Once when Old Monte brings the stage in late because of some boggin' down he does over at a quicksand ford in the foothills, a shorthorn who arrives with him as a passenger comes edgin' into the Red Light.
The shorthorn allows it is, an' surveys Dave in a woozy way like he ain't informed none of the meanin' of these yere manoovers.
Which I performs said equestrianisms to amoose that she-shorthorn who is cussin' us out.
It must be some oldshorthorn of a Mohave you downs.
It shore looks like that failin' shorthorn is goin' to quit winner, them recooperatifs.
Now, right thar is whar this yere shorthorn wants to maintain his presence of mind.
Mr. Aylmer was a noted shorthorn breeder, and his herd was one of the most famous in the country.
The first biennial sale of shorthorn cattle and Southdown sheep, the property of the Prince of Wales, took place at Wolferton.
A great sale of shorthorn cattle and Southdown sheep, the property of the Prince of Wales, was conducted at Sandringham by Mr. John Thornton.
Jest thirty Shorthorn yearlings," he said without any attempt to soften the blow.
During the past year (1905) foreign buyers have been giving very high prices for Shorthorn cattle, and if they would buy in the same spirited manner at the Shire sales, a much more creditable animal could be obtained for shipment.
They wanted good shorthorn cattle--he sold them cattle; they wanted sheep--he sold them sheep.
The cows now kept are much too valuable to be treated roughly, being selected from shorthorn strains that yield large quantities of milk.
Substantial buildings were erected for the shorthorn cattle.
This was shown at the great sale ofShorthorn cattle and Southdown sheep which the Prince held at Sandringham, at the time of the Royal Agricultural Show at Norwich, in July 1886.
She certainly is the smallest of all as the Dutch-Friesian is the largest--unless we except the Shorthornand Hereford.
Allen, former editor of the Shorthorn Herd-Book, and author of a work on cattle that stands second to none as authority.
He bought the celebrated bull "Jerry" from the late Mr John Rennie of Phantassie; and he was the firstshorthorn that crossed the Dee.
Mr Stronach crossed the yellow Highland cows and heifers with shorthorn bulls, and the result was very successful.
Say, boys, did you get onto the pisano-looking shorthorn at Willets last week?
The so-called improvement of our Shorthorn cattle, pigeons, etc.
Some years later I visited Shipston-on-Stour with two friends to attend a shorthorn sale in that neighbourhood.
The Vale of Evesham is particularly suitable for pedigree shorthorn breeding, as the soil and climate are very favourable for their production according to exhibition type.
Thar's a shorthorn over thar, him who keeps books for the Wells-Fargo folks, who's edyoocated to a razor edge.
The aged Eastern shorthorn goes rockin' up to the counter, an' p'litely lets on to Black Jack that he'll licker.
That shorthorn Oscar comes lurchin' in, an' asks for nosepaint.
The feeble young shorthorn smiles a puny smile, and don't lunge forth into no more queries.
Alderman Mechi states that in July, 1864, ten out of his thirty Shorthorn calves died in consequence of eating the heads of Italian rye-grass, and that the survivors' health was seriously injured.
The bull Hubback is said by many writers to have been the great improver of Shorthorn blood.
In many respects the good points in a Shorthorn cow resemble those in the male of that breed, but in others there is considerable difference.
I generally breed from cross cows (the same as mentioned above), served by a pure Shorthorn bull.
There are excellent crosses betweenShorthorn bulls and Highland cows.
Jerry kicking the Colonel with caption: "That he'pless shorthorn stops both heels.
We-alls will come handy to pull Jaybird an' this shorthorn apart if they gets their horns locked in the course of them gaities.
He rides up close to this he'pless shorthorn as he lays asleep, an' tosses a loop of his wet rawhide across his countenance where it's turned up in the moonlight.
While that Colonel tenderfoot is a rod away, Jerry turns his tail some sudden in his direction, an' the next instant that he'pless shorthorn stops both heels some'ers about the second button of his shirt.
This is what that shorthorn does which teaches me he's learnin'.
Let the shorthorn go sleep onder a mesquite-bush; it'll do him good a whole lot.
Youatt has remarked that at the present day, whenever cattle of the shorthorn breed are white, the extremities of their ears are more or less tinged with red.
Why have pedigrees been scrupulously kept and published of the Shorthorn cattle, and more recently of the Hereford breed?
But they were many, and we fled before them with our shorthorn cattle, our goats, and our barleyseed, our women and children.
There was a woman--on the great drift down out of Europe, a weary drift of many generations, when we brought into India the shorthorn cattle and the planting of barley.
She metes out the worst of it to that long-sufferin' shorthorn at every bend in the trail; it looks like he never wins a good word or a soft look from her once.
I casts my gaze r'arward I identifies myse'f as the balmiest brand of shorthorn who ever leaves his parents' shelterin' roof.
Does you-all recall the fate, Shoestring, of the last misguided shorthorn who gives way to sech a query?
The shorthorn was a favorite and, as befitted her good blood, carried across her dewlap the string of silver sleigh-bells that in wintertime tinkled before the pung.
And as she headed them out, riding her pony at full gallop, she saw a fine shorthorn suddenly pitch forward with a bellow and fall.
Shorthorn cattle and of the English horse, in comparison, for example, with the unennobled cattle of Hungary, or with the horses of the Asiatic steppes.
I give this on the authority of Nathusius 'Ueber Shorthorn Rindvieh' 1857 s.
Wright on Shorthorn Cattle in 'Journal of Royal Agricult.
With SHEEP there has often been long-continued interbreeding within the limits of the same flock; but whether the nearest relations have been matched so frequently as in the case of Shorthorn cattle, I do not know.
Beasley, of Northamptonshire,[92] crossed some carefully selected West Highland cows with purely-bred shorthorn bulls.
With Sheep there has often been long-continued interbreeding within the limits of the same flock; but whether the nearest relations have been matched so frequently as in the case of Shorthorn cattle, I do not know.
The famous bull Favourite is believed[139] to have had a prepotent influence on the shorthorn race.
Wright on Shorthorn Cattle, in 'Journal of Royal Agricult.
Those farmers who raise good grade Shorthorn or Devon cattle are not the men to sell them half-fat at low rates.
He keeps good teams, and good plows, and good harrows, and good rollers, and good cultivators, and good grade Shorthorn cows.
During the past fourteen years Mr. Leonard has specialized in the breeding of registered thoroughbred shorthorn cattle and now has more than eighty head that are registered or eligible to registry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shorthorn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
