Among the modern Malays avoidance of the flesh of swine and of contact with anything connected with the unclean animal is, of course, universal.
A further tradition is, that several men were changed into swine for disbelieving this miracle, and attributing it to magic art; or, as others pretend, for stealing some of the victuals from off it.
Wild swine come all too close to the cornfield in autumn, and in slaying of these the Lesghian not only protects his harvest, but obtains leather of the best quality for his mocassins.
I heard too, to-day, a quaint superstition about the common bracken, which abounds here, and on the roots of which the swine feed when there are no chestnuts or berries to be had.
It is difficult to believe how wild swine swarm in some parts of this coast, warrening the bushes with their runs, and covering every marshy place with their bathing-holes.
One day, after twelve hours’ spent in the usual stalking, Stepan and I perched ourselves like ungainly birds each in a tree above a hole full of mud and water, in which herds of swine wallowed nightly.
Twice I heard swine close to me, and both my men saw game again during the afternoon; but the covert was so dense that we none of us got another shot, and, what was worse, all lost our way.
Moreover, fever demoralises the workmen, and the wild swine devastate the crops.
As regards the allied genus Trichocephalus, the common species infesting swine (T.
He remarks that in swine these parasites are more abundant than measles.
Hitherto, Trichina has not been observed in our British-fed swine in more than one or two, or possibly three instances.
Parasites which prove fatal to swine are scarcely likely to be harmless in birds.
Was it a knowledge of the parasitic diseases of swine and man that led Moses to condemn pork as human food?
As regards home-reared animals, Professor Gamgee cogently remarked: “It is interesting to observe that parasitic maladies in the pig specially abound in that section of the United Kingdom where swine live most amongst human beings.
One individual suffering from tapeworm may infect a whole neighbourhood by rendering the swine measly, these animals, in their turn, spreading the disease far and wide.
Of the remaining nematodes infesting swine I must particularly mention Sclerostoma (Strongylus) dentatum and Strongylus paradoxus, the last named being generally regarded as identical with Dujardin’s S.
Fletcher brought the matter under the notice of the United States National Swine Breeder’s Association, which met at Indianapolis in November, 1872, but with what success I have been unable to learn.
One of the most interesting parasites of swine is the large acanthocephalous entozoon (Echinorhynchus gigas).
Or you may say, supposing that in future our British swine are not as free from Trichinæ as they have been hitherto, can we possibly avoid the contingency of playing the part of host to those creatures?
Note on the frequency of Acephalocysts inSwine at Cincinnati,” in his ‘Elements of Path.
It may likewise injure us by rendering the flesh of swine unwholesome.
The parasite was so abundant in swine that he obtained it in “nine out of ten hogs” which he had examined.
A novice had to undergo a year's probation, doing degrading work, such as keeping swine and daily cleaning out the pigsty with bare hands.
The steep place where the herd of swine ran down into the Sea of Tiberias is judged to be at Kersa, directly opposite to Magdala.
History of the Church and Priory of Swine in Holderness (1824).
What above all did the Prioress of Swine do with all those costly fur trimmings left her by the Bishop of Durham?
They were given in dowries, bequeathed to abbeys and monasteries, together with the land on which the swine fed.
To complete this web of proof it may be noted that an old writer has called the mandrake the plant of Circe, the sorceress who turned men into swine by a magic draught.
And this is ever the lot of the teacher of the Truth who scatters the sacred pearls of Truth before the swine of the unworthy multitude of people.
The Gospel narrative is perfectly plain on this subject--it states that the legions of devils had passed from the men into the swineand the latter had plunged in terror into the water and were drowned.
In a few moments, a cry was heard from the hills near by, and a great herd of swine were seen rushing down the hill, and in a moment were over the precipice and were soon drowned.
If a man was found burning a tree in a forest, he was obliged to pay a fine of sixty shillings, in order to protect the forest; or if he cut down a tree under which thirty swine might stand, he was obliged to pay a fine of sixty shillings.
When the Butcher thrusts the knife the swine dies.
The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.
Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics.
Instead, the folk were salting down beef and fish and pork--particularly pork, from the herds of swine that roamed the woods feeding on the acorns and beech mast.
And the swine will be subdued, the thinker will triumph.
Compare even Duerer's magnificent head of Willibald Pirkheimer: how the swine nature is blended with the thinker.
So the King goes to work upon Denewulf under the oak trees, when the swine will let him, and is well satisfied with the results of his teaching and the progress of his pupil.
I'm not such an entire swine to the people that know me best--that jackass, Presley, for instance.
The swine told me that it wouldn't be fair to discriminate in favour of one man, and that the cut must apply to all their employees alike.
And I got to be out in it," fumed Annixter, "and I suppose those swinewill quit work on the big barn now.
In the Anglo-Saxon period, vast herds of swine were tended by men, who watched over their safety, and who collected them under shelter at night.
Jesus was in Galilee, and the devils, cast out of the two men, were permitted to enter the herd of swine that were feeding on the hills in the neighbourhood of the Sea of Tiberias, it is very evident they did.
As soon as the swine reached it they surrounded it with one accord, when, suddenly and instantaneously, as the wolf attempted to leap over them, they got him down and destroyed him in a moment.
Schmarda recounts an almost similar encounter between a herd of tame swine and a wolf, which he witnessed on the military positions of Croatia.
So I'm to be a mean swab and a real swine when I'm rich," said Geordie.
For owing to the populousness and wealth of the country, the droves of swine in Italy are exceedingly large, especially along the sea coast of the Tuscans and Gauls: for one sow will bring up a thousand pigs, or sometimes even more.
But in Greece, when the swine get mixed up in the oak forests in their search for the mast, the swineherd who has most assistants and the best help at his disposal, when collecting his own animals, drives off his neighbour’s also.
A rich man named Milcho brought him to Ireland and employed him to herd sheep and swine in County Antrim.
Others, again, will be upon our side, from hatred to the Scotch, and disgust at the swine that Scotland has sent us.
That will do," she said; "and I do not see why your affection should be barred by the swine King we have now upon the throne.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
