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Less bull the more you can do with em.
With a wary eye on the farmer's bull, Fred Somers of Montpelier and Mr. St. John marked the field with a red table cloth.
Seizin' the bull by the tail, he rushed his hoss forward and a little to one side, throwin' the bull off balance, and `` bustin' '' 'im with terrific force.
In the papal bull Manifestis Probatum, Pope Alexander III acknowledged Afonso as King and Portugal as an independent crown with the right to conquer lands from the Moors.
Lamarr is furious that his plans keep failing and decides to destroy Rock Ridge with a newly recruited and diverse army of thugs ( which Lamarr characterized as ideally consisting of " rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperadoes, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, half-wits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswagglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass kickers, shit kickers – and Methodists ").
Bishop Wigers ( 1138 – 60 ) was the first of a series of bishops of the Premonstratensian Order, which chose the occupants of the see until 1447 ; in that year a bull of Nicholas V gave the right of nomination to the elector of Brandenburg, with whom the bishops stood in a close feudal relation.
But as the pope gained greater political independence, the right of election was with the bull In nomine Domini reserved to cardinals in 1059, leaving the emperor only with a vague right of approbation.
This petition was complied with by Pope Pius IV, January 26, 1564, in the papal bull, Benedictus Deus, which enjoins strict obedience upon all Catholics and forbids, under pain of excommunication, all unauthorized interpretation, reserving this to the Pope alone and threatens the disobedient with " the indignation of Almighty God and of his blessed apostles, Peter and Paul.
This being was depicted in two major forms: firstly, as a 4-legged bison with a human head, and secondly, as a being with a man's head and torso attached to the rear legs and tail of a bull or bison.
The letters are invented compositions to a fictitious correspondent, which are a device for vignettes of agricultural and rural life, set in Attica, though mellifluous Aelian once boasted that he had never been outside Italy, never been aboard a ship ( which is at variance, though, with his own statement, de Natura Animalium XI. 40, that he had seen the bull Serapis with his own eyes ).
Compared to European breeds, the Canchim bull produces calves with the same weight but in larger numbers.
Some say that the Greeks took the constellation of Centaurus, and also its name " piercing bull ", from Mesopotamia, where it symbolized the god Baal who represents rain and fertility, fighting with and piercing with his horns the demon Mot who represents the summer drought.
Instead, Minos kept it for himself ; and in revenge, Poseidon made his wife Pasiphaë lust for the bull with the help of Aphrodite.
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.
Among the creatures that a draugr may turn into are a seal, a great flayed bull, a grey horse with a broken back but no ears or tail, and a cat that would sit upon a sleeper's chest and grow steadily heavier until the victim suffocated.
The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, bass fiddle, bass violin, doghouse bass, contrabass, bass viol, stand-up bass or bull fiddle, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2 ( see standard tuning ).
* Universalis Ecclesiae, a bull of Pope Pius IX that recreated the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England, which had gone underground with the death of the last Marian bishop in the reign of Elizabeth I

bull and wooden
Pasiphaë had the archetypal craftsman Daedalus make a hollow wooden cow, and climbed inside it in order to mate with the white bull.
In the Greek literalistic understanding of a Minoan myth, in order to actually copulate with the bull, she had the Athenian artificer Daedalus construct a portable wooden cow with a cowhide covering, within which she was able to satisfy her strong desire.
Initiates supposedly took their place in a pit beneath a slatted wooden floor, to be drenched by the blood of a bull sacrifice above.
Sometimes the body of the bull was mummified and fixed in a standing position on a foundation made of wooden planks.
Herodotus adds that he suffered much misfortune: his only daughter, whose corpse was interred in a wooden bull ( which Herodotus claims survived to his lifetime ), died before him ; additionally, the oracle at Buto predicted he would only rule six years, but through his shrewdness, Menkaure was able to rule a total of 12 years and foil the prophecy ( Herodotus, Histories, 2. 129-133 ).
A large wooden carving of a bull decorates the Bullring.
The stadium, replete with wooden grandstand, was dedicated by the Commissioner of Baseball, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, on July 26, 1926, who rode a live bullthe team mascot — onto the playing field.
Still in the air and in shock, Toro finally crashes into a wooden bull shield.

bull and cow
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.
Earlier Egyptian myths imply that the sun is within the lioness, Sekhmet, at night and can be seen reflected in her eyes or that it is within the cow, Hathor during the night, being reborn each morning as her son ( bull ).
For many larger deer the male is termed a " stag ", while for other larger deer the same words are used as for cattle: " bull " and " cow ".
** Dzo, zo or yakow ; a cross between a domestic cow / bull and a yak.
It was found early on that crossing a male buffalo with a domestic cow would produce few offspring, but that crossing a domestic bull with a buffalo cow apparently solved the problem.
A male pygmy hippopotamus is known as a bull, a female as a cow, and a baby as a calf.
Dunson adopts him and ties the boy's cow to his wagon, alongside a bull Dunson already owned.
With only the bull and the cow, Dunson, Groot and the boy enter Texas by crossing the Red River and Dunson proudly proclaims all the land about them as his own.
Ceremonial burials of bulls indicate that ritual sacrifice was part of the worship of the early cow deities and a bull might represent a king who became a deity after death.
The Apis bull is unique as he is the only Egyptian deity represented solely as an animal, and never as a human with an animal's head — perhaps, because from the earliest of Egyptian religious practices, they were animals sacrificed to the cow goddess and represented the resurrected, renewal of life ( Hapy and later Osiris ).
Dyauṣ Pitṛ has been depicted during the day-time as a red bull who bellows thunder ( in juxtaposition to the Prithvi Mata, represented as a cow ), or as the night heavens in form of a black horse adorned with pearls, symbolizing the stars.
It was apparently the foreleg of a freshly sacrificed bull or cow with which the mouth was touched.
New York public health officials banned Two F *** ing and Two Watching featuring a rotting cow and bull, because of fears of " vomiting among the visitors ".
Some traditional dishes are callos ( cow tripe, very traditional in Madrid and Asturias ), liver ( often prepared with onion or with garlic and parsley, and also as breaded steaks ), kidneys ( often prepared with sherry or grilled ), sheep's brains, criadillas ( bull testicles ), braised cow's tongue, pig's head and feet ( in Catalonia ; pig's feet are also traditionally eaten with snails ), pork brains ( part of the traditional ' tortilla sacromonte ' in Granada ), and pig's ears ( mostly in Galicia ).
CLASS B: For a calf by a bull registered or dual registered in the Herd Book or in the Supplementary Register and out of a foundation cow or heifer registered in Class A or B of the Supplementary Register and containing between 75 % and 87. 4 % Holstein genes or Friesian genes.

bull and Pasiphaë
To punish Minos, Aphrodite made Pasiphaë, Minos ' wife, fall deeply in love with the bull from the sea, the Cretan Bull.
Nowhere has the essence of the myth been expressed more succinctly than in the Heroides attributed to Ovid, where Pasiphaë's daughter complains of the curse of her unrequited love: " the bull's form disguised the god, Pasiphaë, my mother, a victim of the deluded bull, brought forth in travail her reproach and burden.
In Ovid's Ars Amatoria Pasiphaë is reduced to unflattering human terms: Pasiphae fieri gaudebat adultera tauri —" Pasiphaë took pleasure in becoming an adulteress with a bull.
In Greek mythology, the Cretan Bull was either the bull that carried away Europa or the bull Pasiphaë fell in love with, giving birth to the Minotaur.
Her mother, Pasiphaë was cursed by Aphrodite to fall in love and mate with a white bull, giving rise to the legendary Minotaur.

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