She pretended not to see him until they were abreast, and the heifers were going into the yard.
He saw Kate coming down the glen road, driving two heifers with a cushag for switch and flashing its gold at them in the horizontal gleams of sunset.
I have ordered the heifers and young cows to be placed in this yard.
There goes the best lot of heifers this day in the country,’ said the old man, ‘let the others be where they may.
He told me that Mr. O’Desmond had a hundred young cows and heifers for sale.
To Master Gordon I said one morning as we watched a company of dun heifers mid-way on the loch, "This is an ill omen or I'm sore mistaken.
If I remember rightly, the excuse for the visit was that Umbezi had some of a certain rare breed of white cattle whereof the prince wished to secure young bulls and heifers to improve his herd.
Still, it must be remembered that they are all ugly down here in Zululand, cows, or heifers who will be cows.
Panda made a motion with his hand, and ten fine heifers were driven into the circle from some place where they had been kept in waiting.
Oh the tusks of yellow ivory--the frasilas of beads - And, best of all, the heifers that the marriageable needs!
We passed two more dead heiferswithin a few miles of the river bank, and there were other signs that for all our long sleep we were gaining on them.
In this association the Crane learned the duties of cowherd, so that one evening he brought home the whole of the village herd of heifers unaided and drove them into the stable.
On one occasion the Crane went back, drove up some lagging heifers through the street and then frightened them so much that they broke away and ran two miles in the wrong direction.
Now saddle your horses and out on the peaks To see if the heifers are out on the creeks.
I moved away from that there fence, for she had a stick to drive them heifers with.
On the second night he broke through and jumped over Reid's fences, and destroyed about an acre of grape-vines and adulterated Reid's stock, besides interfering with certain heifers which were not of a marriageable age.
Before we noticed what they were doing, the bark from twenty or more young maples, elms and other trees had been gnawed and stripped off as high as the heifers could reach.
One morning, while I was looking for a range on the north fork of the Platte, Major Hunter sold my seven thousand heifers at twenty-five dollars around, commanding two dollars and a half a head over steers of the same age.
The steer herd was held down to thirty-two hundred, both it and the heifers moving out the same day, with a remnant of over a thousand three-year-old steers left over.
A courier arrived from the Double Mountain range and reported a second contingent of heifers ready, but that the steers would overrun for a wieldy herd.
On our arrival at the new ranch, the cows and heifers were scattered among the former herds, and both outfits started back, one to look after the Clear Fork and the other to bring through the last herd in stocking my new possessions.
Leaving one outfit to locate the cattle on the new range, the other two hastened back to the Clear Fork and gathered two herds, numbering thirty-five hundred each, of young cows and heifers from the ranch stock.
And have you no mind of my weight of passion, and the holy dispensation, and the drift of heifers I am giving, and the golden ring?
Strike him yourself, Michael James, or you'll lose my drift of heifers and my blue bull from Sneem.
Quickening" heiferswith a branch of rowan, 266 sq.
When calves come in the autumn, the heifers enter the first winter strong and vigorous.
The pastures for heifers should be abundant, or supplemented by soiling food where they are short.
This is specially necessary because the heifers will then be pregnant, and because of the burden thus put upon them in addition to that of growth, certain evils will follow.
Of what avail against that breeze, which the heifers inhale with delight, is the "I will not" of a young man who feels his youth?
The mares and heifers know them and are clever in avoiding them, but now and then one of them falls in, and now and then a man as well.
Fire is brought forth from the innermost sanctuary and the Magi sacrificeheifers according to the Chaldean ritual.
Hast thou once more compelled the Thunderer to low among the heifers of Sidon?
The youths hastened to do her bidding; but, although they searched diligently, the heiferscould not be found.
The way was long and dusty: so the aged woman, who could no longer walk such a distance, bade her sons, Cleobis and Biton, harness her white heifers to her car.
The Kelso heifers were very superior, and "Quadrona" gained the first prize at Smithfield in the female polled class.
I speak on the supposition that cows and heifers are bought, but the majority should be heifers.
Mr Stronach crossed the yellow Highland cows and heifers with shorthorn bulls, and the result was very successful.
I was led to this practice by observing that cows or heifers that had run on the whole season up to the time of exhibition, when put to the bull on their arrival from the show, were got in calf at once.
I had six heifers bulled when they were one year old.
By this treatment the heifers will just be fresh, and will stand to the bull as readily as yearlings.
Aberdeen and Angus, I would say that heifers should never be put to the bull before they are two years old.
It is only throwing away your means to give high-bred cows with calf, or heifers rising two years old, a full supply of turnips.
I would recommend, when cows and heifers are not standing to the bull, to give a dose or two of medicine.
He ought to select the best heifers or cows (duly informing himself as to their breeding) from the different districts I have named.
In some seasons, although the cows and heifers are in a breeding state, it is, even with the best management, difficult to get them in calf.
The cows he buys will give milk to the house, and the two-year-old heifers will be easily kept on.
I have made a vow also to Mercury, that if he helps me to find the maiden, I will sacrifice to him two heifersof the same size and color and will gild their horns.
But if thou hast done so for the two white yearling heifers with gilded horns, I know thee not.
The sprinkled salt, the votive meal, As soon their favour will regain, Let but the hand be pure and leal, As all the pomp of heifers slain.
He bids the crystal fountains flow, And cheer the vallies as they go; Tame heifers there their thirst allay, And for the stream wild asses bray.
No blood of goats, nor heifers slain, For sin could e'er atone; The death of Christ shall still remain Sufficient and alone.
Do this, and we will sacrifice twelve heifers that have never yet known the goad, in your temple, if you will have pity upon the town, with the wives and little ones of the Trojans.
Did not Hector burn you thigh-bones of heifers and of unblemished goats?
Yet, when to my sorrow I was coming hither, I never let my ship pass your altars without offering the fat and thigh-bones of heifers upon every one of them, so eager was I to sack the city of Troy.
He will set his heart upon turning his furrows, his wakefulness is to give his heifers their fodder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heifers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
