The pasture lands for sheep and black cattle had no shelters from the weather, and no winter provision of hay or straw (roots were unheard of until long after), "so that the beasts are in a dying condition.
In this famine the people ate the flesh of black cattle dead of disease.
Before the great sheep-farms were established, the Gairloch people always took their black cattle to the shielings on the hills to feed on the upland pastures.
Two days afterwards, a messenger came hurrying in from old Dogolwana to report that Songoza had swooped down and driven off the herd of black cattle belonging to little Gqomisa.
The herd of black cattle, which numbered several hundred head, was ever in the mind of Songoza, and Philip was continually reminding him that only the life of little Gqomisa stood between him and his possession.
The body of Umsoala was placed on a mat, in a sitting posture, facing the "great place," where the herd of black cattle that he had loved so well were kraaled every night.
Over in Skye wass the fine land for black cattle, and every man had his bit herd on the hillside.
But the lairds said it wass better for sheep, and then they said it wass not good for sheep, so they put it under deer, and now there is no black cattle anywhere in Skye.
But all the rest of Skye wass the fine land for black cattle.
Some hold that the goats, black cattle, and ponies which have been kept since the Roman occupation at any rate, are responsible for the destruction of these forests.
It was devastated by black cattle, goats, and other animals, and it was regularly exploited for fuel and building every day by every family for centuries.
When man kept herds of swine to eat acorns, black cattle, goats, and ponies, there would be many clearings and a great deal of open wood in which the cattle roamed about.
We saw great flocks of black turkeys feeding in the fields, but no black cattle; and milk was so scarce, that sometimes we were obliged to drink our tea without it.
They have no black cattle to afford such compost as our farmers use in England.
Finally, she averred that her "own mother had never seen her father till the night he brought her up from the Lennox, with ten head of black cattle, and there had not been a happier couple in the country.
Petty thefts were not included in the contract; but the theft of one horse, or one head of black cattle, or of sheep exceeding the number of six, fell under the agreement.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "black cattle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
