11 Metaphors for calf

Calves six months old are fed wheat bran and barley meal and young grass, and care should be taken that they are watered morning and evening.

Oh, my pretty little calf, At the squatter you may laugh, For he’ll never be your owner any more; For you’re running, running, running on the duffer’s piece of land, Free selected on the Eumerella shore.

To make CALF'S FOOT JELLY.

The golden calves of the wilderness were another form of the worship of the sacred bulls of Memphis.

The season's calves were fleet and strong by now, and every herd had its thousands of antlered bulls that formed bristling hedges to defend their own.

She was but a three-year-old, and he was her first baby; so, as they threaded their way through the cattle on the river-bank the little line-back calf was the object of much attention.

WHEN A CALF SHOULD BE KILLED.The age at which a calf ought to be killed should not be under four weeks: before that time the flesh is certainly not wholesome, wanting firmness, due development of muscular fibre, and those animal juices on which the flavour and nutritive properties of the flesh depend, whatever the unhealthy palate of epicures may deem to the contrary.

The little pink calves who had never seen the herd grow still in this same way before, felt the dawn of the storm that they could not understand, and took shelter beneath their mothers' bellies.

The calf was a dark red except for a white stripe which covered the right side of his face, including his ear and lower jaw, and continued in a narrow band beginning on his withers and broadening as it extended backward until it covered his hips.

The calf being a type or symbol of Divine power, or what was called the Elohim,the Almighty intelligence that brought them out of Egypt,was looked upon much in the same light by the Jews, as the cross subsequently was by the Christians, a mystical emblem of the Divine passion and goodness.

A calf is a creature in a temporary and progressive stage of its being.

11 Metaphors for  calf