Cowboy's concern

Usage examples of calf.

There were still 62ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL more than thirty calves left in the building and the terrible thought arose that the disease might spread through all of them.

Softly he traced a blue vein that started under the delicate anklebone and disappeared up a curvaceous calf.

Below the towel the legs lay aligned in parallel, the knees, calves, and anklebones just touching in classic symmetry.

Aaron restored the worship of Apis when he made the golden calf, 369-m.

Yet I was disturbed when he spoke of a prodigy, for suddenly I remembered the birth of this Apis calf and my own fears.

So we went home as quickly as we could, and afterwards these priests removed the calf whither I knew not, without so much as paying me its price, to keep it until such time as it should take the place of the old Apis, which was so near to death that its sarcophagus was already fashioned and in its niche at the burying-place of bulls some leagues away.

Or it might have to do with the accursed Apis calf which had been born amongst my herd, that now would take the place of the old bull god they buried this day in the tomb of bulls.

The huge hike of the day before had left every joint in my body aching, my muscles, especially in my calves and hamstrings stiff as well as painful, and a huge heavy weight of tiredness on my shoulders.

Leo dropped to his knees and slashed at the calf of another: hamstringing was highly effective, if not at all the type of blow Asherah expected an aristocrat of Byzantium to resort to.

Grey Beallach drifted down into the glens to look for breakfast: hinds and calves moved up from the hazel shows to the high fresh pastures: the tiny rustling noises of night disappeared in that hush which precedes the awakening of life: and then came the flood of morning gold from behind the dim eastern mountains, and in an instant the earth had wheeled into a new day.

Tomas waded out into the harbor, his bicolor robe floating around his calves.

Across from me, Brenda was busily sketching and in a minute she showed us: a slim, leggy blonde with my hair and face, dressed in a skin-tight black bodysuit, a revolver strapped to her hip, a bow and quiver at her back, and a knife in a sheath at her calf.

The young calves scampered out of our way, but their sedate mothers permitted us to ride near enough to read the brands as we met and passed.

When the last tin was inside the shed, the doors shoved shut, the chains wrapped around the board, the deputy rested against his car, his breathing as labored as a bulldogger struggling with a calf.

They were bulldoggers, the boots favored by rodeo topers because the heels angled forward to give better traction when taking down a roped calf.