"Gossoon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mamy's blissed cook book along," observed the other, with one of his broad grins. "Didn't I say him studying it like a gossoon?" ...
— Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise - or, The Dash for Dixie • Louis Arundel
... remember its personality, and drop the public actor in the private individual. The occasion was when it had to put its head out of a loose-box to listen to the singing of a serio-comic song by a lady, dressed as a "gossoon." For a few minutes the talented brute made a pretence of eating some property foliage, and then, catching sight of the audience, it deliberately counted the house! I regret to add that, in spite of the valuable support ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, August 16, 1890 • Various
... and things went on in the old way with the Blake family. Mike had sprouted out into a fine gossoon of a boy, and exercised his errant disposition by running after the gentlemen when they went out shooting, and helping the keepers to carry the game. One day, a gentleman who was shooting in the neighbourhood called at his father's cabin, and asked for the little ...
— The Bushman - Life in a New Country • Edward Wilson Landor
... woman with a white swelling; then came an individual who had nothing at all the matter with him, and was only a poor unfortunate, wandering about the world; then came a far cake, {22} a dark man, who was led about by a gossoon; after him a simpley, and after the simpleton somebody else as much or more unfortunate. And as the afflicted people arrived and placed themselves by the side of the door and said 'Ave Mary,' or 'In the name of God,' or crossed their arms, or looked down upon the ground, each according ...
— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow |
