571 Verbs to Use for the Word animal

His practice was to kill all the young animals which were not uncommonly large and thrifty; to cram those he kept, with as much food as they would eat, and to tempt their appetites by the variety of their nourishment, as well as of the modes of preparing it.

Every hair seemed to stand towards his head, and if he wasn't in earnest I never saw an animal that was.

When one child suggested finding a dead animal and using it for food, some were disgusted, but a little girl said, "I don't suppose they would mind, they wouldn't be very particular.

OF ALL WILD or DOMESTICATED ANIMALS, the sheep is, without exception, the most useful to man as a food, and the most necessary to his health and comfort; for it not only supplies him with the lightest and most nutritious of meats, but, in the absence of the cow, its udder yields him milk, cream, and a sound though inferior cheese; while from its fat he obtains light, and from its fleece broadcloth, kerseymere, blankets, gloves, and hose.

One day Alexis desired to see how the Indians hunted buffaloes and killed them with bow and arrow; so Spotted Tail, selecting some of his best hunters, had them surround a herd, and bring the animals down, not only with arrows, but with lances.

He rode a horse, and putting me on my pony "Dolly," led the animal all the way.

We started back to town, the cowboys and Indians driving the animals, and the zebras and giraffes kicking up and acting as though they had got out of school on account of the death of a dear teacher, like schoolboys.

She loved all dumb animals, and they seemed to know by instinct that she was their friend.

I was instructed to leave the animals in the quartermaster's corral at Fort Wallace until I should come back, but instead of doing this I put them both in the care of my old friend Perry, the hotel-keeper at Sheridan.

The experiments that have been tried, are tried again; he that burned an animal with irons yesterday, will be willing to amuse himself with burning another to-morrow.

Here they pleased themselves a whole day with beholding the giant's kitchen, where the flesh of sheep and goats lay strewed, his dairy where goat-milk stood ranged in troughs and pails, his pens where he kept his live animals; but those he had driven forth to pasture with him when he went out in the morning.

Nothing is easier than to feed these animals, and to watch the particles of indigo or carmine accumulate at the lower end of the gullet.

If Mabrín can destroy the animal, I will give him my daughter.

" "What?" cried Frank, startled; "then perhaps he may not be hunting wild animals after all.

Rolfe caught up the animal in his arms, and returned to where the girl was sitting.

North and I finally put the riders on, and it was all I could do to hold the fiery little animal after the boy became seated on his back.

He then shot the three animals, and as they fell to the ground he cut their throats to stop their kicking.

From this point it was difficult to trail them, as they had taken the stolen animals out of the timber one by one and in different directions, thus showing that they were experts at the business and experienced frontiersmen, for no Indian could have exhibited more cunning in covering up a trail than did they.

I was fortunate in getting well-broken animals, and being so light, I easily made my forty-five miles on time on my first trip out, and ever afterwards.

The Pennsylvanians sent such rascally animals into camp that they speedily gave in.

Even a strayed horse or a strayed cow is advertised with a picture representing the animal in the very act of going astray.

The Widow Clark's cow occupied the next square, being tethered to a stake while Skim approached the animal with pail and milking-stool.

They went at once to attack the animals, but, being rather a cowardly people compared to Bechuanas in general on such occasions, they returned without killing any.

Those who studied this curious Imperial animal did not believe him capable of such pure and simple ferocity.

They tied their animals and held a council of war.

571 Verbs to Use for the Word  animal