He addressed his remarks to his late guests: "You fragrant old he-goat, you will give orders to me, will youyou are sure some diplomatyou poor old moth-eaten gander, with your cow-like duplicity.

In nearly every one of these faces a sort of cow-like bewilderment expresses itselfnot grief, not even resentment, but merely a stupefied wonderment at the astounding fact that their town, rather than some other town, should be the town where the soldiers of other nations come to fight out their feud.

The cow-like form and serenity of her features are made laughably obvious.