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The goitred Chassid opened his lips and added, "If not now, when? as Hillel asked."

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

And 22 yet he notes the “ominous configuration of Mount Pilatus” and its terrible form, and writes of adjoining mountains as “these hump-backed, goitred giants crouching around me in the darkness.”

From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)

An old half-witted man and his goitred wife kept the place, and provided rough food and bedding for travellers, though interesting themselves in no wise with their concerns.

From Tom Tufton's Travels by Everett-Green, Evelyn

I meditated rapidly but disjointedly, having to keep an eye against a sudden rush of my assailants, and mistrusting the goitred saint yet the more because he was so silent.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel