Wild Geese

noun

the Wild Geese
the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries

People are busy ballooning or driving; shooting like stars along railroads; or migrating like swallows or wild-geese.

Wild geese are getting mighty scarce; geese always interested me.

Wild geese and ducks were plentiful in those regions, and there was an infinite variety of game.

I never was informed before where wild geese are known to breed.

There they changed into gray wild geese, and the seven flew towards the empty hills.

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