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  • The scent of dense green growth, irrigation mist, massive trees not butchered for their fodder, fattened, passive cattle.
  • The feeder pig is waiting to be fattened up.
  • Although some references explain its etymology as being from old French hutaudeau, meaning a pullet (a young hen), the derivation was in fact hétoudeau or hétourdeau which was a capon (a fattened cock fowl).
  • [Footnote: The ortolan is a very small bird, which is fattened in lamp lighted rooms at great expense, because it is found to be of a more delicate flavor when excluded from the daylight. History of King Charles the Second of England
  • A famed person and a fattened pig are alike in danger.
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  • The sheep fattened up quickly.
  • The limit of his agrarian radicalism was a demand, conceded by the British, for the removal of differential between Irish fat cattle and animals fattened in Britain.
  • But the father said to his slaves, “Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet; and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.” Recovering From Religious Abuse
  • Prodigal servings of pure saturated (often fluorescent) color are fattened further with a rich welter of tints, tones and shades.
  • Each year, the gross Social Security check is "fattened" by a few dollars. The Necessary Remedy
  • At the age of fifteen years he bought ten bonhams and fattened them and eventually increased to fifteen sows, selling off the bonhams.
  • I learned a lot, made good money (great money for the area where I lived) for six months, fattened my bank account, and then fled for California, where I spent a month hanging out in coffeehouses. What a writer’s gotta do «
  • Standing firm against the fattened are the calf-like, so we may die peacefully. All hearts share the same fears
  • It had fattened on the Cold War but was beginning to suffer from enemy deprivation syndrome - that is, the disorientation and queasy apprehension about future revenue one gets when one's enemy has irresponsibly dropped dead. Dedefensa
  • We used counties to examine the supply of phosphorus coming from confined animals including broilers, layers, turkeys, hogs and pigs, fattened cattle, and milk cows.
  • By the 16th century the British wild boar had become rare, and pigs, specially fattened on whey, were used instead.
  • Some may be based on birds in captivity in Europe that were unintentionally overfed, and fattened up beyond what would occur in nature.
  • Sheep fattened on the nutritious saltbush and found enough water. Bird Cloud
  • Sometimes cygnets would be captured in the wild and taken home to be fattened for the table, but many birds were kept in carefully tended swanneries within the grounds of monasteries or castles.
  • A famed person and a fattened pig are alike in danger.
  • Now that he's been loved and fattened, the old boy wags his tail and whimpers hello like a puppy.
  • A famed person and a fattened pig are alike in danger.
  • He may have fattened the bank accounts of a sizable bloc of Academy members-some three thousand people drew "Avatar" paychecks-but that doesn't mean that they all long to recrown him king of the world. The New Yorker
  • Does anyone have any doubt that ACORN's leaders have fattened their personal bank accounts with taxpayer money???? Obama: Taped ACORN misdeeds should be investigated
  • The scent of dense green growth, irrigation mist, massive trees not butchered for their fodder, fattened, passive cattle.
  • The hips and elbows and other bones of Nature stick out here and there in the shape of rocks which give character to the scenery, and an unchangeable, unpurchasable look to a landscape that without them would have been in danger of being fattened by art and money out of all its native features. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
  • They have kept the price of sugar artificially high and so fattened the company's profits.
  • As long as there were scraps of potatoes, carrots, turnips and the like, the pig could be fattened and eventually sold for profit.
  • Instead of sending them to feedlots to be fattened on grain, farmers are keeping animals home on the range.
  • Eventually those kind of fattened interests have a way of colliding with the king and need to be eliminated. Say Anything
  • Those corrupt officials fattened themselves by drinking the people's life - blood.
  • They fattened up ducks and geese.
  • [Kill the fattened tofu!] [And furiosity killed eight of them.] DUmmie FUnnies
  • Instead, tuna are taken from the wild, enclosed in nets and dragged to shore where they are corralled in pens and fattened on an oil-rich diet.
  • It's the same thing with beef, corn-fed beef from the States just doesn't compare to Western Canadian beef that's been pastured and then fattened up on wheat and barley.
  • The beccafico, however, is not as a rule artificially fattened, and on this account was preferred by some sensitive tastes to the ortolan.
  • The scent of dense green growth, irrigation mist, massive trees not butchered for their fodder, fattened, passive cattle.
  • Fattened and then abandoned by mothers who leave to mate anew, weaned elephant seal pups stick close together until ready for a first season at sea.
  • In our day De Quincey would have been the greatest magazinist of the age, because his best work was in the short essay; but it is to be feared that the publishers of his time fattened on the good things which he produced and gave small sums to the man who turned out these masterpieces with so little effort. Modern English Books of Power
  • These cattle are being fattened up for slaughter.
  • Bull calves from dairy herds are usually castrated, becoming steers, and sent to feedlots, where they are fattened for slaughter, usually before the age of 2.
  • Other outbuildings may include a rabbit hutch, a barn, and a separate structure where a hog is kept and fattened.
  • It was equally wasteful, too, for birds and beasts of prey fattened upon it and the outsetting current bore a burden of derelicts. The Winds of Chance
  • Although some references explain its etymology as being from old French hutaudeau, meaning a pullet (a young hen), the derivation was in fact hétoudeau or hétourdeau which was a capon (a fattened cock fowl).
  • I'm a purist and loathe the idea of fattened goose liver in my burger. Mark Strausman: Where's The Beef (From)?
  • By "porker", I refer to its traditional meaning of "fattened young pig" and not to its colloquial use for corpulent persons, although it's always fun to be provocative. Fat porkers get sacrificed
  • Sheep are fattened by twigs of the olive or of the oleaster, by vetch, and bran of every kind; and these articles of food fatten all the more if they be first sprinkled with brine. The History of Animals
  • It explained the fate of Montau* ban; a label fattened to it, was infcribed LAUDANUM; its deadly contents he Julia de Roubigné, by the author of The man of feeling
  • The change in personnel "fattened" the band's sound and added a new dimension of versatility to Sour Mash. Orangeleader.com (Orange, Texas) Homepage
  • You've fattened out during the winter.
  • A famed person and a fattened pig are alike in danger.
  • The cattle are being fattened for slaughter.
  • The number of land rigs in the U.S. drilling for natural gas is down 8% from a year ago, while oilrigs are up 81%, according to oilfield-service company Baker Hughes , Inc. In April, companies reported more rigs drilling for oil than gas for the first time since 1995, underscoring how oil's profit margins have fattened. As Natural Gas Prices Fall, the Search Turns to Oil

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