Between them and abundance extended an almost impassable quagmire, in which horses and bullocks sank and died in thousands, although laden only with weights which a donkey in ordinary times could carry.
The cold was by no means excessive during the day, and although the snow was deep and heavy, there was no difficulty in keeping up with the convoy, as the pace of the bullocks was little over a mile and a half an hour.
Besides this, you must ask the King to give you a barrel of tar, twelve sacks of grain, and the carcasses of twelve oxen, and twelve hides of bullocks set all over with sharp spikes.
Then, by the crow’s directions, Hassan hid himself and the carts and bullocks and slaves some little distance away.
Ask the King to give you forty cartloads of wine, with bullocks to pull them, and forty slaves to drive the carts, and do you come away with me into the forest, and I may be able to get the ivory for you.
He inspected her bullocks critically, as they came up grunting and blowing under the yokes.
The voices of early evening had settled down to one soothing hum whose deepest note was the steady chumping of the bullocksabove their chopped straw, and whose highest was the tinkle of a Bengali dancing-girl's sitar.
The diamond-bright dawn woke men and crows and bullocks together.
Another cart loaded with bark for a down-country tannery followed close behind, and its driver added a few compliments as the ruth-bullocks backed and backed again.
But on the other hand he was from the biggest farm, and was the only one that had bullocks in his herd; he was not behind them in physical accomplishments, and none of them could carve as he could.
The animals were hungry in the morning, and the big bullocks did not trouble to move when once they had their noses buried in the corn and he stood belaboring them with the short handle of the cattle- whip.
The cow-calves and the two bull-calves all had their particular tender spot, and a well-directed blow upon a horn could make even the large bullocks bellow with pain.
In the course of our walk we saw six bullocks of a small breed and very fat, but which the Coreans were not to be tempted to sell by any thing which we had to give them.
We saw bullocks and poultry, but the natives would not exchange them for our money, or for any thing we had to offer.
They were not only unusually high, but the bullocks were badly supplied, and the contract had not been fairly advertised.
They faded from the world into a web of mist when trees rose suddenly like giants before them and in the depths of whose white glooms on either side they could hear the ceaseless munching of bullocks at nocturnal pasturage.
He walked out round his shrubberies and paddocks, and tried to take an interest in the bullocks and the horses.
When the great man arrived the Squire was out, still wandering round among the bullocks and sheep; but the evening after dinner would be very long.
They drove the bullocks forward mercilessly till they came to what Umballa considered a suitable spot.
The landing was made, the basket conveyed to the bullock cart, which was emptied of its bait and leopard trap; the bullocks were brought out and harnessed--all this activity before the fishing boats had covered half the distance.
Unsuccessful attempts to recapture the wagons were kept up till they were drawn as close to the opening in the old fortress walls as they could be got, the enemy being kept at bay while the bullocks were driven in.
The bullocks are sent out in the day with a strong guard on foot to keep behind the oxen, but the horses go out as soon as it's dark, every one with his man to lead him, and all ready for an attack.
The wagons had been emptied, and grain and meal stored under cover; horses and bullocks had a good feed, and one of the wagons was demolished for firewood, our whole force revelling in what they called a glorious roast of beef.
You say so because you're not hungry; but just wait till you are, and then you'll be as fidgety about the bullocks as I am.
The actions of these two being taken up by the men with the wagons behind, the bullocks for a time went on at the rate of quite another half-mile an hour extra.
Say want to 'top and rest bullocks and make fire for breakfast, Boss.
Might," replied Denham; "but bullocks are miserably obstinate brutes to drive.
Why, there must be going on for six hundred sirloins there, without counting other tit-bits; and if the bullocksare taken care of, each one is a sort of walking safe full of prime meat for the troops.
The man leaped to his feet and urged the bullocks on, while the driver on the box made his great two-handed whip crack loudly in the quiet of the morning.
But you would be so much use to my father, Joe, to manage the bullocks in the wagon.
Colonel's always going round about to see that the men don't expose themselves, and I expect that at any time there'll be orders given that neither the horses nor the bullocks are to be driven out to graze.
But the minutes glided by, as the line of wagons, all going on with the regularity of some great, elongated machine, rolled easily along over the soft earth, the rested bullocks pulling steadily under the guidance of their leaders and drivers.
My brother was wild; he threw the ear ropes down and wanted to know "If he'd lived all these years and traveled all these miles to plough Sundays with adjectived bullocks in a condemned country!
The weary ploughboy homeward bound," and not knowing one day from another here we were ploughing with bullocks when a man riding by said: "Thought you English did not work Sundays.
The doctor got some beetles and we came back and eat bananas and things till time to return to the ship with some little bullocks and vegetables.
Cleg could hear them crashing likebullocks through the briars and hazels of the underbrush.
He fed the bullocks to the clatter of cavalry hoofs.
Drive forward a small herd of bullocks to entice them, and now to your quarters.
A number ofbullocks fell also; these the men began at once to roast at the fires.
At last all the captain's belongings were landed, and the next proceeding was to obtain half a dozen more bullocks for draught purposes, and two or three more horses.
No; but mind and drive those bullocks and horses down to Jennings', and the gentleman will give you sixpence.
Here, boys," cried the captain just then; "take the horses and go round and fetch up that lot of bullocksfrom the plain.
Next day Black Paddy ran our tracks to the claim and the stockyard, found where the last bullocks had been driven to the Back Creek slaughter yards.
Bruce will be home next summer, if bullocks keep up and the price of wool.
We met many ponies carrying merchandise from Livno to Mostar, while long strings of carts drawn by eight bullocks were employed in carrying wood to the villages in the plain of Duvno.
The last commodity appeared to me to be scarcely necessary, as we met some hundreds of bullocks being driven out to graze in the valley, while the presence of our force rendered such a measure safe.
Meat is indeed rarely to be obtained anywhere, as sheep are never killed, and bullocks only when superannuated and deemed unfit for further physical labour.
Corn plenty, and bullocks that would make a figure in Smithfield.
The answer came in the panic of the bullocks and the dread of the horses; and, without hesitating, Jack lowered his piece in the direction of the sound, to fire both barrels rapidly one after the other.
The object was to form a sound enclosure, which was duly strengthened, so as to protect the horses and bullocks from the wild beasts that haunted the neighbourhood.
Suddenly the General gave a warning cry, one that was echoed by Mr Rogers, and the bullocks were pulled up short just as they touched the leaders.
Great care was needed now lest the water should prove to be merely a well or pool, into which the bullocks would rush, muddying the water, and perhaps trampling one another to death in their efforts to reach the refreshing liquid.
If the bullocks had moved a step, carriages, bullocks, and all must have been precipitated.
From time to time he turned round to laugh, or see that his men and trained bullocks were right; and then, as his bright eyes met my dark ones, he seemed to be sorry for the noise he made.
In Wardha he gets fifty pounds of grain per plough of fourbullocks or forty acres.
This is usually worked by a pair of bullocks moving forwards down a slope to raise the mot from the well and backwards up the slope to let it down when empty.
The labour is said to be very severe, and the bullocks often die after two or three years.
Behind him come the bullocks of the proprietors and then those of the tenants in the order, not so much of their wealth, but of their standing in the village and of the traditional position held by their families.
Those of the Sand or bull sept will not castrate bullocks themselves, and must have this operation performed on their plough-bullocks by others.
The people say that when a Kurmi gets rich he will do three things: marry his daughters very young and with great display, build a fine house, and buy the best bullocks he can afford.
The Kunbi and his bullocksare inseparable, and in speaking of the one it is difficult to dissociate the other.
Some Telis have Masan Baba in their possession, and when they are turning the oil-press they set him on top of it, and he makes the bullocks keep on working, so that the master can go away and leave the press.
One of the Muhammadan Thugs told Colonel Sleeman that, "The Arcot gangs will never intermarry with our families, saying that we once drove bullocks and were itinerant tradesmen, and consequently of lower caste.
They are also shopkeepers and petty traders, travelling about with pack-bullocks like the Banjaras.
The iron was brought by pack bullocks from Jambunath Konda, the dome-shaped hill at the Hospet end of the Sandur range, and was smelted and worked by men of the Kammara caste.
I'm just startin' off in no end of a hurry to go and take a team of bullocks to the Oriental to draw quartz.
They had another, and he said he didn't suppose it'd matter much if the Oriental had to wait a bit for their stone, and the bullocks were all over the bush and very poor, and by the time he got them together the wet season would be on.
Three of the bullocks were killed, and after being cut in pieces, their flesh was conveyed to the camp.
At every turn we noticed prints, large and small, of cloven hoofs, betokening that we were traversing the haunt both of bullocks and deer, some of the impressions being obviously those of very enormous creatures.
There were several bullocks amongst the booty we had captured, and I ordered one of them to be hoisted upon each vessel and slain for a sacrifice.
It crossed him sore; for he never endured such ceremonies with patience, complaining that he could feed a score of companies with fewer bullocks than were slain to satisfy one single god.
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