He dealt in shekels and stocks, and bloomed and flourished, and soon became like unto a golden calf, and lo!

The night he and his school companions had restored the little calf to its frantic mother, Andy had seen Graham in the window of his room in the old farmhouse.

"A fat calf makes a poor cow, and a fat, small calf isn't profitable to fit for sending to the butcher.

Washes for freckles, plumpers, glass-eyes, false calves and noses, ivory-jaws, and a new receipt to turn red hair into black.

A neighbor had lost a calf, a white-faced calf with a broken horn.

And, to cover her constraint, she cried out: "Oh, what a lovely book!" A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

"That's a veal calf," Beth said.

The moose calves and all the small game were taken with Beatrice's pistol.

She sat back in a comfortable chair facing the light, her legs were crossed, and she displayed a great deal more of beautifully rounded calf and perfectly fitting silk stockings than is usual even in the best society.

And there lay a pretty calf, a beauty, red-flanked like her mother, and comically bewildered at the miracle of coming into the world.

But for a Sister who stood by the convent gate like a statue of Eternal Silence, and a man who was killing a wretched calf in the middle of the road, I might have asked myself if this fantastic Bozouls was not some spectral village, reproducing the past in all except the living beings who had gone down into their graves.

Crybaby calf, by Helen Evers & Alf Evers.

[Footnote 2: Unborn buffalo calves.]

Under the trees, close to the creek, in whose cooling waters stood bottles of beer and wine, a tender calf was being barbecued.

Conspicuously Angela attached herself to Tomlinson-Thorpe, regardless of the gaping eyes and mouths of neighbours, Puritan to the backbone in everything except the stealing of unbranded calves.

A row of geese, waddling solemnly in single file, came first, and then turkeys stalked among their broods; a boy led a handsome goat and long-legged calf, and in the rear straggled a flock of sheep.

"There is an idiotic moon-calf here with a clam head, which must be just like what you used to be.

It was not merely that they were worshipping idolsgolden calves at Dan, and Bethel, and Samaria, at the same time that they worshipped the true God.

The dark deed was accomplished thus: on the houses being searched on the arrival of the first party at Laspur, an innocent little calf was found in one of the houses, and quick as thought then and there despatched.

That is, I waltzed, while you hobbled about like a lame calf, much to the amusement of most of the company.

They were lean calves, and Miss Laura asked her aunt why all the nice milk they had taken had not made them fat.

Father has got the gout in his right toe, or his left calf, or his wrist, or all his fingers, and is, consequently, fuller than usual of hatred and malice; mother's neuralgia is very bad, and she is sadly in want of change, but she cannot leave him.

But let me give you another instance: a man whom I have already mentioned, saw at a farm nearer the centre of the island a live calf being burnt.

Here was the lost calf.

During the time the young male calf is suckled by his mother, he is called a bull-or ox-calf; when turned a year old, he is called a stirk, stot, or yearling; on the completion of his second year, he is called a two-year-old bull or steer (and in some counties a twinter); then, a three-year-old steer; and at four, an ox or a bullock, which latter names are retained till death.