Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

He was gifted with animal magnetism and a potent allure for women of any race.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

I always felt the memory was present in both of them, stirring in their chests like a laugh or a growl, as eager as an animal to be out.

As we think of the long and excruciating pain it must have suffered, we are very likely to say: `` It was a bad thing that the little animal should suffer so ''.

Let us suppose that the animal did not in fact fall into the trap and did not suffer at all, but that we mistakenly believe it did, and say as before that its suffering was an evil thing.

`` Tailin' '' was the throwin' of an animal by the tail in lieu of a rope.

An animal covered with splotches or spots of different colors was called a `` brindle '' or `` brockle ''.

A `` lineback '' was an animal with a stripe of different color from the rest of its body runnin' down its back, while a `` lobo stripe '' was the white, yeller, or brown stripe runnin' down the back, from neck to tail, a characteristic of many Spanish cattle.

Such an animal was said to be `` mealynosed ''.

An animal with distinct coloration, or other marks easily distinguished and remembered by the owner and his riders, was sometimes used as a `` marker ''.

There was a grunt, curiously inarticulate, like that of an animal in pain.

`` You bring only wickedness '', she said and it was not to a child any longer but to another woman who had come to skirt her lodge with the cunning hunger of a wild animal.

I had killed snakes before, when I was younger, but there had been no animal like this one, and I knew it was unthinkable that an animal such as that should die.

There was no ring of animal corpses.

He was considered the 19th century's leading expert on the geographical distribution of animal species and is sometimes called the " father of biogeography ".

There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus ' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles ' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis ' equal in hunting.

Benjamin Franklin was familiar with Antoine, as they were both members of the " Benjamin Franklin inquiries " into Mesmer and animal magnetism.

This was the preferred method for protein consumption over animal husbandry, as it required much more work to defend the kept animals against American Indians or the French.

One of the most famous and popular North American folklore heroes, he is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, and is often accompanied in stories by his animal companion, Babe the Blue Ox.

The use of acellular human or animal dermal grafts have been described as an onlay patch to increase coverage of the implant when the pectoral muscle is released, which purports to improve both functional and aesthtic outcomes of implant-expander breast reconstruction.

They did not call the animal a bunyip, but described the remains indicating the creature as very much like a hippopotamus or manatee.

In mid-August 2006, Michelle O ' Donnell of Turner, Maine, described an " evil looking " rodent-like animal with fangs that had been found dead alongside a road.

Meat and other animal byproducts are described as having this taste.

The Great Auk was one of the 4400 animal species originally described by Carolus Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae, in which it was named Alca impennis.

The former, which is the second-largest animal phylum by number of described species, includes animals such as snails, clams, and squids, and the latter comprises the segmented worms, such as earthworms and leeches.

In fact, Rousseau's natural man is virtually identical to a solitary chimpanzee or other ape, such as the orangutan as described by Buffon ; and the " natural " goodness of humanity is thus the goodness of an animal, which is neither good nor bad.

Orcinus orca is the only recognized extant species in the genus Orcinus, one of many animal species originally described by Linnaeus in 1758 in Systema Naturae.

Dinsdale allegedly spotted the animal on his last day hunting for it, and described the object as reddish with a blotch on its side.

Robert Rines also explained that the " horns " described in some sightings may be breathing tubes or nostrils that allow the animal to breathe without breaking the surface.

" Naturalist Joseph Menges had also told Hagenbeck about an animal alleged to live in Africa, described as " some kind of dinosaur, seemingly akin to the brontosaurs.

In book 8, chapter 16 of Pliny the Elder's Natural History from 77 AD the elk and an animal called achlis, which is presumably the same animal, are described thus:

One witness, Reverend W. J. Hancock, described the animal as looking like a large kangaroo, running and leaping across a field.

#* Adams described himself as a " church going animal ".

One of the most famous and popular North American folklore heroes, he is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, and is often accompanied in stories by his animal companion, Babe the Blue Ox.

The animal was described as being both a mammal, a bat, and a form in between mammals and birds, i. e. not intermediate in descent but in " affinity " or archetype.

It features an animal composed entirely of polywater, with the metabolism described by Richard Feynman.

Another example is " The Rarie ", in which an imaginary, exotic animal known as a Rarie is bought by someone as a cute pet, but progressively grows so large ( described in many stages ) that its owner cannot keep it.

Darwin described natural selection as being analogous to the artificial selection practised by animal breeders, and emphasised competition between individuals ; Wallace drew no comparison to selective breeding, and focused on ecological pressures that kept different varieties adapted to local conditions.

Each animal is described, and an anecdote follows, from which the moral and symbolic qualities of the animal are derived.

Various methods for becoming a werewolf have been reported, one of the simplest being the removal of clothing and putting on a belt made of wolfskin, probably as a substitute for the assumption of an entire animal skin ( which also is frequently described ).