bovine

Their psychology is bovine, their outlook crude and rare; They abandon vital matters to be tickled with a straw; But the straw that they were tickled with--the chaff that they were fed with-- They convert into a weaver's beam to break their foeman's head with.

The ox--we may venture to assert it on the authority of a great classic--is not given to use his teeth as an instrument of attack, and Tom was an excellent bovine lad, who ran at questionable objects in a truly ingenious bovine manner; but he had blundered on Philip's tenderest point, and had caused him as much acute pain as if he had studied the means with the nicest precision and the most envenomed spite.

Had gloom but rested, no matter how lightly, on his brow, or had his bovine countenance grown long and serious and less like the moon, or had he removed that smile but once from off his face, I am sure I could have forgiven him for existing.

The Abbot, from his point of vantage, looked down on the two long lines of faces, placid and sun-browned for the most part, with the large bovine eyes and unlined features which told of their easy, unchanging existence.

Now and then there was a new arrival; perhaps a slouching labourer, who, having eaten his supper, came out to look at the unusual scene with a slow bovine gaze, willing to hear what any one had to say in explanation of it, but by no means excited enough to ask a question.

It is a kind of bovine temperament." Valentin had immediately been installed at the inn, and M.

There was, moreover, a certain alertness in her expression rarely found in the feminine population of Millbourne, who were apt to be slightly bovine.

with my own hand, which, as you will gather, was not very badly wounded; it was simply this third finger that was split and in splints; and next morning the doctor packed me off on a bovine beast that would have done for an ambulance.

He threw off his pack and went into the rush-grass on hands and knees, crunching and munching, like some bovine creature.

"Given our past experiences it is slightly worrying that the MEPs have asked the commission to review the voluntary rules on bovine in five years from now but we will continue to work in Brussels to make sure our cattle farmers do not suffer under this review."

Among the topics are the origins of cattle, cartography of the bovine genome, cattle comparative genomics and chromosomal evolution, bovine epigenetics and epigenomics, and genome-wide association studies with linkage disequilibrium in cattle.

THE minister responsible for bovine TB control in Wales was brought face-to-face with the trauma of living with the disease.