Had he a regular establishment in the bush where his herds run, to milk the cows and make butter and cheese, it would not only, in my opinion, pay well for the trouble, but would make his cattle much less wild.
A few half-starved cows only, belonging to Sydney families, and called the town herd, may be seen picking up the poor and scanty herbage.
With the exception of some twenty cows and calves usually kept about the house, to give milk, which are called the milking herd, the grazier sees nothing of his herds but on muster-days, which occur twice a year.
Us li'l boogers have to run and keep de cows out de corn and de cotton patch.
When you gather a bunch of cattle to sell they calves, how the calves and cows will bawl, that the way the slaves was then.
He waked us up 'bout four in the mornin' to milk the cows and feed them hawgs.
That night the cows and calves got together and missy say it my fault.
We had good grub 'cause we raised all de co'n and de hogs and de cows and chickens and plenty of everything.
Dey had plenty of hosses and mules and cows on de ol' plantation.
We worked long as we could see, from four o'clock in the mornin', and them milked twenty cows and fed the work stock.
Massa have more'n 100 cows and most the time me and Violet do all the milkin'.
She milked all the cows two times a day and I had to turn out all de calves.
I was at work in the barnyard one day when two cows came up the road to the gate.
If we had slaves," they said, "we should not have to milk our cows or take care of our children.
Yes," said James, who was milking the cows, "all these stalls are wide enough for the cows and horses to lie down whenever they like.
Cows are often homesick in a new home with a strange master, and they grow to love those who are kind to them.
Some cows take cold easily, and should never be out in a long storm.
These tiny green cows fill themselves full of a sweet juice which they make from the plant-leaf.
I am ashamed to think that my cows had to go away from home to find water to drink,' he said.
So they keep herds of fat cattle and often mount guard round the branch or tree where theircows are feeding.
Many ants keep as cows the small green plant-lice on the rose-bushes.
Only last week he sent off a boy because he made the cows run on the way to the pasture.
They enjoy running water as much as the cows and horses do.
Cows need a variety in their food, and plenty of water to drink.
My cows never kick, but if you ever try to milk a cow that kicks, you must be very gentle with her.
During all the hot weather these cows came to me every day for water.
Deacon Baxter was taking hiscows to a pasture far over the hill, the feed having grown too short in his own fields.
Let's put one of the cows in the horse's stall and see what will happen!
And Margaret was so careful and so good at business that, in spite of her giving, she bought more cows and earned more money.
With this, she bought two cows and a little delivery cart.
The cliffs and the water approached and receded from each other; here and there, there was scarcely width enough for the cows to pass between them.
Apollo also gave Hermes charge over all the cows in the blue meadow.
As he lay there he could see a beautiful blue meadow with many white cowsupon it.
King Apollo soon missed thecows and searched all the meadow for them.
He was a wild youth and a great traveler, and so it happens that in nearly all the countries of the world Hermes and his white cows have been seen.
Apollo was angry and commanded him to stop laughing and crowing and tell him where the white cows were.
What fun," thought he, "I will go and make the cows run.
Hermes loved the cows and often took them with him on his journeys.
Hermes knew that the cows belonged to his brother, King Apollo.
Go back and latch the gate," was her constantly repeated order; "the cows might enter and injure the garden.
Cows do not eat cotton any more than they eat wool; but what bush is there at the North that they would not nibble if starving?
Starved cows passed through the half-plucked rows untempted, and I said to myself: "Of course.
This divinity is represented under the form of a woman, and, as the Greeks paint Io, with horns upon her head; for this reason the Egyptians venerate cows far beyond all other cattle.
The cows and flocks of thy province, put into safe keeping.
Dey eat all de chickens and kilt the cows and tuk de horses and we sho scairt out dar wid dem varmints roving roun.
The rebels have stole my masters cows and horses and we would have to hide the meat in a box and bury it in the ground.
Their masters gave them chickens, cows and other stock and gave them plenty to eat.
Let me see," he considered, "that fence is down on the upper side, and most likely those cows have made their way up the road.
I tried to follow the cows through the woods, but it got so dark that I was forced to give up the search.
Ladies think that cows will not graze within view of locomotive engines, and that the sudden and formidable appearance of them may be attended with premature consequences to bipeds as well as quadrupeds.
Our father took the lead, urging on before him the cows and horses, while he followed with the sheep, when his horse fell and he was thrown into a deep hole.
The sheep and cows were now collecting of their own accord in the garden, and we had to drive up the pigs, whose stye was threatened with submersion.
I have often had that sensation when reading novels I ought not to read, or when looking at a new-born calf, or seeing dogs and cows and horses mounting on each other.
Such symbolic transference seems to have a profoundly natural basis, for we may see a somewhat similar phenomenon in the well-known tendency of cows to mount a cow in heat.
Among the Tamils of Ceylon bestiality with goats and cows is said to be very prevalent.
He had repeatedly had connection with cows and mares; he was also sexually excited by sheep, donkeys, and dogs, whether female or male; the normal sexual instinct was weak and he experienced very slight attraction to women.
In winter the cows had hay, but in summer they didn't have hay, because they could eat the grass, and that was better.
The horses were in stalls, but the cows didn't have stalls.
And he came to the gate and he let the bars down at one end, and the cows stepped over the bars carefully, the leader first, and went into the field.
Then he shut the big doors of the barn and fastened them, and the cows lay down and went to sleep.
These dried stalks they call straw, and they put it for the horses and the cows and the oxen to sleep on.
When thecows came to the farm-house, they turned in at the gate and went up the little track to the cow-yard.
It was the same stream of water that ran on through the big field where the cows went to eat the grass, and then it ran on, under the road and through another field and into the river.
By the time the cows had eaten all the grass they wanted, it was hot out in the sun, and they all walked over to the big tree and got in the cool shade.
Not very far from that farm-house there was a field where the horses and cowsused to go to eat the grass.
So the cows stayed in the shade of the big tree until they were hungry again, and then they walked about and ate some more of the grass and drank some more water out of the little stream.
And when Uncle John wanted the cows or the horses to go through, he could take down the rails at any part of the fence.
And little John put the bars up again, so that the cows couldn't get out, and he turned around and ran back to the farm-house to get his breakfast.
And this last pile they gave to the horses and cows and oxen and pigs, and the apples in the barrels were to go to market, or for the people to eat.
In the corner of the barn next to the horses was the harness-room, and in the corner next to the cows was the milk-room.
The cows came home to be milked, and there seemed but few of them after the great procession at Monks Barton.
There is buttercup, so horribly acrid that cows carefully avoid it in their closest cropped pastures; and yet your cow is not usually a too dainty animal.
So the farmer crowds on all he can get till harvest and shearin’s past, then he pays off all hands, except an old crawler or two, to milk cows and draw wood and water.
The cows were eventually milked secundum artem, and when the full buckets, foaming over with creamy fluid, stood on a bench outside the yard, Wilfred saw with distinct gratification the first dividend from the cattle investment.
If we was to buy a mob of common cattle, they’d cost nothing to speak of; the bullocks soon fatten, and the cows would breed you up a fair mixed herd in no time.
Hamilton was wading through the yard behind about sixty cows and calves, which were stolidly ploughing through a lake of liquid mud.
Old Tom had his morning smoke while tracking the nightly wandering dairy cows long before that luminary concerned himself with the inhabitants of the district.
But if we had some one to go with these cows till the calves come, and that won’t be long, you and I could do what work I’ve chalked out.
But one morning Dick Evans came up to Wilfred, sadly contemplating the attenuated cows which now represented the once crowded milking-yard.
On the morning following Richard Evans’s departure, extra exertion was entailed upon Wilfred and Guy, as also upon Andrew Cargill, by reason of their having to divide the milking of his proportion of the cows among them.
It was decided that Guy was to ‘tail’ or herd the new cows at present.
All the dairy cows and heifers, and a few steers for fattening,’ answered Wilfred.
The pain, like much evil in this world, if intense, was brief; the cows cringed and showed disapproval, but soon appeared to forget.
The little humpback cows prance skittishly out of the paths; but the great buffaloes stand quite still and stare at us, then throw up their noses and sniff the air in an offended manner that in turn makes us afraid of them.
The cattle, which are mostly of a light brown color, are very large and fine; but it seems strange to us to see cows wearing the yoke.
These cows have very small horns, sometimes three or four inches long, but often mere little white buds coming out from their dark foreheads.
The oxen and cows that draw these carts have their bodies draped with coarse linen covers, and across their heads is a strip of sheep-skin, which is worn with the shaggy side out and the skinny side in.
Sometimes they have cut grass to eat, which has been brought from steep places on the hills to which the cows cannot go.
Only a few cows and bullocks are kept, and these are needed to plough the fields and turn the rude machinery of the sugar mills.
When, in our walks, we meet these cows they often exhibit fear, especially of foreign ladies and horses, sights with which they are not familiar.
But the cattle have decreased so much, that the ranches that had a thousand cows now have but the name of having been there.
Only the fathers of the Society, as in all districts, have the good fortune to preserve their estates, and maintain their cows in the said city; so that it may be said that they sustain the city, which nets them not a little gain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
