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Example sentences for "yearling"

Lexicographically close words:
yearelie; yearely; yearend; yeares; yearlie; yearlings; yearly; yearn; yearned; yearneth
  1. Czar to the owner of Pilawin, and a yearling calf born in the preserve.

  2. The man who kant find enny thing to do in this world, iz az bad oph az a yearling heffer.

  3. And after that there was nothing to do but wait in suspense and impatience for the momentous hours of evening, when the yearling class was to make one more effort to subdue "the B.

  4. Besides drilling with them, which he found harder work than digging trenches, he had to clean them daily; and cleaning a gun under the watchful eye of a merciless yearling proved to be a matter of weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  5. The yearling stared at the plebe in amazement; but Chauncey's politeness and urbanity were contagious, and Corporal Spencer could not help bowing, too.

  6. A tactical officer had been rigidly putting them through the manual of arms, with half a dozen yearling corporals and file closers aiding him.

  7. What did they want to be applauding that ugly old yearling for?

  8. Early that same morning, after having been spruced up and polished by his friends, he had turned out and received an elaborate set of instructions from a yearling corporal.

  9. It was known to the first class, and to the yearling enemies, and even to the plebes, who stared at him in awe and wondered where on earth he had gotten the "nerve" to dare to do what he had.

  10. Blushing scarlet, the yearling obeyed, conscious of the fact that hundreds of eyes were upon him.

  11. It certainly does seem," admitted the other, "that the yearling class has such an idea in mind.

  12. The whole yearling class knew of it a few moments later when the companies fell in for parade.

  13. The yearling class will be delighted to--ahem--welcome your two friends.

  14. Texas especially was twitching his fingers nervously and looking as if he were wishing for some yearling to tackle right then and there.

  15. This chapter would not be complete without a word--just a word--about three yearling friends of ours.

  16. Visions rose up before his delighted mind, visions of himself a hero like Mark, congratulated by all, even made a yearling as the cadets had hinted.

  17. Now it chanced that there was in one corner a yearling calf that had been killed that day, and hung up with a bar between its thighs.

  18. The head of the yearling calf was duly exhibited, when the neatness of the blow and the exactness of the aim at the weakest jointing were prodigiously admired.

  19. At length he found it, and went full cry across a yearling fall, which was everywhere very bare, except here and there an occasional patch of high strong grass.

  20. She had a large yearling calf with her, and Evans told me that the attachment of a cow to her first calf is sometimes so great that she will kill her second that the first may have the milk.

  21. Again, the number of yearling male lambs required would depend on the number who partook of the feast.

  22. First the Day, bringing duty and privilege, is to have its morning burnt offering of a yearling lamb, by which the Divine blessing is invoked on the labour and life of the whole people.

  23. They stared at him, quite unalarmed, and, determining to add the yearling to his bag, Rolf went back quietly to his bow and arrows.

  24. As he arose, he found himself face to face with a doe and a fat, little yearling buck, only twenty yards away.

  25. The yearling was undoubtedly the doe's fawn of the year before.

  26. I gave the yearling the contents of the other barrel.

  27. I had barely got fixed in shape to begin to watch when I chanced to look towards a small ravine that came down from the hill a few yards to my left and saw what I took to be a black yearling steer.

  28. When the gun cracked out jumped a yearling buck that was lying down just in the edge of the jam and bounded over the trunk of a large birch and stopped broadside to me and I let him down.

  29. We got down from our perches and dragged the deer (a yearling buck) out away from the lick, removed the entrails and Bill made a knapsack of the carcass and started for camp.

  30. So he turned back and got there just in time so as not to frighten the bear away, as well as to shoot it, which was a yearling and weighed about 125 pounds, with a fine pelt.

  31. I will tell of a little scrape I had one day with a yearling buck that I thought to be dead.

  32. I thought right, for when Bill touched the trigger and his gun spoke, I saw two yearling deer jump into sight and my gun came to my shoulder from habit, but there was no need to shoot.

  33. The three remaining deer made a few jumps in my direction and stopped and looked back, which gave me a good shot at a yearling buck, which also went down in my sight.

  34. I had only just got to camp when I heard a gun shot away up the creek, and in about an hour Charley came dragging a yearling deer.

  35. The deer finally worked up in gun shot, and they proved to be an old doe, a yearling and the doe's fawn.

  36. The general supposition was that they had been killed, but when spring came the doe and the white fawn (now a yearling deer) again appeared on its old haunts of the year before.

  37. The yearling and the fawn only took a few jumps when the gun cracked and the doe went down, and stood looking at the old lady to see what had happened to her.

  38. A fawn and a yearling that had died in February 1969 from unknown causes also had fat-depleted, marrow.

  39. Further, one fawn had only a few pounds of flesh eaten, a yearling doe was half eaten, and another fawn was about 75 percent eaten.

  40. That lame yearling is going to spell her finish, if Old Hank here has his way.

  41. Throwing himself from his saddle he bent down over the remains of the yearling that had been so unfortunate as to become lame, and thus, lagging far behind the rest of the herd, fallen a victim to the wolf pack.

  42. No, I swan if it ain't a yearling as has been pulled down now.

  43. One day, during my yearling camp, when I happened to be on guard, a photographer, wishing a view of the guard, obtained permission to make the necessary negative.

  44. Still first-classmen do have many duties to perform, but there is withal one consolation at least, there are no upper classmen to keep the plebe or yearling in his place.

  45. Another delight of the yearling is to "bone colors.

  46. IN this chapter I shall describe only those phases of cadet life which are experienced by "yearlings" in their "yearling camp.

  47. It is not till in yearling camp that a cadet begins to "spoon.

  48. It is the yearling who does most of the hazing.

  49. It was all due to this unnecessary rigor, and "being military," which some of the yearling corporals affected.

  50. We have no yearling corporals, and plebes fare better generally than ever before.

  51. We had only a moment's watch before a fine yearling buck came down to the opposite shore and stood looking across the river.

  52. She was in the field, and the yearling on the road.

  53. At the same time that cow goes frantic if her yearling gets out of her sight.

  54. A couple of weeks ago, the red cow and her yearling got on the road and started off to see the world.

  55. Her mother was still in love with the yearling that had been allowed to run with her in the pasture on the previous summer.

  56. You can't take a dehorned yearling by the ear and tell him persuasively that a well-bedded stall and a full manger are much to be preferred to the pelting rain and the scorn of the outer dark.

  57. I should have had more respect for the dehorned two-year-old and his war talk had it not been that on the previous evening I had seen him being prodded across the field by a sharp-horned little yearling heifer.

  58. And besides these that go round infesting the place outside he's got a short yearling and a long two-year-old that have to be night-herded.

  59. They show him the pictures and quote prices on the hoof--which are low, but look what even a runt of a yearling whale that was calved late in the fall would weigh on the scales!

  60. The yearling ran up to the trough, thrust his muzzle into the honey, the other cubs followed him, but no sooner had they got there than the block swung back, struck the yearling on the head and killed him.

  61. The mother came in front and a yearling and some cubs followed behind.

  62. I don't want you to think that I'm going to set up as a yearling saint," Dick added.

  63. Immediately after the proud and happy graduating class had left to take up its new life in the scattered Army of the United States, the yearling class dropped that designation and became the new second class at West Point.

  64. After Dick had conducted Laura to a seat beside her mother he stepped away to find Sennett, of the yearling class.

  65. One cloudy Friday afternoon Cadet Corporal Haskins marched a yearling detachment down to the riding hall.

  66. If a plebe did have the brass to try it," replied Anstey slowly, "I reckon he would have to fight the whole yearling class in turn.

  67. Mr. Briggs judged that he had better salute the yearling class president very carefully as he passed out with his bucket.

  68. One afternoon, when Dick had been dozing on his mattress for about ten minutes, during a period of freedom from drill, the tent flap rustled, and Yearling Furlong looked in.

  69. Confound it, can a yearling see just as well when he's asleep as when he's awake?

  70. The astounded yearling felt as though his brain were reeling.

  71. I hadn't advanced far enough to appreciate the very exalted position that a yearling holds by right.

  72. Two of the antelope were yearling bucks, and one was a large doe.

  73. During this period the old bucks go off singly into the rolling ground, and the herds are composed only of does and yearling males.

  74. It caught the yearling over the right eye, closing it.

  75. Yes; I must be getting back to my own bone," replied Yearling Pratt.

  76. I must be going now," uttered Yearling Judson a moment later.

  77. As the yearling fought back furiously the blood spurted from his nose.

  78. Now, in view of the fact that you offered explanation and apology, I don't believe that the yearling scrap committee can hold you to any meeting with Mr. Spurlock this time.

  79. More than a score had been dropped from the new yearling class.

  80. Just at that instant the yearling looked as though butter couldn't melt in his mouth.

  81. Butler all but struck this blow up, yet, as he darted back from the parry, the yearling tasted blood from his own lower lip.

  82. Outside the wind was whistling around the corner, and the coyotes, attracted by the scent of a freshly killed yearling hanging in a cedar near the dugout, were howling and shrieking like a lot of school-children at play.

  83. So just as the yearling was about to try again if she could push him over, he took fast hold of each horn.

  84. Miss Yearling either fancied this an insult or an invitation to single combat, for she again lowered her head and ran at Charlie, who had no stick, and so thought best to run from the enemy.

  85. The neighboring Indians soon drove in some horses to trade, and before night we had disposed of all but four head of our cattle, one yoke of oxen, one yearling heifer, and a yearling calf.

  86. These were followed by a score of cattle, mostly cows and yearling calves, and the rear was brought up by a girl, riding a big brown horse.

  87. He taught her to use a rifle and she brought down her first deer, a yearling buck, at long range.

  88. Which thou hast believed with all the simplicity of a yearling babe.

  89. Weak and helpless, he was as utterly in her hands as if he had been indeed but a yearling babe; and as his eyes followed hers he slowly repeated her words as if she drew them from him.

  90. Going back along the line of the stampede of the previous night, I met a poor little yearling calf elephant, torn badly by a lion, but still alive.


  91. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yearling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.