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Meanwhile, Sarabia scoops up a baby billy goat and cradles him in his arms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
The Cubs would go on to end a 108-year championship drought — and finally broke what some believed was a curse brought on by a Chicago tavern owner’s pet billy goat.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
And yet it would be easier to find a billy goat on an expressway than locate anyone in SoHo who still lives the way Ms. Rockburne does — in perfect consonance with creative purity.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2021
Neither Steve Bartman nor any billy goat rode that bus or occupied the clubhouse.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2020
He’s searching my face with his kind billy goat eyes.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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