Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "adventure" ¶ 92
from Brown Corpus
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

mare and began
The stallion had smelled the mare coming into heat and began to paw the turf, shaking his head.
The blacksmith had not long begun his work however when the mare began to speak, evidently having worked out how to form human words with her equine lips.
Sent out as a $ 3. 50 second favourite, she began off the pace, but ran home to record a win by half a length, becoming the first mare to ever win the Sydney Cup / Melbourne Cup double in the same season, and only the fourth horse to have accomplished the double win.
In recent years, there has been a multitude of calls to clean or paint the " old grey mare " and such a renovation began in May 2006.
In 1981 he began the career as a sole singer and established as a songwriter: his most famous success in this latter role is " Il mare d ' inverno " (" The Sea in Winter "), brought to chart by Loredana Bertè.

mare and from
Anestrus-occurring in the majority of, but not all, mares-prevents the mare from conceiving in the winter months, as that would result in her foaling during the harshest part of the year, a time when it would be most difficult for the foal to survive.
Changes in hormone levels can have great effects on the physical characteristics of the reproductive organs of the mare, thereby preparing, or preventing, her from conceiving.
He pursues the mare-Demeter and from the union she bears the horse Arion and a daughter who originally had the form or the shape of a mare.
In his 1859 The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin recalls seeing coloured drawings of zebra-donkey hybrids, and mentions " Lord Moreton's famous hybrid from a chesnut mare and male quagga ..." Darwin mentioned this particular hybrid again in 1868 in The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, and provides a citation to the journal in which Lord Morton first described the breeding.
Not only is Kobyla Russian for " mare ", some of his relatives also had as nicknames the terms for horses and other domestic animals, thus suggesting descent from one of the royal equerries.
That night, the builder drove out to fetch stone with his stallion Svaðilfari, and out from a wood ran a mare.
In addition to the aforementioned hypothesis, there is the theory that Marsala comes from mare salis, or rather " Salt ponds by the sea " for the presence of salt pond along the whole northern coast.
One theory is derivation from the old German word " Mähre " ( ahd, meaning female horse ), where misinterpretation of the German name Meerrettich (" sea radish ") became Mährrettich (" mare radish ").
The word derives from the Old English " mare ", a mythological demon who torments human beings with frightening dreams.
In this way Cartier is not strictly the European discoverer of Canada as this country is understood today, a vast federation stretching a mari usque ad mare ( from sea to sea ).
Thereupon the giants made at Grjöttungard a man of clay, who was nine rasts tall and three rasts broad under the arms, but being unable to find a heart large enough to be suitable for him, they took the heart from a mare, but even this fluttered and trembled when Thor came.
That night, the builder drove out to fetch stone with his stallion Svaðilfari, and out from a wood ran a mare.
Two suggestions for a new motto are A mari ad mare ad mare ( from sea to sea to sea ) and A mari usque ad maria ( from the sea to the other seas ).
Her successful avoidance of further pregnancies would have been a natural reaction to having been assigned the role of an imperial brood mare, bearing a child a year only to have it taken away from her, but the importance of preserving her youthful appearance was an important influence in her decision: " Children are the curse of a woman, for when they come, they drive away Beauty, which is the best gift of the gods ".
Popular Spanish villancicos include " Los pastores a Belén ," " Riu, riu, chiu: El lobo rabioso ," " Los peces en el río ," and " El niño querido " ( originally " El noi de la mare " from Catalonia ).
* In folk epic and legends, Miloš was celebrated as the hero of supernatural birth and strength ( his mother was a fairy, demonic creature or his father was a dragon ; he had got his strength from the milk of the mare ).
In pure mare horse races, horses from higher classification get 20, 40 or up to 60 meter extra to run.
It starts at the edge of Oceanus Procellarum near the modest crater Sirsalis from which it gets its name and proceeds directly away from the mare, eventually ending up among the cracks in the floor of the crater Darwin.
The dark circular feature which dominates this mare is the crater Thomson ( 112 km diameter ), with the overflow from Ingenii / Thomson directly to the east.
Palus Somni, on the northeastern rim of the mare, is filled with the basalt that spilled over from Tranquillitatis.

mare and stallion
The male parent of a horse, a stallion, is commonly known as the sire and the female parent, the mare, is called the dam.
) Though many horse owners may simply breed a family mare to a local stallion in order to produce a companion animal, most professional breeders use selective breeding to produce individuals of a given phenotype, or breed.
The mare welcomes the stallion by lowering her rear and lifting her tail.
The estrous cycle ( also spelled oestrous ) controls when a mare is sexually receptive toward a stallion, and helps to physically prepare the mare for conception.
* Estrus, or Follicular, phase: 5 – 7 days in length, when the mare is sexually receptive to a stallion.
* Diestrus, or Luteal, phase: 14 – 15 days in length, the mare is not sexually receptive to the stallion.
Additionally, it causes behavioral changes in the mare, making her more receptive toward the stallion, and causes physical changes in the cervix, uterus, and vagina to prepare the mare for conception ( see above ).
* Progesterone: prevents conception and decreases sexual receptibility of the mare to the stallion.
A stallion, approaching with a high head, will usually nicker, nip and nudge the mare, as well as sniff her urine to determine her readiness for mating.
And by the stallion Svaðilfari, Loki is the mother — giving birth in the form of a mareto the eight-legged horse Sleipnir.
The illuminating exception is the archaic and localised myth of the stallion Poseidon and mare Demeter at Phigalia in isolated and conservative Arcadia, noted by Pausanias ( 2nd century AD ) as having fallen into desuetude ; the violated Demeter was Demeter Erinys.
She spurned his advances, turning herself into a mare so that she could hide in a herd of horses ; he saw through the deception and became a stallion and captured her.
Horses organize themselves into small bands with a dominant mare at the top of the pecking order, as well as a resident stallion.
* Mating of animals, e. g. a stallion covers a mare
In Norse mythology, Svaðilfari ( Old Norse " unlucky traveler ") is a stallion that fathered the eight-legged horse Sleipnir with Loki ( in the form of a mare ).
In China in 1981, a hinny mare proved fertile with a donkey stallion.
In Morocco in 2003, a mule mare bred to a donkey stallion produced a male foal ; DNA testing revealed the foal has a mixed karyotype hybrid like the Chinese hinny offspring, Dragon Foal.
In one tale, Demeter transformed herself into a mare to escape Poseidon, but Poseidon counter-transformed himself into a stallion to pursue her, and succeeded in the rape.
In 1802 the stallion, Northumberland, and an English mare were imported, followed shortly thereafter by Washington, a stallion from America.

0.344 seconds.