The poorer portions of beevesand sheep find their way to the compounds, the meat being eaten by the mine "boys.
There is an average of three beevesto each person, and 20 sheep to each inhabitant.
The classic authors slept on the shelves of the monasteries, their dark but happy asylum, while the life of the monks resembled that of the fattened beeves which loaded their tables.
Beeves was fifty; and, happily for his opinion of his profession, had never been to London.
I think those of us who were in the secret would have hurried over it, but with Beeves hanging upon our wheels, we could not.
When I came up to the gate, Beeveswas standing at it.
Beeves came back with the message that his mistress would join me in a few minutes.
On the first day they drove along with them a number of beeves but, finding that the cattle impeded the march, they left them behind on the mountain side.
Then they killed some of hisbeeves and cooked them; they had had neither food nor sleep for eighteen hours.
His wealth consists of one hundred sheep, as many goats, twelve milk-cows, and twenty-eight beeves ready for the drover.
Since they have sent their beeves in great numbers to southern marts, they have probably taken more care of their breed.
We got the sheep for small pieces of thin brass, worth about a penny or three halfpence each; and the beeves in the same manner for about the value of twelve-pence a-piece.
Coiros are beeves fattened at the cratch in ox-stalls, or in the fresh guimo meadows.
We have sent a Mr. Paton, Commissary for the State, to collect beeves in our southern counties, and forward them to your army.
We have an agent, collecting all the beeves which can be got from the counties round about Portsmouth, to send off to you.
I have been informed that the beeves which have been collected in Princess Anne and Norfolk, to be sent southwardly, were the first things which fell into the hands of the enemy.
You have, probably, received our order on Colonel Lewis, to deliver you any of the beeves he may have purchased.
The squire has fat beeves and brown ale, Gaffer Gray; And the season will welcome you there.
His fat beeves and his beer, And his merry new year, Are all for the flush and the fair, Well-a-day!
So they slaughtered beeves and stabbed camels in the throat and the kitcheners and carpet-spreaders were commanded to prepare the stables, and the officers of the household were ordered to receive the guests by night and by day.
The eldest enthroned himself as Sultan; the cadet assumed possession and management of the moneys and treasures and the youngest took to himself the camels and the horses and the beeves and the muttons.
When he returned, a young lieutenant came with him to inspect the drove; and by six o'clock the beeves had been declared satisfactory and were in a stockade pen behind the barracks.
Through the pen and up the jutting neck into the stifling, wheeled boxes, lowing in fright and advancing unwillingly, were driven the Dutchman's fat steers and the beeves belonging to the cattleman.
The morning before the big brothers were to round-up, a trooper rode in from the reservation with an urgent message from the new commandant, asking that as many head of beeves as possible be sent to the post.
A thousand altars smoke: a thousand thighs Of beeves here ready stand for sacrifice.
The gods require the thighs Of beeves for sacrifice; Which roasted, we the steam Must sacrifice to them, Who though they do not eat, Yet love the smell of meat.
She had sent him to Shiloh at the age of three years, and there, clothed in a linen tunic and in a little robe which his mother made for him herself, he ministered before God in the presence of Eli.
The sacred writings relate how his mother, the pious Hannah, had obtained his birth from Jahveh after years of childlessness, and had forthwith devoted him to the service of God.
Is old Bill going to ship beeves to Kansas City again this spring, Jud?
I've got to start a bunch of beeves for San Antone in the morning.
Where do you want them beeves to go in town--to Barber's, as usual?
I want this bunch of beeves to go to Zimmerman and Nesbit," said Webb, with a frosty light in his blue eyes.
Great herds of the finest and fattest beeves were continually being gathered together.
We sent wagons from Las Palomas after their few effects, and had all the families contentedly housed, either about headquarters or at the outlying ranchitas, before the first contingent of beeves was gathered.
But dates were getting a little close, for our first contingent of beeves was due on the coast on the twentieth, and to gather and drive them would require not less than ten days.
From the ranch books, we knew there were fully two thousandbeeves over five years old in our brand.
There are a lot of big ladino beeves in those brushy hills to the south and west.
If you can hold sight on a herd of beeves on a bad night like you did her, you'll be a foreman some day.
The conversation was allowed to drift at will, from the damages of the recent drouth to the prospect of a market for beeves that fall, until supper was announced.
After the agreement had been signed in duplicate, Mr. Orahood smilingly admitted that ours were the bestbeeves he had bought that spring.
We had something over a thousandbeeves while he had less than eight hundred.
Allowing the beeves to scatter, the old ranchero met and rode zigzagging through them until he came face to face with the pinto ladino.
By riding far from the watering points we encountered the older cattle, and within an hour after leaving the ranch I was showing some of the largest beeves on Las Palomas.
There was no special programme for the interim until gathering the beeves commenced, yet on a big ranch like Las Palomas there is always work.
After making arrangements to turn in two hundred beeves on our second contingent, and send a man with them to the coast, Hunter returned home.
For fear of a stampede, we raised a great commotion around the sleeping cattle; but in spite of our precaution, as the ladino beef reëntered the herd, over half the beeves jumped to their feet and began milling.
Several times I had an inclination to ask Mr. Orahood to remember my sore ankle, and on striking the broken country I suggested we ride slower, as many of our oldest beeves ranged through these hills.
Moreover, the Government was now feeding thousands of its new red wards, and these Indians needed thousands of beeves for rations, which were driven from the southern range to the upper army posts and reservations.
More than once a herd of some thousand beeves driven up from Texas on contract, and arriving late in autumn, was not accepted on its arrival at the army post--some pet of Washington perhaps had his own herd to sell!
Now the colonel understood Beeves, and Beeves knew that he understood him.
The moment he was out of sight, Beevesopened the garden-door, and began gesticulating like a madman, fully persuaded that the doctor would make his escape.
But Beeves knew likewise that the colonel would not give in to the possibility of his servant's taking such liberties with him.
Then Harry walked quietly up the first half of the stair, while Beeves hastened to open the door to the crest-fallen Dr.
Beeves laid violent hold upon the handle of the door, and pulled and twisted, but always took care to pull before he twisted.
Beeves waited like a mute; the colonel ate his breakfast like an offended parent; Adela trifled with hers like one who had other things to think about; and I ate mine like a parting guest who was being anything but sped.
Now what I do know about is this: The colonel came down-stairs in his dressing-gown and slippers, and foundBeeves flattening his nose against the glass of the garden-door.
The blood rushed into Adela's white face, and Beeves rushed out of the room.
When Harry returned, we carried the colonel up to his own room, and Beevesgot him to bed.
Beeves waited in a leaden-handed way, that showed he was determined to do his duty, although it should bring small pleasure with it.
A cattleman by the name of Richardson tried swearing out a warrant as a means of recovering the beeves which John Slaughter cut out of his herds, but the deputy returned with the paper unserved.
And the new possessors did not fancy giving up the beeves which had been fattening on their ranges during all these weeks.
By these communications they generally bring all the beeves and goats,[4] which are slaughtered in Chili by thousands for their tallow and lard.
The country abounds in all the necessaries of life, having abundance of beeves and hogs, and amazing quantities of fowls.
I wish mother could have lived to see us now--shipping beeves by the train-load--and buying cattle by the thousand.
You have a pass; you can catch the eastern mail at noon, and overtake the cattle train in time to see the beeves unloaded.
The double-wintered cattle naturally returned to their former range; but in order to quicken the work, any beeves of that class found below were drifted above headquarters.
Others lent their assistance to the wrangler in corralling his remuda, and after relieving the cutting horses, the beeves were grazed down the valley.
The second train of Lazy H beeves reached the railroad on schedule time.
That the beeves might be favored, they were held outside for the night, three miles from the corral, but an early sun found them safely inside the shipping pens.
Just shipped out their last train of beeves this week.
Give me the cattle from the short-grass country," said a salesman to a packer, as Wells Brothers' beeves were crossing the weighing scale.
Dell made a record of cutting out fifty beeves in less than an hour, and only letting one reënter the herd.
Your double-wintered beeves will reach their prime this month.
Joel was alert, felt the massive column of beeves yield to his slightest pressure, as a ship to the hand of the helmsman, as he veered the leaders out of the broken trails and guided the herd around the field to the upper pools.
Our salesman reports your consignment the fattest range beeveson to-day's market.
An hour before noon, an interested party left the commission office and sauntered forth to watch the beeves cross the scale.
Shirley, have shot arrows into his milk cows, killed several of thebeeves belonging to the contractor.
Some are sold on arrival and others kept until fall, when the choicest beeves are shipped East for packing purposes, or into Illinois for corn feeding.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beeves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
