goose-like

It has a nasal quality I find unbearable, a sort of goose-like honking tone to it.

More on Critique Hal Duncan 2009

A goose-like bird fossil has been found in the UK; it had a 16-foot wingspan and a beak full of teeth.

Archive 2008-09-01 2008

Old man Genovese clucked his tongue, goose-like when he saw me crumple onto the porch.

Wife Beater T 2010

Five feet tall and weighing about seventy-five pounds, their long, brown, twin-shafted feathers looking rather like shaggy fur, they approached me within twenty-five yards, carelessly picking at grass with their goose-like beaks, and then calmly strolled out of sight.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

She did not even look at me; the daughter of the house shook her head in refusal, the prince turned to me, and, probably incited by the goose-like expression of my face, made me a deep bow.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

Mrs. Haines glared at her out of goose-like eyes, gobbling, “Please, Mrs. Giles Oliver, do me the kindness to recognize my existence ....” which she was forced to do, rising at last from her chair, in her faded dressing-gown, with the pigtails falling over each shoulder.

Between the Acts 2004

The lapse of a little time brought us to the end of it, and some dozen lobsters began flapping their goose-like tails in our faces.

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

He peered at Campion as if he were a stranger encountered in the street whom he thought he recognised, but on discovering he did not he swung past him and confronted Miss Evadne, saying in a queer honking voice which sounded goose-like and unreliable, as if he seldom used it:

More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

He peered at Campion as if he were a stranger encountered in the street whom he thought he recognised, but on discovering he did not he swung past him and confronted Miss Evadne, saying in a queer honking voice which sounded goose-like and unreliable, as if he seldom used it:

More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

For miles around not a drop of water may be found; it seems as if every pool and lake were solid to the bottom, and yet, when we see a large bird, with goose-like body, long neck and long, pointed beak, flying like a bullet of steel through the sky, we may be sure that there is open water to the northward, for a loon never makes a mistake.

The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919