Sentence examples for flying goose from inspiring English sources

Dotted throughout the landscaped grounds are tidy white cottages with brick-red trim and window boxes of pansies and petunias, most with names like Canvasback, Pintail and Kingfisher, each emblazoned with the Tyler Place flying goose.

Viewers will delight in the flying goose whose wings are suitcases, the satirical use of washing machine wringers for mouths in a piece called "The Critics," teapots that become heads of musicians, a sea denizen created from the engine hood of a tractor, and all of the above set in flapping, opening, shutting, whirring motion by inviting the visitor to push their buttons.

I realise now that the reason I'm still thinking about them is that I identified with both the flying geese and the falling babies.

Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsBut the image of flying geese is no longer as fitting as it once was, because the production apparatus has become more like a spider's web, with components flitting in all directions and goods crossing and recrossing borders.

Some quilts featured traditional patterns, like "baby blocks," geometric series of rectangles that looked three-dimensional; "wedding ring," with interlocking circles; and "flying geese," in which triangular material forms chevron designs.

This technological transformation can also be explained by flying geese theory.

Moreover, in flying geese, locomotor respiratory coupling has been shown to be clearly related to wing beats, not to thoracic compression per se (Funk et al. 1992).

At about 2,500 feet it had collided with a flock of Canada geese flying southwest; geese are not uncommon in the New York area, their ancient migratory routes passing over it.

The project is two years in and so far the birds have imprinted Meyer-Brandis as their "mother-goose," learned to fly (as geese are wont to do), and accompanied the artist on a series of expeditions.

Hughes's aeronautical fantasies were then embodied in the semi-flightless wooden wonder, the Spruce Goose flying boat.

The two companies settled their dispute on undisclosed terms last December, but some articles in the aviation trade press declared that the Eclipse 500 would never get off the ground, and compared the plane to the much-ridiculed Spruce Goose flying boat that Howard Hughes tried to develop in the late 1940's.