No matter; anybody that keeps flocks has to chase calves now and then, and he has to get his little boy to help him.
Some of them have verdure on them, and I can fancy Abraham pasturing his flocks on them, and with little Isaac chasing calves through the dews of Hermon.
It says that the calves are not to be killed, so that they may grow up and increase; that the cows are not to be killed in winter or spring, excepting by the Indians when they are in need of them as food.
Most of the herds, however, were small, and we remarked with regret that very few calves of this season were to be seen.
According to Fiquet, female calves are born if the cow is poorly fed.
Russian Baltic provinces, informed me by letter that in his herds the greater number of calves are born in February.
A more powerful bull might beget female calves earlier in the late rutting time than an older one.
Tearing pains in the calves of the legs, with a feeling of heat, extending down to the toes; the palms of the hands and soles of the feet are very hot.
Wrenching pains in the calves extending into the toes and preventing sleep the whole night; she does not know where to put her legs.
Sensation of formication in the calves of the legs.
Those about the fort are gentle, but will not allow a person to touch their bodies, not even the young calves of the last spring.
Cows run faster than bulls, yearlings faster than cows, andcalves faster than any of these.
When calves are caught alive, by placing your hands over the eyes and blowing into the nostrils, in the course of a few minutes they will follow the man who performs this simple operation.
We landed for the night on an island so thick with underbrush that it was no easy matter to walk through; perhaps a hundred Buffalo calves were dead in it, and the smell was not pleasant, as you may imagine.
The calves were not out of the stable, and while waiting I measured the Elk horns given me by Mr. Picotte.
Because," says the traveller, "that accounts for the calves of your legs coming down to feed on it.
When the moon has climbed the mountains and the stars are shining bright, Then we saddle up our horses and away, And we yard the squatters’ cattle in the darkness of the night, And we have the calves all branded by the day.
That they shuffled wearily down that hill with poor cows and unweaned calves straggling miserably behind the main body in "the drag herd," proved how well the boys had done the work which he had sent them out at daylight to do.
He saw the riders go out with the wagons to gather the lank-bodied, big-kneed calves and set upon them the searing mark of their owner's iron.
Meanwhile other cow-punchers are rushing calves to the branding.
The time of the calf round-up was in the spring after the grass had become good and after the calves had grown large enough for the branding.
When the cow-puncher went into the herd to cut out calves he mounted a fresh horse, and every few hours he again changed horses, for there was no horse which could long endure the fatigue of the rapid and intense work of cutting.
The two ranches reported a few over fifteen thousand calves branded that fall.
This rule had gone into effect the fall previous, and I now proposed to run it on all calves branded.
Calves were dropping at the rate of one hundred a day, two camps of five men each held them on an ample range, riding lines well back from the valley.
Had I been ambitious, double that number could have been easily secured, but we never went off the home range in gathering calves to brand.
Calves were dropping at an alarming rate, fully twenty of them were in the wagon, their advent delaying the progress of the herd.
The cattle had located nicely, two large corrals had been built on each river, and the calveswere as thrifty as weeds.
A trusty man was accordingly sent from my ranch to assist in the gathering of each of the four outside brands, to be present at all round-ups, to see that no steer cattle were held back, and that the dropping calves were cared for and saved.
My elder brother and I early developed business instincts, buying calves and accompanying our father on his trading expeditions.
I was branding twenty thousand calves a year on my two ranches, holding the increase down to that number by sending she stuff up the country on sale, and from half a dozen sources of income I was coining money beyond human need or necessity.
It was fairly dotted with my own cattle; month-old calves were playing in groups, while my horse frequently shied at new-born ones, lying like fawns in the tall grass.
My ranch had branded over eight thousand calves that fall, and as long as it remained an open range I had room for my holdings of cattle.
My ranch hands had branded thirty-one hundred calves the fall before, and while riding over the range I was delighted to see so many young steers in my different brands.
The proof of guilt was before the Two Diamond men, in the shape of several calves in the small corral that still bore the Two Diamond brand.
We're twenty calves an' a dozen cows short on the tally!
There was twenty calves an' a dozen cows in a corral.
Not even the wildest stretch of the imagination could produce twenty calves from half a dozen cows.
One afternoon, in the early spring, they were returning from a testing of calves in the Marquis' pasture.
Out of every ten calves eight or nine were only good for meat, after being tested for their temper.
The calves I had reared died one by one, and the cows followed in their footsteps.
One of my half-starved poddy calves was very ill, and I went out to doctor it previous to bathing and tidying myself for my finishing household duties.
He had become so hard up that to pay the drovers in his last venture he was forced to sell the calves of the few milch-cows retained for household uses.
I can feed calves and milk and grind out my days here just as well vulgar as unvulgar," I answered savagely.
I had to feed thirty calvesand wash the breakfast dishes.
What really became of thosecalves remains a mystery.
Dell and Charlie can take one of the canoes, with the calves in it, and make straight for Milford by the shortest cut.
The herd is soon seen and ridden round, and a close lookout is kept to see if any stragglers have joined the band, and if the calves and yearlings are all right.
Half of them will not even take the trouble to have butter, letting the calves get all the milk, but just a little for the meals.
It is generally two-year-old cattle which partake and sicken--perhaps the calves have not enterprise enough, and the older cattle too much sense.
They were the eyes of dead elks shot years ago, calves bereft of their mothers.
Gaupa’s calves grew full of small bulbs under his skin from varicose veins.
Gaupa had heard such calvesin distress call often enough, but the cry from the Black Mountain that night made him shiver.
Well, well, you know those calves and those knees had been through some hard work in his life.
Illustration] Even the elk oxen with their seven-tined antlers, who scrub the young trees in Ré Valley, were once young calves like this.
That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; 5.
Lambs out of the flock' and 'calves out of the stall' seem to mean animals too young to be used as food.
Whether Baals or calves were set beside God, He was equally deposed.
Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto Him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calvesof our lips.
Perhaps the Septuagint rendering of that difficult phrase 'the calves of our lips,' which is given in Hebrews xiii.
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
But unto you that fear My Name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up ascalves of the stall.
The calves and the monarchy stood or fell together.
But when he was about a week old his mother allowed him to accompany her to the river, where he met other calvesand their dams.
There were many men at the work, and after all the cows and calves had been cut into a separate herd, the other cattle were turned loose.
Other cows, also, brought their calves up to the same place, and he had numerous playmates in his gambols on the hillsides.
Didn't I notice some young calves among your cattle this morning?
Among the other calves was a speckled heifer, whose dam was a great crony of his own mother.
Skinner ground his teeth; the tendons in his calves stood out rigidly.
If you call taking her out to watch a lot of bellowing calves get branded, entertainment," Miss Chapin sighed.
In France, a law exists to prevent the slaughtering ofcalves under six weeks of age.
The mode of feeding them is very simple; milk is the chief article of their diet, and of this the calves require a sufficient supply from first to last.
Usually, however, the calves are not kept beyond the age of 6 weeks, and will then sell for 5 or 6 pounds each: the milk of the cow is then ready for a successor.
In this manner one by one the whole family are to be fed three times a day; care being taken, that new-born calves are not, at first, fed on milk from a cow who has some days calved.
The Essex farmers have obtained a celebrity for fattening calves better than any others in England, where they are plentifully supplied with milk, a thing impossible to be done in the immediate neighbourhood of London.
In this manner a relay of calves may be prepared for the markets from early spring to the end of summer, a plan more advantageous than that of overfeeding one to a useless degree of corpulency.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
