Cattle are, of course, not the only food supply.

These lean cattle in the rich pastures are the souls of sinners, while those fat cattle on dry and sunburnt ground are the souls of sinless ones.

The cattle were twos and threes.

He said that cattle raising is very profitable, as they double in number every four years, i.e., a profit of 25 per cent.; thus, if a man start with a 1,000 head of stock cattle, he will have 4,000 head in four years.

The country is flat; the soil is fine sifted loam running to dust, as the air of England runs to fog; the woods are dense and beautiful and full of trees unknown to the parallel of New York; the roads are miserable cart-paths; the cattle are scalawags; so are the horses, not run away; so are the people, black and white, not run away; the crops are tolerable, where the invaders have not trampled them.

Cattle once down may be days in dying, They stretch out their necks along the ground, and roll up their slow eyes at longer intervals.

Cattle, hides, and cheese are the exports.

But both have entirely disappeared as wild animals, unless indeed the white cattle of Chillingham are really descendants of Caesar's dreadful urus and not merely domestic cattle lapsed into savagery.

We were without water, all on the verge of starvation, and the three poor cattle which yet remained alive were objects of pity.

His fields were rich, his acres broad, And cattle were his pride; Oxen and sheep, and horses, too, And what you please, beside.

Hence, too, I infer that cattle is not a collective noun, as Nixon would have it to be, but an irregular plural which has no singular; because we can say these cattle or those cattle, but neither a bullock nor a herd is ever called a cattle, this cattle, or that cattle.

His cattle were Shorthorns, Herefords, and Devons.

The cattle in her homestead were three sows, A ewe call'd Mally, and three brinded cows.

In agricultural and pastoral communities where every one had a share in the pasture, cattle were a fairly convenient form of money, but in the city trade of to-day their use as money is impossible.

The cattle exported from Tetuan, Tangier, and El-Araish, for the victualling of Gibraltar, is likewise a monopoly; it amounted during my stay to 7,500 dollars.

Here kind is indeed singular, as if cattle were a natural genus of which one must be a cattle; as sheep are a natural genus of which one is a sheep: but whether properly expressed so or not, is questionable; perhaps it ought to be, "and cattle after their kinds."

These precious cattle were a common possession of the whole colony, and were not divided until the year 1627, when their numbers had greatly increased, and when a regular division of the houses and lands also took place.

The cattle were small, pale red creatures, and not inclined to be very fat, and the birds mostly of the parrot kind.

The great cattle and sheep ranges of the West, because of overgrazing, are capable, in an average year, of carrying but half the stock they once could support and should still.

The horned and unhorned cattle are not accidental variations, but different species: they will, however, breed together.

" "Surely," said Fundanius, "feeding cattle is one thing and agriculture is another, but they are related.

Then as now cattle was its chief wealth, and such a prohibition meant nothing short of ruin to the landowners, and through them to all who depended upon them.

The cattle generally were evidently of the Gaelic origin and antecedents little, chubby, scraggy creatures, of all colors, but mostly black, with wide-branching horns longer than their fore-legs.