| Old pilots and young, fishermen and gossoons, they swept out from creek and headland in their swift Mayo skiffs. |
| Well, they were going through a village, and a whole army of gossoons were hunting a poor dog with a kettle tied to his tail. |
| When she began to dance, by way of showing the gossoons what she had seen in the fairy rings at night, the house broke into a prolonged uproar. |
| He told Dublin relief workers to round up 700 poor gossoons and colleens. |
