-goats.

Old Gorgon Graham Lorimer, George H 1903

Anything is good to boys and billy-goats, but edjicated insides is sniffy, they tell me.

Miss Gibbie Gault Kate Langley Bosher 1898