In the present instance, he left the Black Bull grinding his teeth.
He had been at the Black Bull before two o'clock, but had been sent off by his employer with a note to a house at a considerable distance in such urgent haste that he had not time even to think of leaving a message for his friend.
He reached the Black Bullat two o'clock precisely.
Robin sped quickly away, executed his mission, and returned to the Black Bullin a state of considerable excitement and strong hope.
His night's work was a blank, unless-- With a bull rush he hurled himself forward at the interestedly waiting Lad.
The Master talked of buying a whalebone-and-steel-and-snow bull terrier, or a more formidable if more greedy Great Dane.
I did not wish to shoot, waiting for the appearance of the bigbull which I knew was accompanying them.
Once the victim was a bull which had got mired, and which the bear deliberately proceeded to eat alive, heedless of the bellows of the unfortunate beast.
Their mother herself was a cross between a bull mastiff and a Newfoundland, while the father was descried as being a big dog that belonged to a "Dutch Count.
I have never heard of elk making a fight against a bear; yet, at close quarters and at bay, a bull elk in the rutting season is an ugly foe.
At last, when I had begun to grow very anxious lest the others should take alarm, the bull likewise appeared on the edge of the glade, and stood with outstretched head, scratching his throat against a young tree, which shook violently.
A bull elk or bull moose, when on its guard, makes a most dangerous fight; but a single wolf will frequently master the cow of either animal, as well as domestic cattle and horses.
Nor could a cougar overcome a bull moose, or a bull elk either, if the latter's horns were grown, save by taking it unawares.
My brother also came in for a charge, while killing the biggest bull that was slain by any of the party.
A bull moose is even more formidable, being able to strike the most lightning-like blows with his terrible forefeet, his true weapons of defense.
He was out alone, and saw a small herd of cows and calves at some distance, with a huge bullamong them, towering above them like a giant.
The horse was hurled to the ground with a broken back, and King's leg was likewise broken, while the bull turned a complete somerset over them and never rose again.
Instantly the great bull wheeled and charged in headlong anger, while the herd fled in the opposite direction.
On another occasion, when my brother was out with one of his friends, they fired at a small herd containing an old bull; the bull charged the smoke, and the whole herd followed him.
I bought a new short-horn bull last fall, Thomas,” said he.
There is no knowing how soon John Bull will shut the door again, and then, here we’ll be penned up for six months, or more, perhaps.
Know that I am the wife of that bull among kings, known to all by the name of Damayanti, anxious to find out my (missing) lord.
Janamejaya said, 'How did that bull among the Kurus, king Yudhishthira, for the sake of the Brahmanas adore the sun of wonderful appearance?
O bull of the Bharata race, having walked round that tirtha, one should, O thou foremost of the Kurus, go to that tirtha celebrated over the three worlds and known by the name of Drimi.
He is a useless burden on the earth like an incapacitated bull and perisheth ingloriously.
That bull among men wheeled round Salwa's host so easily that they who witnessed it wondered exceedingly.
In that tirtha, O bullof the Bharata race, there is a sacred lake of the Vasus.
O bull of the Bharata race, towards the end of the last mentioned period of one thousand years, i.
And, O bull among men, compass thou thy own good as also of the Pandavas, of the Kurus and of the world!
Therefore, O bull among the Kshatriyas, leave to me this pigeon, whom Heaven hath today ordained for my food, O ruler of earth, that hawks eat pigeons is the eternal provision.
And at last O bull of the Bharata race, that wicked souled Asura arriving at a sea of sands known by the name of Ujjalaka, began to distress to the utmost of his might the asylum of Utanka.
O bull of the Bharata race, let there be peace between thee and Pandavas!
And, O bull of the Bharata race, in course of his eleemosynary round among the houses of persons of good lineage, the Brahmana entered one such house that he knew from before.
Just in front stood a huge stone bull, the sacred bull of the Hindu worship.
He hunkered down in the slime to eat a tallowy stew of bull meat and barley from a metal pannikin.
Nobody but a bull would be wearing shoes like that.
The bull is defended by the solar hero Cuchulain, who, however, is ultimately overthrown and the bull is captured for a season.
So at AEgira, in Achaea, as Whitley Stokes points out, the priestess of Earth drank the fresh blood of a bull before descending into the cave to prophesy.
The Brown Bull is the Celtic counterpart of the Hindu sky-deity, Indra, represented in Hindu myth as a mighty bull, whose roaring is the thunder and who lets loose the rains "like cows streaming forth to pasture.
As soon as his horned friend were down, William turned, clinked off like a long-dog, and jumped safe over hedge, before the praying bull had got on his feet again to take after him.
William used to say that he'd seen a man look a fool a good many times, but never such a fool as that bull looked when he found his pious feelings had been played upon, and 'twas not Christmas Eve.
But no sooner did William stop his playing and turn to get over hedge than the bull would stop his smiling and lower his horns towards the seat of William's breeches.
The bull softened down, and stood still, looking hard at William Dewy, who fiddled on and on; till a sort of a smile stole over the bull's face.
Theseus Sails to Crete But there was a greater adventure with greater glory awaiting Theseus, for Athens had a more terrible enemy than the mad Bull of Marathon.
The Seventh Labor--Herakles Catches the Mad Bullof Crete 24 X.
This Bull did great havoc among the inhabitants of the surrounding country.
He drove the Bull into his barn and sacrificed another to the God of the Sea.
It came to pass that a wonderful Bull rose from the sea while Minos was king.
In the plain of Marathon the terrible Bull which Herakles had brought from Crete to Eurystheus still roamed, but the tyrant had turned it loose.
The king told him that he was entirely welcome to the Bullif he could catch him.
They rejoiced because he had rid them of such a pest and they admired his strength, but they did not dare to help him, and stood ready to run for their lives in case the Bull should slip away from him.
Poseidon grew angry with him and caused the Bull to become mad so that no one dared to approach him.
And you can see the capture of the wild Bull of Marathon.
The Bull wandered off to Sparta and over the hills of Arcadia and crossing the Isthmus, he reached Marathon, where he left the land and swam off into the sea.
Milo of Croton in Italy, it was said, would carry a bull on his shoulders; he stopped a chariot in its course by seizing it from behind.
Of these animal gods the most venerated was the bull Apis.
Every year they celebrated a common festival, when their delegates, assembled at Alba, sacrificed a bull in honor of their common god, the Latin Jupiter.
When the Romans found a city, they observe the Etruscan rites: the founder traces a square enclosure with a plough with share of bronze, drawn by a white bull and a white heifer.
A bull is led over this platform, the priest kills him and his blood runs through the holes of the platform upon the garments, the face, and the hair of the worshipper.
He was absent from his command until the second battle of Bull Run, after which he obtained the command of his division.
Likewise, a green bullto be baited, which was never baited before; and a bull to be turned loose with fireworks all over him.
If you felt pained by its being led without any guilt to the place of death, what was there to choose between a bull and a sheep?
When Belmonte turned his back suddenly on the bulland walked away dragging the red cloak on the ground behind him I felt it,' said Lyæus.
I have been turning pages in Forty Years On and reading about such matters as the Copley curse, school life at Harrow where Shifner and others bowed the knee to Baal, bull fights in Peru and adventures in the Klondike.
John Bull that he is; and yet he can find time to sing as merrily as an abbot, morning and evening, since he sang the new year in last January.
You were a dove where you ought to have been a bull, and a bull where you ought to have been a dove.
Get on your horse, and have four hours' gallop on the downs, and you'll feel like a buffalo bull by two o'clock.
Paul flushed up, but took the bull by the horns without a moment's hesitation.
MacInnes' bull is loose, and he isn't always quite canny.
He is always telling cock-and-bull stories about the big fish there, so we will set him to catch one.
I thought so the night I carried him off the field at Bull Run,' said Nehemiah.
I was in soldier clothes I had with me no others--and all in my car came to talk with me about the now famous battle of Bull Run.
The bull in the fields had not yet come to an understanding of its rights, and was frequently tempted into argument with a locomotive.
We found a cave in a big ledge over back of Bull Pond.
The oxen seemed always to be expecting the sting of the bull whip; they stared at me timidly, tilting their ears every moment, as if to empty them of a heavy load; while the horses snorted with apprehension.
And I well remember how, when I lay dying, as I believed, in rain and darkness on the bloody field of Bull Run, I thought of that moment and of those words.
Our monarch has summoned us together that we may see him sacrifice a blackbull to Neptune.
Hardly a scrap was left, and we turned our steps toward where lay the bull elk I had killed.
Several times we had heard at night the musical calling of the bull elk--a sound to which no writer has as yet done justice.
I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.
Now and then a fish leaped and splashed or a bull frog bellowed his hoarse "Better go home" into the silence.
The whole thing might have been a cock and bull story, fabricated by a rotten, clever mind like yours, to apply the money screw to me.
At the same moment the lasso broke, and the bullrecovered its feet and continued its wild flight.
Whirling the noose round his head, he threw it adroitly in such a manner that the bull put one of its legs within the coil.
Not had the Minotaur had twenty bull heads instead of one.
She probably perished in the sea; or, to whatever shore the white bull may have carried her, it is now so many years ago, that there would be neither love nor acquaintance between us, should we meet again.
Never before did a bull have such bright and tender eyes, and such smooth horns of ivory, as this one.
Therefore, when Cadmus and his two brothers came crying home, and told him how that a white bull had carried off their sister, and swam with her over the sea, the king was quite beside himself with grief and rage.
Our monarch has summoned us together, that we may see him sacrifice a black bull to Neptune, who, they say, is his majesty's father.
And not only did the bull bend his neck, he absolutely knelt down at her feet, and made such intelligent nods, and other inviting gestures, that Europa understood what he meant just as well as if he had put it in so many words.
Fetching a sword stroke at him with all his force, he hit him fair upon the neck, and made his bull head skip six yards from his human body, which fell down flat upon the ground.
And how dare you make this disturbance, while I am sacrificing a black bull to my father Neptune?
Sad, sad it was to hear them asking of every passer-by if he had seen Europa, so long after the white bull had carried her away.
