SCALD four tails and five ears very clean, and braise them in a pint of veal stock.
CUT the tails into joints, and blanch and wash them; then braise them till tender, drain them dry, and serve them up with haricot sauce over.
Or the tails and ears may be stewed in a little stock till tender; then add a leason of eggs and cream, and serve them up with twelve heads of large asparagus cut three inches long, boiled till done, and put over plain.
TAKE four beef tails cut into joints, bouille beef two pieces about a quarter of a pound each, and two pieces of pickle pork of the same weight.
When the tails are half done, take them out, egg and breadcrumb them over, and broil them gently.
Then cut the tails into halves, put them into the center of a dish with the red side upwards, and the meat of the claws whole.
Their tails were fluffy enough by this time to be of use in balancing.
They wound their tails about the branches above to hold more securely.
Then they cuddled together on her back, with their tails twisted around hers.
Ever since they were tiny babies, with their new red fur, they always helped one another with washing their faces and combing their tails with their claws.
There they lay, with their eyes shut, their paws limber, their tails limp.
They slept with their warm tails wrapped over their noses.
They sat on the branches, with their bushy tails curving over their backs, and held the nuts in their fore paws to nibble.
The sheep are very large, and excellent mutton, having hair instead of wool, and greattails like those of Syria.
Their mutton also is excellent, their sheep having tails weighing 28 pounds each, which therefore are mostly cut off from the ewes, not to obstruct propagation.
They threw up rat-fur in the air; They piled up rat-tails everywhere; And slaughtered rats bestrewed the ground For ten or twenty miles around.
Not an inch of the statue but is Webster; even his coat-tails are imbued with the man, and this true artist has succeeded in showing him through the broadcloth as nature showed him.
The men wear fox-tails as ornaments to the head, and their long locks hang loose and dishevelled, far below the shoulders.
Our alpenstocks and muslin tails compelled attention, and as we moved through the village we gathered a considerable procession of little boys and girls, and so went in some state to the castle.
The plug hats were battered, the swallow-tails were fluttering rags, mud added no grace, the general effect was unpleasant and even disreputable.
However, tails are common to all animals, so I ventured to say: "And what a tail he had!
A negro with a thousand tails is a topic which a person cannot talk upon fluently and instructively without more or less preparation.
Only one head this time; But tails too many to count up in rhyme.
Of course, among the Foxes, ever after, Long tails continued very much in vogue.
Other muskrats now appeared, the wander-spirit seizing them all at once; and the males had many fierce fights, which left their naked tails scarred and bleeding.
They have a black line which runs through the eye; their upper parts are brown, their head is greenish, their tails gray.
In habit they are like the snipes; but their tails are shorter and thicker.
Their wing feathers are long, stiff and pointed, and their tails are long and forked.
The Terns, or Sea Swallows, are possessed of great power and endurance of flight, their long forked tails and pointed wings indicating strength and swiftness.
The hens, on the other hand, sit quietly on their twigs, their morsels of tails at an angle of about 45 degrees, their little beaks in the air, and their feathers all balled out to catch the sunshine.
They untied the rawhide strand and noticed that some of the buffalo tails were on the ends of the long rope which lay piled up high before them.
What could be more ugly than a coat with tails which reach nearly to a horse's hocks, and no front covering whatever to protect the knee in bad weather?
He could always make the calves move by twisting their tails, but the bullocks' tails were too strong.
On her freckled neck and arms were brown marks left by the cows' tails at the last milking, looking like a sort of clumsy tattooing.
If he wanted to, he could make them tear home to the stable in wild flight, with their tails in the air, on the coldest October day, only by lying down in the grass and imitating the hum of gad-flies.
Up above the clover-field stood the cows of Stone Farm in long rows, their heads hanging heavily down, and their tails swinging regularly.
All the four dogs rose from the hearthrug and wagged their tails solemnly in respectful greeting to her.
They strutted up and down, craning and bridling their bright-hued necks with a proud consciousness of absolute proprietorship in the place, and their long tails trailed across the gravel behind them with the soft rustle of a woman's garments.
The mere whisper of his name makes their wicked tails cold.
So I buttoned her into the breast of my overcoat, and Two Tails shuffled and stamped and growled to himself.
It is an order), said the camel with a gurgle; and Two Tails and the bullocks repeated, "Hukm hai!
Mowgli picked up some creepers and began to work them in and out, and the monkeys tried to imitate; but in a very few minutes they lost interest and began to pull their friends' tails or jump up and down on all fours, coughing.
She knew as well as I did that if there is one thing in the world the elephant is more afraid of than another it is a little barking dog; so she stopped to bully Two Tails in his pickets, and yapped round his big feet.
Now, if I had a full meal for every dog I've kicked across the parade-ground, I should be as fat as Two Tails nearly.
Seems to me," said Billy to the troop-horse, "that our friend Two Tailsis afraid of most things.
Do you gentlemen of the screw-gun battery feel inclined to eat when you are being fired at with big guns, and Two Tails is behind you?
Then the big guns came by, and I saw Two Tails and two other elephants harnessed in line to a forty-pounder siege-gun while twenty yoke of oxen walked behind.
To put all twenty yoke of us to the big gun as soon as Two Tails trumpets.
You'll understand better in a minute," said Two Tails angrily.
Two Tails stamped his foot till the iron ring on it jingled.
With a twist of the bullocks' tails to urge them forward, Yusuf Khan's two servants left their charges and scuttled into the woods.
The next day Jack was ordered to take the pigs to market to sell them, and after he had cut off all their tails he sold them and pocketed the money; and then he went to a marsh near the farm and planted all the tails in the marsh.
The pigs' tails incident is also very common and is indeed found in another set of tales, more of the Master Thief type.
He pulled and he pulled and he pulled, till at last he got away leaving three quarters of his tail in the ice, and that is why bears have such short tails up to the present day.
Usually, as soon as they came across it, they would growl, bristle up, and then retreat with their tails between their legs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tails" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blazer; coat; converse; formal; inverse; jacket; obverse; regalia; reverse
