Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.

In the cow camps, Tom Horn was regarded as a hero, as the same kind of champion he was when he entered and invariably won the local rodeos.

While driving the cow back home the woman was assaulted by a servant maid of Gorton.

The cowboy's humorous name for a cow givin' milk was a `` milk pitcher ''.

When a cow came out of a corral in a crouchin' run she was said to `` come out a-stoopin' ''.

It was when she was in this position that the name `` prayin' cow '' was suggested to the cowboy.

The cow, unlike a bull or steer, kept her eyes open and her mind on her business when chargin', and a cow `` on the prod '' or `` on the peck '' was feared by the cowhand more than any of his other charges.

The name comes from Greek Bosporos ( Βόσπορος ), which the ancient Greeks analysed as bous ' ox ' + poros ' means of passing a river, ford, ferry ', thus meaning ' ox-ford ', which is a reference to Io ( mythology ) from Greek mythology who was transformed into a cow and condemned to wander the earth until she crossed the Bosphorus where she met Prometheus.

for the Terrified, which was originally set up in Wedmore in 1999, is based in an old cow shed on the school's grounds.

For Pasiphaë, as Greek mythologers interpreted it, Daedalus also built a wooden cow so she could mate with the bull, for the Greeks imagined the Minoan bull of the sun to be an actual, earthly bull, Daedalus was so envious of his nephew's accomplishments that he took an opportunity.

Total meat production that year was 30, 900 tons ; cow ’ s milk, 39, 200 tons ; and eggs, 2, 000 tons.

There was also trade in cow hides from the wild descendants of cattle introduced by French settlers in the late 18th century.

However, the Sikh governors turned out to be hard taskmasters, and Sikh rule was generally considered oppressive, protected perhaps by the remoteness of Kashmir from the capital of the Sikh empire in Lahore ; The Sikhs enacted a number of anti-Muslim laws, which included handing out death sentences for cow slaughter, closing down the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, and banning the azaan, the public Muslim call to prayer.

Additionally, Sanskrit grammarians debated for over twelve centuries whether humans ' ability to recognize the meaning of words was god-given ( possibly innate ) or passed down by previous generations and learned from already established conventions — e. g. a child learning the word for cow by listening to trusted speakers talking about cows.

This phospholipid was originally discovered in cow hearts in 1942, and is usually characteristic of mitochondrial and bacterial plasma membranes.

Whereas Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in his own commentary compares the Minotaur with all three sins of violence within the seventh circle: " The Minotaur, who is situated at the rim of the tripartite circle, fed, according to the poem was biting himself ( violence against oneself ) and was conceived in the ' false cow ' ( violence against nature, daughter of God ).

The bull mated with the wooden cow and Pasiphaë was impregnated by the bull, giving birth to a horrible monster, again named Asterius, the Minotaur, half man half bull.

`` Mixed herd '' meant a herd of mixed sexes, while a `` straight steer herd '' was one composed entirely of steers, and when the cowman spoke of `` mixed cattle '', he meant cattle of various grades, ages, and sexes.

Rammin' one horn of a downed steer into the ground to hold 'im down was called `` peggin' ''.

Starting in 2007 with an economy surpassed by the economic crisis, Ecuador was subject to a number of economic policy reforms by Government that have helped steer the Ecuadorian economy to a sustained, substantial, and focused to achieve financial stability and social policy.

While Clinton could steer a middle ground between his Democratic supporters and the Republican Congress on monetary issues, Reno's job was at the center of a variety of intractable cultural conflicts.

Here, the joystick of the Kehl transmitter was used by an operator to steer the missile towards its target.

The earliest known electronic game joystick with a fire button was released by Sega as part of their 1969 arcade game Missile, a shooter simulation game that used it as part of an early dual-control scheme, where two directional buttons are used to move a motorized tank and a two-way joystick is used to shoot and steer the missile onto oncoming planes displayed on the screen ; when a plane is hit, an explosion is animated on screen along with an explosion sound.

It has been thought that Otho's suicide was committed in order to steer his country from the path to civil war.

Other etymological theories mentioned by Blackstone on the use of star, include the derivation from steoran ( steer ) meaning " to govern ", it was a court used to punish ( crimen stellionatus ) ( cozenage ) or the chamber was full of windows.

With such torpedoes the method of attack in small torpedo boats, torpedo bombers and small submarines was to steer a predictable collision course abeam to the target and release the torpedo at the last minute, then peeling away, all the time subject to defensive fire.

In 1946, Nuvolari raced in the Milan Grand Prix using only one hand to steer ; the other was holding a bloodstained handkerchief over his mouth.

Not everybody was supportive ; Coward's sympathy was limited: " He's been fighting like a steer to keep going as before the war and hasn't done a thing for the general effort ", but when Novello returned to The Dancing Years after his release, he received " a rapturous ovation " on his first entrance.

It was also the earliest known arcade game to feature a joystick with a fire button, which was used as part of an early dual-control scheme, where two directional buttons are used to move the player's tank and a two-way joystick is used to shoot and steer the missile onto oncoming planes displayed on the screen ; when a plane is hit, an explosion is animated on screen along with an explosion sound.

He was a cross-community worker who helped steer young people away from violence.

It was always mentioned that his pain tolerance is lower than Frank's and thus, he's unable to steer the needles as well as Frank during a Backstep.

The course in Stockholm was not straight, and one of the two lanes was clearly favoured, the other requiring the cox to steer around a protruding boathouse and then back under a bridge.

Additionally, the Stampede was the first rodeo to introduce a no-time penalty for competitors who make a dangerous tackle in the steer wrestling event.

There was now no horse to look after, but someone had to steer the butty, unless on a wide canal such as the Grand Union Canal where the two boats could be roped side-to-side or ' breasted up ', and handled as one while working locks.

The original " Big Chair " was constructed in 1922 by the Thomasville Chair Company ( now Thomasville Furniture Industries ) out of lumber and Swiss steer hide to reflect the city's prominent furniture industry.

" The length of the trains increased to ten or eleven tubs, but such a train was difficult to steer from the rear, and so the tugs moved to the front and pulled the assembly.

Near the southern border, cattle of the early longhorn breed whose coloration was black with a lineback, with white speckles frequently appearin' on the sides and belly, were called `` zorrillas ''.

The leaner longhorn beef was not as attractive in an era where tallow was highly prized, and the longhorn's ability to survive on the poor vegetation of the open range was no longer as much of an issue.

The Texas longhorn stock slowly dwindled, until in 1927 the breed was saved from near extinction by enthusiasts from the United States Forest Service, who collected a small herd of stock to breed on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Lawton, Oklahoma.

The dam derives its name because it was the ford across the Colorado for longhorn cattle drives as a part of the Chisholm Trail in the late 19th century.

The trademark of the group was the " Longhorn " pose, where each member raised their arms at an angle and positioned their hands flat resembling JBL's Texas longhorn symbol.

Based in Fort Worth, Texas, the organization was founded in 1964 to serve as a registry for the longhorn breed.

The Shawnee Trail was the earliest and easternmost route by which Texas longhorn cattle were taken to the north.

" Of the principal routes by which Texas longhorn cattle were taken afoot to railheads to the north, the earliest and easternmost was the Shawnee Trail.