What is "domestic animal"

Usage examples of "domestic animal".

The Aquilian law ^169 defended the living property of a citizen, his slaves and cattle, from the stroke of malice or negligence: the highest price was allowed that could be ascribed to the domestic animal at any moment of the year preceding his death.

The former absence of food production in these lands was due entirely to their local paucity of domesticable wild animals and plants, and to geographic and ecological barriers that prevented the crops and the few domestic animal species of other parts of the Americas from arriving.

Those extinctions eliminated all the large wild animals that might otherwise have been candidates for domestication, and left native Australians and New Guineans with not a single native domestic animal.

Not a single domestic animal can be named which has not in some country drooping ears.

But, in truth, Stevie moped in the striking fashion of an unhappy domestic animal.

A slave, of course, being a domestic animal, cannot sign papers, not in a legal sense, no more than a tarsk or sleen.

His father had the air of ranging round about the shop in a reconnaissance, like an Indian or a wild animal, or like a domestic animal violently expelled.

But the big (Name) (Domestic animal) (Name) merely took one look at him, and lowered (his?

To infiltrate a foe's stronghold, druids often assume the shape of a domestic animal, allowing themselves to be bought at market or given as a gift--although those shapechanging into an edible animal should take care to avoid the stew pot!