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  • For appetizers I got the rillettes d'oie, which is mashed up meat usually pork, goose, or duck - I got goose.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Etienne 2006

  • For appetizers I got the rillettes d'oie, which is mashed up meat usually pork, goose, or duck - I got goose.

    Au Pied de Fouet Etienne 2006

  • You're the one who always posts with photos and oie charts and all those great graphics.

    Things they don't tell you about this author deal 2008

  • Juvenal derided the idea of married eunuchs and yet almost all of these neutrals have wives with whom they practise the manifold plaisirs de la petite oie (masturbation, tribadism, irrumation, tete-beche, feuille-de-rose, etc.), till they induce the venereal orgasm.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Pendant ce temps il avoit achet� une oie pour nous deux.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The translation is marred by an archaic prose style and by inaccuracies; “oie” means goose, not duck, and garlic comes in cloves, not sprigs; but it is the only English translation of any French cookbook from before the 1650s.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • The translation is marred by an archaic prose style and by inaccuracies; “oie” means goose, not duck, and garlic comes in cloves, not sprigs; but it is the only English translation of any French cookbook from before the 1650s.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • So also his _oie d 'ammoros_ is metaphorical, the best known standing' alone '.

    Poetics. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1911

  • Nightman, an evil spirit who haunts the mountains at night predicting tempests and the doom of ships, the _dooinney-oie_ of the Manx, akin to the _banshee_ of the Irish.

    The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Hall Caine 1892

  • It was said, too, that it should perish through a goose (_oie_), and as the word "Huss" means a goose in Bohemian _patois_, it was said afterward that the writings of Huss, or more truly, perhaps, the work of the goose-quill, had fulfilled the prophecy in undermining and finally subverting the order.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) John [Editor] Rudd 1885

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