Use cattle in a sentence
Sentences starting with cattle
- Cattle differ from horses in this peculiar quality. [5]
- Cattle wandered shoulders deep in the rich grass, and fruit of all kinds was to be had for the picking. [11]
- Cattle sometimes stampede as easily as buffalo. [13]
- Cattle lowed here and there, and horses whinnied to be fed. [9]
- Cattle aren't sheep. [13]
Sentences ending with cattle
- I'm beginning to worry about more than the loss of a herd of cattle. [13]
- A name credited with a dozen murders, a hundred forays, and a thousand stealings of cattle. [13]
- As soon as we came out upon the southern slope we found great open spaces, covered with succulent grass, and giving excellent pasturage to cattle. [4]
- Another reporter, who was assigned to inform the public of the results of a difficult archeological investigation, frankly confessed his inability to understand what was going on; for his ordinary business, he said, was cattle. [4]
- Venters exercised his usual care in the matter of hiding tracks from the outlet, yet it took him scarcely an hour to reach Oldring's cattle. [13]
- We looked down upon Kaskaskia from the self-same spot where I had stood on the bluff with Colonel Clark, and the sounds were even then the same,--the sweet tones of the church bell and the lowing of the cattle. [9]
- They could close up every entrance, and live unscathed; for here was land for tilling, and wood, and wild fruit, and food for cattle. [11]
- He has made Troy his headquarters, and to this point boats come for their supply of feed for cattle. [5]
- They were mixed together, sheep, hogs, horses, mules, and cattle. [5]
- Downing, has communicated to me facts which seem to prove that this does occur in certain families of short-horn cattle. [1]
Short sentences using cattle
- Poor city cattle! [10]
Sentences containing cattle two or more times
- I believe the cattle and the vermin live inside the wall; for I saw cattle coming out and cattle going in; and whenever I saw a villager, he was scratching. [5]
More example sentences with the word cattle in them
- One man, whom your correspondent spoke to, said that he had had one hundred and fifty head of cattle and one hundred head of hogs. [5]
- That was the year that Miss Virginia Carvel was given charge of the booth in Dr. Posthelwaite's church,--the booth next one of the great arches through which prancing horses and lowing cattle came. [9]
- The cattle trail wound for miles and miles down the slope. [13]
- These dumb cattle would not learn it of themselves, and so the murrain of Homoeopathy fell on them. [6]
- Felion sat just within his doorway, looking out into the sunlight which fell upon the red and white walls of the little city, flanked by young orchards, with great, oozy meadows beyond these, where cattle ate, knee- deep in the lush grass and cool reed-beds. [11]
- On the veld, with the first delicate glow, the head of a meerkat, or a springbok, is raised above the gray-brown grass; herds of cattle move uneasily. [11]
- They mounted, and, with Jane in the lead, rode down the lane, and, turning off into a cattle trail, proceeded westward. [13]
- He had listened with affable condescension to the complaint of a landed proprietor, whose cattle had been driven off for the king's army, and had promised that his case should be enquired into. [10]
- He built it with a tail, teeth, fourteen legs, and a snout, and said it ate grass, cattle, pebbles, and dirt with equal enthusiasm. [5]
- Upon gaining the wide opening he decided to cross it and follow the left wall till he came to the cattle trail. [13]
- There were reasons why sugar, salt, cotton, cattle and other things had not done well. [11]
- Some rascally bondmen who had seized cattle and utensils belonging to others had been bound to a palmtree, and the ravens that followed the procession; and had found ample sustenance on the way, now croaked greedily around the quickly established place of execution. [10]
- The General's study, which was Hugh's now, was piled high with new and bulky books on cattle and cultivation of the soil. [9]
- In the valley where the moonlight fell in icy coldness a herd of cattle was moving, and their breath rose like the spray from sea-beaten rocks, and the sound of their breathing was borne upwards to the watchers. [11]
- But the birds were out, and presently here and there cattle rose up in the fields. [11]
- Near the houses were cattle standing breast high in the water, perfectly impassive. [5]
- Well, as I was saying about the parlor, there was beautiful curtains on the windows: white, with pictures painted on them of castles with vines all down the walls, and cattle coming down to drink. [5]
- But the cattle was in a high nervous condition. [13]
- When the flat was brought up, the side of the house was cut away as the only means of getting the animals out, and the cattle were driven on board the boat. [5]
- Within the fort was a big common dotted with forest trees, where such cattle as had been saved browsed on the scanty grass. [9]
- Now what I want to know is how on earth did cattle ever get in here? [13]
- It was a very peaceful scene of rural life, and we were inclined to tarry, but Mary, instead of calling us home with the cattle, advised us to ride on to Alexander's before it got dark. [4]
- The Roman has valuable cattle in his shafts, and at the inn down there, there is a shed for horses. [10]
- Her father had trained her in the management of a hundred employees and the working of gardens and fields; and to keep record of the movements of cattle and riders. [13]
- Still farther away, towards the south, was the great cattle-pasture, where, as he looked, a thousand cattle roamed. [11]
- It occurred again to Venters that he could go to the canyon where Oldring kept his cattle, and at little risk he could pack out some beef. [13]
- The only solution to this puzzle was that the cattle had been driven through water, and water deep enough to wet their legs. [13]
- I became accustomed to this dumb society, and picked on in silence, attributing all the wood noises to the cattle, thinking nothing of any real bear. [4]
- It is sweet to the taste; horses and cattle are fond of it, and when they have once eaten it they prefer it to anything else, and often refuse other food. [4]
- She wanted him to take charge of her cattle and horse and ranges, and save them if that were possible. [13]
- The conspiracy was to raid his cattle, to lure him to pursuit, to ambush him, and kill him. [11]
- So I hastened to console him and lead him on to forget his mishap in a conversational orgy about cattle and butchery. [5]
- Dodging from bush to bush, he passed the mouths of two canyons, and in the entrance of a third canyon he crossed a wash of swift clear water, to come abruptly upon the cattle trail. [13]
- He is hungry to be rich, for he is human; but his preference has been for riches in cattle, not in fine clothes and fine houses and gold and diamonds. [5]
- That trail led to an undiscovered point where Oldring drove cattle into the pass, and many a rider who had followed it had never returned. [13]
- Presently Jane began to act her little part, to laugh and play with Fay, to talk of horses and cattle to Lassiter. [13]
- And all the time M. Marchand kept coming and going, at first when Dennis was there, and always with some good reason for coming--horses, cattle, shooting, or furs bought of the Indians. [11]
- A little of this, a little of that, a drink here, a game of euchre there, a ride after cattle, a hunt behind Guidon Hill!--But what is that? [11]
- The verdure had thickened and its bright green stood out sharply against the brownish strips of winter rye trodden down by the cattle, and against the pale-yellow stubble of the spring buckwheat. [2]
- But why would they--anybody stampede my cattle? [13]
- On the ranches they let their cattle loose upon the plains in winter, knowing not where they go, yet looking for them to return in the spring. [11]
- At certain seasons there was an almost continuous procession of herds of cattle and sheep passing to the Eastern markets, and of trains of big wagons wending their way to the inviting lands watered by the Tennessee. [4]
- Scattered here and there over the rocks, like conies, are peasants, tending a few lean cattle, and digging grasses from the crevices. [4]
- The eyes of the young men sparkled with eagerness for the fray, and many a head of cattle was slaughtered to make the meal a festal banquet. [10]
- And then came the words: "None shall stand in the way of the lord, The lord of the Earth--of the rivers and trees, Of the cattle and fields and vines! [11]
- In fact, as the men say, his rustling cattle is now only a bluff. [13]
- If I drive the kine of thieves from the plains to my hills, the cattle were mine ere I drove them. [11]
- It bars out the flies, and has healing properties, and a nip to it which makes the sheep skip like the cattle on a thousand hills. [5]
- There grows upon the deserts and the cattle ranges of the Rockies a plant of the leguminosae family, with a purple blossom, which is called the 'loco'. [4]
- They are like the cattle-pens of a ranch--they shut in the several brands of historical cattle, each within its own fence, and keep them from getting mixed together. [5]
- Tell her that the cattle 'll all be hers--an'--the house, an' I ain't got no one but--" But Pierre pushed him back and shut the door, saying: "I'll tell her what a fool you are, Jimmy Throng. [11]
- Mary was calling the cattle home at the farm of the second Snap. [4]
- The opening of the canyon showed in a break of the sage, and the cattle trail paralleled it as far as he could see. [13]
- In June of that year Gates sailed again, with six vessels, three hundred men, one hundred cows, besides other cattle, and provisions of all sorts. [4]
- Venters satisfied himself that the rustlers had not deviated from their usual course, and then he turned at right angles off the cattle trail and made for the head of the pass. [13]
- He also reported that a few knights had been feeling their way toward us, and had driven some cattle across our lines, but that the knights themselves had not come very near. [5]
- The attempt was successful and, amid the thunder and lightning, greeted with loud cheers, the last man and the last head of cattle reached the land. [10]
- It is therefore strongly impressed upon his mind that the cattle want salting. [4]
- Suddenly the cattle stirred again, and stampeded to the other corner of the field. [9]
- Together they crept stealthily within range of the cattle. [11]
- When a man steals cattle, they cut off his right hand and left leg and nail them up in the marketplace as a warning to everybody. [5]
- The two Pavlograd squadrons were bivouacking on a field of rye, which was already in ear but had been completely trodden down by cattle and horses. [2]
- At first the spring had lost itself in a heap of moss-covered granite blocks and afterwards in the earth; but now the overflow and trickling away of the precious fluid had been stopped and a reservoir formed whence the cattle also could drink. [10]
- Venters marked the smooth gait, and understood it when Wrangle galloped out of the sage into the broad cattle trail, down which Venters had once tracked Jane Withersteen's red herd. [13]
- We built a small, rude cabin in the side of the crevice and roofed it with canvas, leaving a corner open to serve as a chimney, through which the cattle used to tumble occasionally, at night, and mash our furniture and interrupt our sleep. [5]
- As Orlando Guise slid from his horse, Joel Mazarine steadied himself and said: "Come about the cattle? [11]
- Was that the sing-song voice of the auctioneer He was selling the cattle. [9]
- Nothing of life showed, save the cattle here and there, creeping away to the shelter of the foothills for the night. [11]
- But one day Shon McGann, muttering aves as he rode, gained on the cattle, until once again the Scarlet Hunter came forth from a cleft of the mountains, and drove the herd forward with swifter feet. [11]
- He was now seventy miles from Cottonwoods, and, he believed, close to the canyon where the cattle trail must surely turn off and go down into the Pass. [13]
- Beyond it a setting sun gilded the corn-fields, and horses and cattle dotted the pastures. [9]
- He buys and sells votes and credentials like cattle. [9]
- Beyond question he seemed unutterably aloof from all knowledge of pressure being brought to bear upon her, absolutely guiltless of any connection with secret power over riders, with night journeys, with rustlers and stampedes of cattle. [13]
- We do not see free horses or free cattle running at large. [7]
- Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care. [1]
- And like a scouting Indian Venters crawled through the sage of the oval valley, crossed trail after trail on the north side, and at last entered the canyon out of which headed the cattle trail, and into which he had watched the rustlers disappear. [13]
- It's just the same with these mill hands, they're not human beings to you, they're--they're cattle. [9]
- For years my riders have trailed the tracks of stolen cattle. [13]
- Are not Foorgat's riches mine, his Palace, his gardens, his cattle, and his plantations, are they not mine? [11]
- There were the racks where he put the fodder for cattle and horses, and there was the cutting-machine for the hay and straw and for slicing the frozen turnips on cold winter mornings. [4]
- Before analyzing the properties of manure, before entering into the debit and credit (as he ironically called it), he found out how many cattle the peasants had and increased the number by all possible means. [2]
- An imperial command prohibited the soldiery from moving about the city at night, and the Frauenthor, through which during the day plenty of people and cattle passed in and out had been closed long before. [10]
- The village of Pihahiroth was soon gained, and while dashing by it without pausing, he noticed that its huts and tents were deserted by men and cattle. [10]
- At last he paused before two models at the far end of the room, passing his hand repeatedly over each as he had done so often with the cattle of Coniston. [9]
- I could hear on all sides the tinkle of bells, the cracking of sticks, and the stamping of cattle that were taking refuge in the thicket from the flies. [4]
- Katuti's steward has offered to sell a herd of cattle to ours, although the stock on Mena's land can be but small. [10]
- The townsfolk drove off our cattle as security and, by way of punishment, your uncle seized the goods of their merchants, and they came to blows. [10]
- Toward the center of this circle the sage-brush grew smaller and farther apart He was about to sheer off to the right, where thickets and jumbles of fallen rock would afford him cover, when he ran right upon a broad cattle trail. [13]
- Under the shelter of the foothills, cold as the day was, his cattle were feeding in the open, scratching away the thin layer of snow, and browsing on the tender grass underneath. [11]
- I'm getting rid of my cattle. [11]
- She had heard of milling stampeded cattle, and knew it was a feat accomplished by only the most daring riders. [13]
- Well, this herd of cattle started for the war. [5]
- The citizens' herds of cattle grazed between the defensive fortifications and the city wall, while beside and beyond them appeared villages and hamlets. [10]
- So the fleet of boats came up and went away loaded with provisions and cattle, and conveyed that welcome succor to the hungry city, managing the matter successfully under protection of a sortie from the walls against the bastille of St. Loup. [5]
- At the call of a noble sentiment, again the woods wave, the pines murmur, the river rolls and shines, and the cattle low upon the mountains, as he saw and heard them in his infancy. [6]
- Oldring's band did not confine themselves to the rustling of cattle. [13]
- Neither the nuns nor the men had thought of driving the cattle out. [10]
- A despotism has no use for anything but human cattle. [5]
- There was, however, no indication at all that he ever had driven cattle out at this point. [13]
- The latter possessed no herds of their own, but the former had many and both sheep and cattle were so terrified by the storm that they struggled against passing through the water, now a foot deep over the road. [10]
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