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; and Wal's
; Darlene " Cheeky " Hobson: Wal's girlfriend.
; Janice " Pongo " Footrot: Wal's niece, daughter of Rex Footrot.
; Dolores Monrovia Godwit " Aunt Dolly " Footrot: Wal's aunt ( by marriage ).
; Rex: Wal's younger brother who lives in town and is a potter.
; Stewart " Irish " Murphy: Wal's other neighbour, a brutish man who does not welcome visitors and shoots any dog that strays onto his property, or mercifully hang them by their heels on the fence.
; Major: Wal's first dog.
; Cecil the Ram: An aged stud ram, who patently lacks zest for the task of servicing Wal's ewes.
; The Goat: The third strongest animal on the farm ( the first being Horse and the second Aunt Dolly ), The Goat lives tethered to a chain in Wal's backyard.

; and unruly
He succeeded in imposing an organized government upon the fiercest and most unruly population in Asia ; he availed himself of European inventions for strengthening his armament, while he sternly set his face against all innovations which, like Railways and Telegraphs, might give Europeans a foothold within his country.
Two young men ask counsel of Solomon ; the one, how he is to make himself beloved, the other, how he is to reduce an unruly wife to order.
Born in New Jersey, Solanas said that she was the victim of sexual abuse by her father ; and, after her parents ' divorce, she had a volatile relationship with her mother and stepfather as a teenager with her unruly behavior.
Lady Mary, " my unruly daughter " angered her father by refusing to marry the Earl of Clanbrassil, and again by marrying the Earl of Warwick without his consent ; but they were soon reconciled and he furnished a generous dowry.
By her firm administration she controlled the unruly nobles and checked numerous abuses ; but she damaged her reputation by excessive severity toward private enemies and the undue employment of menials for advisers, including her influential minister Leo Paraspondylos.
Ogun is the lascivious ( unruly ) Orisha ; one that would take multiple enclosures to the battle-front ; some filled to the brim with gunpowder ; pockets full of miracles ; allowances of wine and others sealed-tight in polished minerals.
The Spanish sent a screen of 500 harquebusiers to cover their advance ; but soon the two unruly mutineer regiments in the vanguard started the attack with a rash charge up the hill.
In 1896 there were fourteen mines operating nearby ; with hotels, boarding houses and saloons to accommodate the town's transient and sometimes unruly population.
Gaveston's lieutenancy was primarily of a military nature ; by the early 14th century, Ireland had become a rebellious and unruly dominion for the English crown.
Very rarely, courts have been known to gag unruly defendants ; Bobby Seale was the most famous case so far.
He did not stand out either at academic work or sport while at Eton ; his contemporaries describe him as a vivacious and rather unruly boy.
If there are more unhappy than happy citizens in a city, the city falls into civil disorder and all production ceases and no food is stored ; if a city remains in civil disorder for too long, improvements may be destroyed by the unruly mob.
The apparent players actually serve various roles in the swindle: they act as lookouts for the police ; they also serve as " muscle " to intimidate marks who become unruly and some are shills, whose job is to pretend to play the game, and entice the mark into betting.
He chooses the broken horse, but it falls over and dies of old age later that night ; he then is forced to ride the unruly horse.
Carel van Mander's biography accuses Mabuse of an unruly life ; yet it describes the solid education he must have had to learn his trade so well.
She even makes Goldibus go berserk on purpose so that she and Daichi have to fight him ; her goal is to behave in an unruly fashion until their mother ( who it can be inferred is dead or otherwise forever absent in real life ) comes to scold her, which would reunite Sora with their mother.
The Barbados slave code ostensibly sought to protect slaves from cruel masters and masters from unruly slaves ; in practice, it provided far more extensive protections for masters than for slaves.
Jorah is beaten beyond recognition for his constant defiance and his cheek is branded with a demon to mark him as a dangerous and unruly slave ; he stops physically fighting back when he learns that Daenerys is to be wed again, choosing instead to withdraw into himself and quietly ignore orders.
; Natalie Finch: The youngest daughter of Dr. Finch and Agnes who is seen as wild, unruly, and promiscuous throughout the memoir, giving her first hand job at the age of 11.
One of the Council's first acts was to try to subdue the unruly Maniots and pull down their towers ; another was to free Petros and Tzanis from their prisons.
Roland Bozz ( Colin Farrell ), a draftee who is opposed to the war, is shown to be an unruly soldier with no respect for authority ; he disobeys orders and talks back to his superiors.

; and goose
In English, the letter represents either a voiced postalveolar affricate (" soft G "), as in giant, ginger, and geology ; a voiced velar plosive (" hard G "), as in goose, gargoyle, and game ; or, in the digraph ⟨ ng ⟩, either a velar nasal as in length or a blend of the latter with the hard G as in jungle ; or, in the digraph ⟨ dg ⟩ as in bridge.
" Coles used the opinion of Thomas Gilmer to back himself up ; Gilmer said Jefferson told him at Monticello before the election of Adams in 1825: " One might as well make a sailor of a cock, or a soldier of a goose, as a President of Andrew Jackson.
Also there are literary clubs ( see writing circle and book club ), musical and art clubs, publishing clubs ; and the name of “ club ” has been annexed by a large group of associations which fall between the club proper and mere friendly societies, of a purely periodic and temporary nature, such as slate, goose and Christmas clubs, which do not need to be registered under the Friendly Societies Act.
In the north of England, goose was used in the pie's filling, but more generally neat's tongue was also used ; a North American filling recipe published in 1854 includes chopped neat's tongue, beef suet, blood raisins, currants, mace, cloves, nutmeg, brown sugar, apples, lemons, brandy and orange peel.
There are three living genera of true geese: Anser, grey geese, including the domesticated goose and the Swan Goose ; Chen, white geese ( often included in Anser ); and Branta, black geese, such as the Canada goose.
While many myths indicate Zeus and Leda to be the parents of Helen of Troy, the author of the compilation of myth called Bibliotheke notes the possibility of Nemesis being the mother of Helen ; Nemesis, to avoid Zeus, turns into a goose, but he turns into a swan and mates with her.
For Shakespeare, ' this is the liver-vein, which makes flesh a deity, a green goose a goddess ; pure, pure idolatry '.
A number of other waterbirds, mainly related to the shelducks, have " goose " as part of their name ; see the family page at Anatidae and the goose page for these.
Some species are known to be rather more specialised ; the Grey-backed Storm Petrel is known to concentrate on the larvae of goose barnacles.
1996, Johnson & Sorenson 1999 ) cast doubt on the allocation of several genera ; many supposed dabbling ducks and one peculiar goose may more correctly belong here, while some genera believed to be close to shelducks appear to have different relationships altogether.
Scattered throughout the board are a number of spaces on which a goose is depicted ; landing on a goose allows the player to move again by the same distance.
The Pure Meat Company offered a five-bird roast ( a goose, a turkey, a chicken, a pheasant, and a pigeon, stuffed with sausage ), described as a modern revival of the traditional Yorkshire Christmas pie, in 1989 ; and a three-bird roast ( a duck stuffed with chicken stuffed with a pigeon, with sage and apple stuffing ) in 1990.
# using small smooth muscles ( erector pili in mammals ) which are attached to feather or hair shafts ; this non-shivering thermogenesis distorts the surface of the skin as the feather / hair shaft is made more erect ( called goose bumps or pimples )
He had always been an animal lover ; amongst his favourite animals were a Newfoundland dog called Toss who used to accompany him to chambers, a macaw, a goose and two leeches.
However, Hardy's next venture, the 9 – 11 August bombardment of Stonington, Connecticut was a defeat ; Royal Navy cannonading set 20 buildings on fire while killing a horse and a goose, while reports indicate the sizeable American defending force killed 21 and wounded 50 British attackers.
" Given this presentation, it is hardly surprising that it has been taken to be a retelling of an actual legend ; Gallico writes that " the person and character of the painter are wholly fictional as is the story itself, although I am told that in some quarters the snow goose appearing over Dunkirk has been accepted as legend and I have been compelled to reply to many correspondents that it was sheer invention.
The most frequently used meat is pork, followed by beef, lamb, chicken, rabbit, duck and goose ; for immediate consumption it is often grilled, or dusted with breadcrumbs and sauteed, in a dish similar to schnitzel.
Anserimimus ( ; " goose mimic ") is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur, from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia.

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