Like newborns in a herd

Usage examples of unbranded.

Shaking out a loop, she adjusted her grip on the rope and walked her horse toward the herd to pick out an unbranded calf.

At the far end of the hollow, ground crews waited by branding fires while other riders, working in pairs, walked their horses into the herd and separated the unbranded calves, their ropes snaking out swift and sure to ensnare hind legs and drag them gently to the fire.

Only a month old and unbranded, of course, when your father and Warrigal managed to bone the old mare.

But they were either unbranded or branded with a letter and numbers to which no stock-owners in the district could lay claim.

I found I could get no attention there, while I carried an unbranded one.

Meanwhile several wayfaring men were met, but in order to avoid our dust, they took the right or unbranded side of our herd on meeting, and passed on their way without inquiry.

As nature had made this organ neither green nor blue nor yellow, there was nothing to know it by: it strayed and bleated like an unbranded sheep.

The problem could be a mickey bull, one of the unbranded , clean-skin bullocks that roamed the station in search of trouble.

On the other hand, the professional slaver, as a business practice, almost always brands his chattels, and it is seldom that an unbranded girl ascends the block.

She had started her herd by mavericking, taking possession of unbranded cattle.

That was one reason she was still alive and unbranded, so she intended to go on that way for the rest of her life.

My spoken English is blank, scrubbed clean and unbranded, except for an occasional beauty spot: a deliberate sub-Saharan lilt, which I refer to sportingly as my drop of milk in the coffee.

But these were only marked stuff previously branded and any attempt including a cow with an unbranded calf was instantly blocked.

So far as they knew, Bertram was the only man living in whom they could confide, unbranded as outrageous liars.

He'd rattle off five or six different questions and opinions, running them all together like so many unbranded cattle--it made it hard to pick out one and think about it carefully and slowly, the only ways Pea Eye liked to think.