27 Words to use with calves

When he lays down his wallet among a lot of other calf skins, like a great sponge in a puddle of water, it sucks every square inch of legal tender, which is in suckin' distance.

" "Bah! Calf love!

And, besides, Cousin Lucy Fentnor (as befitted any one born an Allardyce) was to all accounts a notable housekeeper, famed alike for the perilous glassiness of her hardwood floors, her dexterous management of servants, her Honiton-braid fancy-work (familiar to every patron of Lichfield charity bazaars), and her unparalleled calves-foot jelly.

Take a Calves head, cleane it and wash it very well, put it a boyling till it be three quarters boyled, then cut off the flesh from the bones, and cut it in peices as big as Walnuts.

There was also the bay, and the lofts for hay and grain; and at the end of the tie-up there was a door leading into a calf-pen, and thence, by a passage behind the calf-pen, to a work-shop and shed.

All the good boots and shoes we have is young calf lether, that is all I will say about young calf lether.

But with the gathering and the calf-branding he knew that the number had shrunk woefully.

It is therefore probable that, in borrowing so familiar a type, the Israelites, in their calf-worship, meant, under a well-understood cherubic symbol, to acknowledge the full force of those virtues, under an emblem of divine power and goodness.

I should never have been able, indeed, to get the cow and calf home, last night at least, if it had not been for my chance friend.

In his calf-hood he had fled many times before the menace of grizzly, and perhaps he remembered.

Instead of replying, however, he laid down his boot, rose, and first taking from a shelf a whole skin of calf-leather, and next a low chair from a corner of the room, he set the latter near his own seat opposite the window.

Indeed, I had idealized it roughly in my pocket-book, intending to transfer the sketches, for elaboration on canvas, to Tankerville, the regimental Landseer, whose menagerie of living models, consisting of two bears, one calf-moose, one loup-cervier, three bloated raccoons, and a bald eagle, formed at once the terror and delight of the rising generation of the barracks.

The arch of the foot has given way; the plantar ligaments have become stretched and the deep calf muscles weakened.

Hereupon their minds (animi) were appeased, which was through fear lest their sentiments should be divulged; and then they began to speak modestly and to act bashfully; from which circumstance I knew that they were not of mean descent but of honorable birth; and then I told them, how I saw them in the forest as satyrs, twenty as calf-satyrs, six as panther-satyrs, and four as wolf-satyrs; they were thirty in number.

The man carried the baby elk home and shut it up in a calf stall in the cow shed.

The boy backed away a pace or two, and stood gently moving his head about, and staring with his large pale eyes, as a calf stares at a dog.

We read in the Scriptures that Abraham prepared cakes of fine meal and a calf tender and good, which, with butter and milk, he set before the three angels in the plains of Mamre.

I saw a cow-elk and a yearling calf trotting across a glade about a hundred yards distant.

Library Edition, 8vo, Muslin, 75 cents per Volume; Sheep extra, 87-1/2 cents per Volume; Calf backs and corners, $1 00 per Volume.

It is safest to rest in the general proposition, that, even as the calf yields Veal, so does the immature human mind yield immature productions.

When she saw them the girl began to sing: "The cow lows for its calf The calf bleats for its mother: My father and mother Are weeping for me at home.

"Think I'm sore on you because of that calf business?

"The calf-crop is running kinda short," he announced hurriedly.

Did I know anything about it, and if so, would I punish the evildoer and restore the implement?" The village expert in calf-delivery wants to know whether, in the case of the happy event taking place after 9 P.M. (which it usually does), I would give him permission to leave his home after closing hours, so that he might assist at the function.

My copy of the Great King's Wisdom was of no particular bibliographical value, but it was one of those thick-set, old-calf duodecimos "black with tarnished gold" which Austin Dobson has sung, books that, one imagines, must have once made even the Latin Grammar attractive.

27 Words to use with  calves