The yearlings and plebes receive instruction in the manual and nomenclature of the piece.
Yearlings "bone" their guns and accoutrements for "colors," and sometimes get them every time they toss up.
On all such occasions it is an immemorial custom for the yearlings to interfere with and haze the plebe sentinels.
These plebes, or rather yearlings now, were better disciplined, and, of course, my own scruples vanished.
But for the 1898 Show a desirable change was made by putting the yearlings first, and following on with classes in the order of age.
Up till the Show of 1898 both stallions and mares commenced with the eldest, so that Class I was for stallions ten years old and upwards, the yearlings coming last, the mare classes following in like order.
Calves and yearlings were making the dust fly along the mountain slope; wild old steers were crashing in the sage, holding level, unwilling to be driven down; cows were running and lowing for their lost ones.
Finally he killed eleven yearlings for my boss on one night.
Soon she saw a doe with two yearlings coming towards her, leisurely grazing on the choice grass.
I have seen her teaching the yearlings and two-year-olds to dive down the face of a cliff which was fully twice the height of a man.
At first the yearlings hesitate and almost lose their balance, but the mother makes them repeat the performance until they have accomplished it to her satisfaction.
If this sick beast should get amongst them, the yearlings at least, to whom the disease is fatal, would be dying like flies in twenty-four hours.
And the yearlings scattered, bearing "Billy Williams" off in triumph.
And any doubts the yearlings may have had on this question were settled as the yearlings stared, for the object turned to the other and spoke.
The surgeons were busy that afternoon in trying to piece together several plebes who had been knocked all to pieces by theyearlings for being too "B.
It made the yearlings mad and that was all he cared about.
The yearlings were a merry party, about ten of them, and they were out for fun and all the fun that could be had.
He had swept the yearlings at Fort Clinton before him that way and he thought to do it again.
And Texas fell to pacing up and down inside the fort, chewing at his finger nails and muttering angrily to himself, while the yearlings gathered into a group and speculated what the strange turn in the affair could mean.
Though each one of the yearlings was ready, even anxious, to explain that he wasn't the least bit afraid of him.
Mark had seen that the yearlingscame up boldly, which told him at once that the sentries were "fixed," and he calculated that just at the moment the moon being clouded, the sentries would not know yearlings from plebes.
That was how the yearlings felt; and even Bull Harris, ruffian though he was, trembled slightly about the lips.
And with this, the indignant captain turned upon his heel, and strode off, leaving the yearlings as if a bombshell had landed in their midst.
The yearlings "yanked" with all the power of their arms.
Then there were the yearlings themselves, all crying out with fright and alarm and rushing wildly in to drag the burning wood away.
Their foreman, Bibleback Hunt, and myself were returning from hunting this missing bunch of yearlings when night overtook us, fully twenty-five miles from camp.
After a hard day's ride, we found that we were out several hundred head, principally yearlings of the through Texas stock.
If the amateur intends to keep any of his yearlings longer than December, he will have to make a larger pond.
The yearlings are best taken from the rearing ponds by netting them.
However, he threw his hook at them, but could not drag the yearlings down to the sea, as they were protected by the virtue in the mountain ash.
His hook stuck in its twigs, and the yearlings came home with it, and the Bonde hung it up in his house by the chimney.
Five minutes after tattoo Yearlings Davis and Poultney sauntered down the company street.
The end of the cord these two resourceful yearlings tied to a noose.
As was almost certain to happen, one of the yearlings heard Dodge sounding his trumpet of brag.
Several of the yearlings had reason to feel acutely concerned over their standing in academic work.
However, there was no chance whatever for Yearlings Pratt and Judson to retreat unseen.
The day after the graduating class had departed, and the late yearlings had followed in their trail, as the furloughed new second class, what was left of the battalion marched forth out of barracks into camp.
Let the yearlings try that sort of trick, if they dare.
Don't let any of the yearlings hear you canning a brag like that, or they'll get you if they have to turn out the whole class after taps to do the job.
It would have been out of the question for yearlings to thank plebes for a service such as had just been rendered.
All very well," grinned Dick "But how are you going to prove it, if the yearlings catch you napping tonight?
Also, according to a tacitly understood rule, none of these three yearlings could engage in hazing Mr. Prescott after that.
Then, lowering his voice still more, Anstey gave an outline of what the new yearlings were supposed to try to do to the lonely plebe on post number three at the hour when ghosts walk.
Other yearlings chimed in with one view or another, but Bend, working away over some company papers in his tent, held his peace.
The two yearlings tried at the same time with him were quietly summoned to the office of the commandant one day and told to pack their trunks.
The next minute he was through the north gate and bearing down on the battle, when the outermost yearlings caught sight of his coming and gave the alarm.
All along among the tents the yearlings could be seen indulging in pantomime, expressive of the liveliest delight at these accessions to the ranks.
Some of those yearlings are going to try and get square with you to-night.
Geordie began to wonder when the yearlings would decide to summon him to Fort Clinton to settle the score still hung up between Woods and himself.
The group ofyearlings had constituted itself an examining board, and was propounding most intricate and surprising problems to test Benny's knowledge of military tactics.
First Class men and yearlings are generally the men at fault; plebes, as a rule, do the best they know how, for otherwise no mercy is shown them.
Selected records of these yearlings are presented below.
Selected Records of Individual Skinks Marked as Yearlings (After Emergence From the First Hibernation) and Recaptured One or More Times the Same Year.
During Roosevelt's absence in the East, Merrifield and Sylvane had returned from Iowa with a thousand head of yearlings and "two-year-olds.
Also there were six steers, thirteen milch cows, five heifers, four yearlings and seven calves, the cows obviously supplying the dairy equipped with ten milk trays, a tub and earthenware pan.
The yearlings were growing bolder; there was time now and again to breathe, and pass a word to a friend, and the mere flicker of the knife would sometimes turn a dog aside.
Forty yearlings had been manhandled and heaved into a car, and one old bull was added which would eventually visit eastern parts in tins.
If he gained the crowding pen, where more yearlings and another bull waited, there would be a fight and a lot of mussing and long delay.
Mr. Croker has an even dozen horses and colts in training, and he showed us some yearlings of great promise.
I'm going up to look at them sick yearlings in Number Two corral.
But the visitors from the East did not understand this fact fully until a few days later, when the first bunch of Spring calves and yearlings were driven into a not far distant corral to be branded.
The smell of the burning flesh, and the bellowing of the calves and yearlings as their ears were slit, stirred the old fellow up.
The fattening of cattle for the butcher was the paying part of the business, but the difficulty was to get yearlings or two-year-olds at their proper price.
However, when the percentage of yearlings is compared between the two groups, the difference is almost significant at the 95 percent level.
Note: incisor-sectioning is unnecessary for fawns and yearlings because animals of these ages can be aged objectively by the progress of tooth replacement.
In regard to the first possibility, there was limited evidence that during February and March 1969 some fawns and yearlings in our study area were losing their fat stores.
The deciduous first incisors of fawns and the deciduous premolars of yearlings are usually replaced with permanent teeth by December (Severinghaus 1949).
These five were all killed in February or March 1969; three were fawns, and two were yearlings that had not yet shed their deciduous premolars.
The discovery that 13 percent of the fawns and 84 percent of the yearlings killed during January, February, and March had not yet shed their deciduous incisors and premolars, respectively, also fits well with the rest of our information.
Calves and yearlings are the only animals in the herd that may show symptoms of the disease.
Two or three of the yearlings in this corral were cripples, with twisted, misshapen limbs, and Jack asked Hugh whether these would ever recover, and if not, what they were good for.
All them crippled yearlings ought to be killed, they're no good now, and they'll never be any better than they are.
There's two yearlings been killed since I was over there last, and I believe it's wolves that done it.
The stock cattle are half-breeds, except yearlings and calves, which he has raised, and which show the Durham cross.
Seven of the calves and four of the yearlings trotted to the gate, which Stonecypher held open, and jostled out of the pasture.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yearlings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
