He believes every goose's a swan till it up and honks, and he's jest as likely to think a swan's a goose."
"Country Neighbors"
Alice Brown
Four "honks" produced nothing, so far as I was concerned; but a bear-according to her shikari-passed close by Mrs. Locock, so thickly screened by jungle that she couldn't see it.
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
More "honk-honks" called Dorothy out to welcome her cousins, and presently Ned and Nat, and Dorothy and Tavia were chatting merrily on the porch, as the big machine puffed and "gasped" after its long run from North Birchland to Dalton.
"Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School"
Margaret Penrose