They came, too, and Herr Carovius had to pay for the meat.
But he did not tell her that he was going to Nuremberg.
He liked them because they came promptly every morning and went away every evening tired as tired could be, and because day after day, year in and year out, they sat there and wrote, wrote, wrote.
The next week whole train-loads of pigs were coming to Chicago consigned to Nelson Morris.
The old way gave them no time to themselves--there was the cow to milk, the pigs and poultry to care for, or the garden making insistent demands.
Lots of bulls with horns are being born, Large buffaloes are standing, New milk and cream will be made by steam, And in Ireland pigs are lambing.
The poor cows and horses will welcome the change, And pigs with their bristles on freely will range, No more county crops for the women in jails, Nor donkeys lamenting the loss of their tails.
On this day also many Hungarian swineherds make fire by rotating a wheel round a wooden axle wrapt in hemp, and through the fire thus made they drive their pigsto preserve them from sickness.
The pinch of hunger sometimes drives individuals to eat up the rice of these two sheaves, but the wretches who do so are viewed with disgust by their fellows and branded as pigs and dogs.
But at a yell from the high priest the counterfeit dead men started to their feet and ran down to the river to cleanse themselves from the blood and guts of pigswith which they were beslobbered.
Hence at the festival of the Thesmophoria they were thrown, along with pigsand other agents or emblems of fecundity, into the sacred vaults of Demeter for the purpose of quickening the ground and the wombs of women.
Their notion is that the souls of the dead deer and pigs tarry near their jawbones and attract the souls of living deer and pigs, which are thus drawn into the toils of the hunter.
Some people said this was because the pigs were unclean; others said it was because the pigs were sacred.
In the Poso district of Central Celebes hunters keep the jawbones of deer and wild pigs which they have killed and hang them up in their houses near the fire.
Yet once a year the Egyptians sacrificed pigs to the moon and to Osiris, and not only sacrificed them, but ate of their flesh, though on any other day of the year they would neither sacrifice them nor taste of their flesh.
We have seen that many Hungarian swine-herds make fire on Midsummer Eve by rotating a wheel round a wooden axle wrapt in hemp, and that they drive their pigs through the fire thus made.
In these caverns or vaults there were said to be serpents, which guarded the caverns and consumed most of the flesh of the pigs and dough-cakes which were thrown in.
He must have been a coarse saint, patron of pigs as he was, but I don't know any one anywhere, or the homely stone image of one, so loved by the people.
On his day the pigs are brought into the public square to be blessed; and this is one reason why the pork of Sorrento is reputed so sweet and wholesome.
It was the easiest garden to keep the neighbor's pigs and hens out of I ever saw.
Think of the condition of Oxford when pigs went to mass!
It is singular, however, that those who hold up the pigs as models to us never hold us up as models to the pigs.
Turkeys for Thanksgiving, sucking pigs for Christmas, chickens for Easter, goose, she couldn't abide.
If they had been the foxes, maybe they wouldn't have thought it was so funny; but of course, people just couldn't have even theirpigs and lambs taken.
We didn't dare shake the tree, because the pigs ran on the other side of the fence, and they chanked up every peach that fell there.
The mean old things were paying up for the pigs and lambs now.
The swelled corn rolled in a little trail after her, and the pigs ran up and began to eat it.
For a list of Roman pigs found in England, see ibid.
The lead mines of Britain were worked by the Romans from the earliest days of their occupation of the island, pigs of lead having been found in the Mendips stamped with the titles of Britannicus (A.
He had instructions to stop the stream of guinea-pigs at all hazards.
He worked with feverish intensity when out on his rounds, for the pigs required attention and took most of his time.
He stated his case clearly, and gave his arguments in full, quoting a page or two from the encyclopedia to prove that guinea-pigs were not common pigs.
Guinea-pigs, or dago pigs or Irish pigs is all the same to the Interurban Express Company an' to Mike Flannery.
Wan thing I do know, howiver, which is they've glorious appytites for pigs of their soize.
The pigs had been transferred to a larger box--a dry goods box.
He had four thousand and sixty-four guinea-pigs to care for!
Twould be the same was they Dutch pigs or Rooshun pigs.
Why do I say dago pigs is pigs because they is pigs and will be til you say they ain't which is what the rule book says stop your jollying me you know it as well as I do.
Wan wagonload more an, I'll be quit of thim, an' niver will ye catch Flannery wid no more foreign pigs on his hands.
In it two spotted guinea-pigs were greedily eating lettuce leaves.
Department, subject rate on guinea-pigs from Franklin to Westcote, ree'd.
The pigs had all the rest of the room and two boys were employed constantly attending to them.
At the end of the week they had shipped two hundred and eighty cases of guinea-pigs, and there were in the express office seven hundred and four more pigs than when they began packing them.
Hang it up to dry in a clean place, and be sure no other Guinea-pigs or Tadpoles come near it.
Why did the Guinea-pigs and Tadpoles strut about and crack their vulgar jokes right under his very nose, as if he was nobody?
At five o'clock Stephen's fight with Bramble came off as usual, and all that evening Guinea-pigs and Tadpoles did nothing but make paper darts.
He never said in so many words he was grateful; but then the Guinea-pigs remembered that feelings are often too deep and too many for words, and so took for granted the thanks which their consciences told them they deserved.
Take that, and tell all the little Pigs outside that if they don't hold their noise they will find themselves, every man jack of them, mentioned by name in the next number!
But their rage was as nothing to that of the Guinea-pigs and Tadpoles.
The Guinea-pigs should never charge him with treachery and desertion, and what he had gone through already in the "good cause" he would go through again.
This paragraph so grievously incensed the honourable community at which it was directed, that for the first time for some months Guinea-pigs and Tadpoles made common cause to protest against the base insinuations it contained.
The Guinea-pigs and Tadpoles were equally taken aback by the new aspect of affairs.
The Guinea-pigs assembled in force, with blackened faces and false whiskers.
Of course the report of the new state of affairs soon penetrated down to the lower school, and the Guinea-pigs and Tadpoles at any rate were not slow in making up their minds on the burning question.
But to leave his post as watchman was not to be thought of just now, for the pigs and the goats were out to-day.
The pigs began to lag behind, trying to branch off at every side path so as to get a little nap in the shade or cool themselves in a mudhole.
The goats sprang together in a clump and raised their ears; the pigs stopped in the very midst of their scratching to listen.
He glanced up the road occasionally as if to see whether any one was coming, so that the pigs and goats might not think they had the whole of his attention.
The negroes raised their own yams and other vegetables, and doubtless pigs and poultry as well; and plantains were likely to be plentiful.
They imagined that he had been taken up into heaven, with only his heels left as a monument for his faithful adherents, who visit them with great veneration, and condemn eating pork, because pigs consumed their lord with their bites.
Though he had no wish to interfere with the tiger-cat, he had a great fancy for catching some of the pigs which scampered about beneath the trees, picking up fruits and nuts, and digging for roots.
He came and taunted me, and would have left me to die in a wretched cave by myself, while he was living luxuriously on birds, deer, and pigs that he killed.
In Stoney Street there stands the swine, Both right and left all in a line; They sell thesepigs so much per score, So on that street I'll say no more.
Doubtless, too, he approves of some of those high in authority keeping pigs in such a condition that the filth from their styes should drain into his neighbour's sitting or bed room.
William Allen had come to buy four little pigs to take the places of four who have now grown large at our farm, and are to be fatted and killed within a few weeks.
But the hens will be glad of our superfluity, and so will the pigs, though we have neither hens nor pigs of our own.
Most or many of these pigs had been imported from the State of New York.
Frequently we passed people with cows, oxen, sheep, or pigsfor Brighton Fair.
Several long deep gashes on one of the pigs showed where a panther had thrust in his paw by a crack and tried to seize a victim.
The pigsrushed quickly up the stairs, and soon returned, bringing a pair of cocoanut shells lined with leather, which the old woman put on.
Just now I should have been willing to swear that I was a mean little squirrel, the companion of Guinea-pigs and other low creatures, and from them exalted to be a great cook!
While he was swallowing the last drops from the bowl, the Guinea-pigs burned some Arabic incense, the blue smoke of which swept through the room.
Pigs of the Sus Indica type are best known to Englishmen under the form of the Chinese breed.
Labat (quoted by Roulin); but this author attributes the state of these pigs to descent from a domestic stock which he saw in Spain.
Mr. Crawfurd informs me that the same fact holds good with the wild pigs of the Malay peninsula.
Seeing how different the Chinese pigs, belonging to the Sus Indica type, are in their osteological characters and in external {71} appearance from the pigs of the S.
In Jamaica the feral pigsdo not acquire the full size of the European wild boar, "never attaining a greater height than 20 inches at the shoulder.
With respect to colour, feral pigs generally revert to that of the wild boar; but in certain parts of S.
He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those.
The inside is lined with fire-brick covered with metallic ore and slag over the bottom and sides, and then, the oven being charged with the pigs of iron, the heat is let on.
Oh, yes," exclaimed the impressible Fritz Schmidt, "we have a few things besides pigs and potatoes.
There were a few calves and pigs to sell occasionally; she thought possibly he saved his share from them.
She found him leaning on the pig pen watching pigs grow into money, one of his most favoured occupations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pigs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
