How To Use Horned In A Sentence
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I sprinted through brambles and thorned blackberry bushes and pushed my way past overgrown, waist-high swordfern.
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It seemed to have been shoehorned into the schedules as an afterthought.
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Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata.
Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
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The banner is the Horned Shield on a flame-colored background with buckskin fringe.
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Cymbopogon spp. (ganaune gans) is another short grass species that occurs in distinct associations on the floodplain and is eaten by greater one-horned rhinoceroses and elephants.
Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
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Like most owls, Great Horned Owls have keen hearing and keen vision in low light, both adaptations for hunting at night.
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The juniper forest of north central Baluchistan is believed to be the most extensive remaining in the world and is home to the distinctive and highly threatened Baluchistan bear and straight-horned markhor.
Baluchistan xeric woodlands
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The once-widespread scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah, EW) and bubal hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus) have been exterminated entirely from the region.
South Saharan steppe and woodlands
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With some horned helmets and a couple of axes they would have fitted right in on the deck of a longship.
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Yet a number of the large animal species found at La Brea are no longer found in North America: native horses, camels, mammoths and mastodons, longhorned bison, and sabre-toothed cats.
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A horned and fanged bilat, its talons and the corners of its mouth dripping gore, a creature to whom the term nightmarish truly applied.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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Those blessed battlements (which had been of so much help to him ever since he had dashed from the wall across the grounds) were, now that he came to think of it, one of the recognized symbols in art of Sphigx, the lion-goddess of war; and Lion had been the name of Mucor's horned cat-of the animal she called her lynx, which had not harmed him.
Nightside The Long Sun
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In the forest the woodchopper comes first; on the fertile prairies the granger is the pioneer; but on the long, stretching uplands of the far West it is the men who guard and follow the horned herds that prepare the way for the settlers who come after.
The Cattle Country of the Far West
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It was a quarter moon, what Papa called a horned moon, and I thought I could see the profile of the man in the moon, old and withered looking.
My Sweet Audrina
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These elaborately painted masks represent a pair of horned animals, each with a porcupine quill sprouting from its head.
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This cow, from the broad horned Norfolk breed and sired by a bull of the Bakewell breed, was considered extraordinarily fine and became known as ‘The Westbrook Heifer.’
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Their cars are shoehorned into tiny spaces.
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Dr. Scoville, though he still kept his word and maintained his position with regard to the prisoners, continually "thorned" the captain with a prospect of the gallows, which he declared was his certain doom.
The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer
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Perhaps John wants his audience to also think of Dan 8, where a two-horned ram represents the Medo Persian empire (8:20).
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They shoehorned some of them in but the British travellers clearly felt that it smacked of tokenism.
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The violets, the marigold, the cannas; they were all gone in favor of the thorned monstrosities.
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This includes the horned dinosaurs, duckbills, stegosaurs and armored dinosaurs.
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Everywhere, black, thorned leaves stormed down on the citizenry, piercing their flesh or leaving long, vicious cuts.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
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So thick are the palisades of thorny mimosa -- an aggressive weed akin to the touch-me-not -- that India's endangered one-horned rhino can no longer move about freely in Kaziranga National Park.
Attack Of the Aliens
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In a mouth-watering programme full of enticing - nay, galvanic - events, there are 550 authors shoehorned into two packed weeks.
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Yesterday's birding at Colt State Park in Rhode Island yielded two sure signs of winter: horned larks and brant.
Still here
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Central America "[and in fact America as a whole]" and the Old World, "makes the following statement (in the course of a discussion of the myths relating to horned snakes in California):" a similar monster, possessing antlers, and sometimes wings, is also very common in Algonkin and Iroquois legends, although rare in art.
The Evolution of the Dragon
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Common and characteristic plants include several acacias: boat-thorned acacia (Acacia cochliacantha), and tree catclaw, or tésota (Acacia occidentalis).
Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest
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The grasslands in the park consist of chinkara (the Indian gazelle), nilgai (the blue bull), chausingha (the four-horned antelope) and wild boar.
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There are more than 1,500 kinds of plants in these forests, including 19 kinds of rare plants such as the thorned cyathea spinulosa, the Chinese double-fan fern, the Chinese goose-palm catalpa and the yinque tree.
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But it won't be enough: The Horned Frogs will be cozied up at home by the time January 3 rolls around.
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The Asian longhorned beetle that invaded New York in 1996 has since killed thousands of the state's hardwood trees, including maples, elms, willows, and poplars.
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Curious tourists gathered on Edinburgh's Royal Mile as volunteers, some climbing into the roof of the booth, others sitting on each other, slowly shoehorned themselves into the tiny space.
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The ancients, who had a very faint and imperfect knowledge of the great peninsula of Africa, were sometimes tempted to believe, that the torrid zone must ever remain destitute of inhabitants; 126 and they sometimes amused their fancy by filling the vacant space with headless men, or rather monsters; 127 with horned and cloven-footed satyrs; 128 with fabulous centaurs; 129 and with human pygmies, who waged a bold and doubtful warfare against the cranes.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Between the Nauset Marshes, Corn Hill, Pilgrim Beach, and the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary we saw 56 species, 13 of them new for Eric, including semipalmated plovers, long-billed dowitchers, lesser yellowlegs, and a horned lark.
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Lakes and ponds have buttonbush, pickerel weed, bulltongue arrowhead, horned bladderwort, water milfoil, and water-shield growing in the water.
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No. 21 TCU (11-2): Defensive backfield is strongest unit in Horned Frogs 'recruiting class.
Top programs replenished their rosters on signing day
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In Italy, you can make the "horned hand" or mano cornuto.
Alison Stein Wellner: A Warning to All the Thankful
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Power radiates from it, cold and razor-thorned, prickles against her skin, her face.
Black Dust Mambo
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It was a winged creature: if bird, then greater than all other birds, and it was naked, and neither quill nor feather did it bear, and its vast pinions were as webs of hide between horned fingers; and it stank.
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During winter Horned Grebes are a very common visitor on the coast, in Puget Sound, and in other inland marine waters.
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And so you may be apprised of everything, there will come for you a black horned beast, not overbig, which will go capering about the piazza before you and making a great whistling and bounding, to terrify you; but, when he seeth that you are not to be daunted, he will come up to you quietly.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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A hart pass.ppr. horned, membered and hurt in haunch with arrow or feathered ar.
A History of Caroline County, Virginia
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The scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah), now presumed to be extinct in the wild, dama gazelle (Gazella dama, EN), dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas, VU) and red-fronted gazelle (Gazella rufifrons, VU) were all formerly abundant and widespread, as was the now extinct sub-species of the common hartebeest, the bubal hartebeest (Alcelaphus busephalus buselaphus).
Sahelian Acacia savanna
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Even so, they might have managed to scrape through the winter on their stock of frozen salmon and stored blubber, and what the traps gave them, but in December one of their hunters came across a tupik (a skin-tent) of three women and a girl nearly dead, whose men had come down from the far North and been crushed in their little skin hunting-boats while they were out after the long-horned narwhal.
The Second Jungle Book
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Brace yourself for Richard the Lionheart in Maximilian plate, and Vikings with horned helmets and furry trousers.
There's nothing like a good longsword fight...
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The predators included 13 raptors, ranging from great-horned owls to the American kestrel, and a domestic cat and a ferret.
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They explore the wonders of nature from songbirds to horned deer.
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Why don't horned herbivores, constantly threatened by predators like lions and tigers, gang up on them instead of always running away?
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'Was it not a shame,' he said, 'that she should exhibit herself before any gentleman in such a light, as if she shed tears for a drove of horned nolt and milch kine, like the daughter of a Cheshire yeoman!
Waverley — Complete
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He was wearing full, sweeping chaparejos, and on the blaze-faced roan he rode was a high-horned
The Pride of Hannah Wade
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The men wear a horned headdress with a tall tuft of feathers and a fringe of cowry shells dangling over their faces.
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Towards the west end of the zoo were a number of large paddocks, home to zebras, deer, horned oryx and Przewalski wild horses.
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Thus, there is an economic incentive to dehorn horned calves or to raise polled calves.
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When an animal is “dehorned,” the horn has to be cut off at the base to remove the generative tissue—that produces a hole in the skill exposing the brain.
Archive 2010-06-01
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Insects like Asian long-horned beetles and coniferous nematodes, says the website for Cherry's Industrial Equipment Corp., of Elk Grove, Ill., which sells plastic pallets.
Loaded Issue: Pallet Makers Sling Mud Over Who's Greenest
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The Italian phrase is "becco cornuto" (horned goat), which the Accademici della Crusca explain by averring that that animal, unlike others can without anger bear a rival in his female's love.
Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850
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horned viper
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It now stretched more than eight feet in height, its sub-branches all at least three to four feet themselves and covered with scores of the dark, thorned leaves.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
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We have a long list of businesses which are shoehorned into premises which aren't suitable for their needs.
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Horned gods are by definition cuckold gods.
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Viking warrior in horned helmet with sword and shield advances from dragon ship, NORSE AMERICAN CENTENNIAL, 1825 – 1925.
Unusual Items : 1925 Norse American Medal in Gold : Coin Collecting News
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Her hair was neat but there was nothing she could do about the pink marks on her forehead, like a steer that had just been dehorned.
Law of Attraction
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A yellow variety which stains water and has a faint odor is adulterated with the horned-poppy (glaucium).
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Across the open grasslands are scattered various members of the antelope family - horned bushbucks, waterbucks, eland, topi, gazelle and impala.
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What we wind up with is not a doomy trip-hop soundscape with new styles shoehorned into every track.
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The spiderlings of the horned baboon spider only commence moving about 50 days after hatching.
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Other predators are red foxes, coyotes, wolves, bear, mountain lions, lynx, bobcats, eagles, and great horned owls.
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The flare horned markhor, sarmantier (Vormela peregusna), hyena, wolf, and leopard are also threatened in this ecoregion.
Sulaiman Range alpine meadows
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In some cases horned animals are harnessed to simple ploughs.
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The other, the four-horned antelope, is far stranger in appearance.
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As a result, Texas now has more than a quarter million exotic animals, mostly from Africa and Asia, of which three—the scimitar-horned oryx, the addax, and the Dama gazelle—have been brought back from the brink of extinction.
In Praise of 'Enviropreneurs'
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Several lizard species that are adapted to the exposed, sun-baked landscape of West Texas are indicative of the succulent desert shrubland: the round-tailed horned lizard, the checkered whiptail, and the greater earless lizard.
Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
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The spiral horned antelope are represented by the sitatunga and bushbuck.
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The hill was surrounded by the rich, seemingly infinite marshlands of Kamarg — a lonely landscape populated by wild white bulls, horned horses, and giant scarlet flamingoes so large they could easily lift a grown man.
Archive 2010-02-01
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This tiny restaurant is shoehorned between two major banks.
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Ahhh the thorned bee, such a lovely depiction of this seldom seen shy creature.
...But the Words Get in the Way
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With regard to the second question, it is a matter of importance that although we have hitherto not discovered any Ruminants with this modification of the teeth, still less any cavicorn or sheath-horned
More Science From an Easy Chair
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A spokeswoman for the station said: ‘The general notion is of Vikings with horned helmets raping and pillaging but that is not really true.’
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Their predators include great horned owls, bobcats, cougars, coyotes, and foxes, so wariness is in their blood.
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He collected numerous heads from his hunting days, including one of each: blackbuck, scimitar horned oryx, elk, fallow, pronghorn, boar, etc.
Our Father enjoyed hunting big-game for several years, and read various hunting magazines. Sadly, he passed away in Nov 2008.
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Also a great variety of tropical marine birds including rufescent tiger-heron (Tigrisoma lineatum), wood stork (Mycteria americana), and horned screamer (Anhima cornuta) are just a few species present in this ecoregion, not to mention invertebrates such as shrimp, crabs and mollusks.
Gulf of Guayaquil-Tumbes mangroves
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They were piled high with supplies and yoked to two matched horned lizards apiece, the kind of dray animals who could handle smooth roads or rough trails with ease.
The Day of the Dissonance
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The horned lizard is a seemingly normal looking lizard found in the southwest region of the United States.
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Great Horned Owls do not build their own nests, but use nests built by hawks, crows, magpies, herons, or other large birds.
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Most cattle are “dehorned” when young, either by cauterizing, cutting or a new paste on the market.
What’s the singular form of ‘cattle’? « Motivated Grammar
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Also known as Barbary sheep, aoudads are horned sheep that exist primarily in the mountains of Africa.
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Across the open grasslands are scattered various members of the antelope family - horned bushbucks, waterbucks, eland, topi, gazelle and impala.
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They are allowed a few bolstering bits of flimsy cloth to try to retain an air of modesty despite being shoehorned into bras that are less about pushing up, and more about throwing out.
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I also discovered what a kistvaen is by the simple process of falling into one (a burial hole ill-covered by a cracked and unbalanced slab of stone), and we met a herd of immensely shaggy, long-horned highland cattle, looking very much like prehistoric creatures recently risen from some weed-grown swamp.
The Moor
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In the west, cross-bred lambs are making 10-12 euro with their weight and the smaller horned lambs are making 2-3 euro with their weight.
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Currently Mr Rushton farms 450 acres with horned sheep and suckler cattle.
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She was a kind woman, and seemed skeely about horned beasts.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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These crumply-nosed, curly-horned, taupe-colored, kinky-haired merinos are the toughest of New Zealand's 40 million sheep, enduring high elevation, scorching summers, and brutal winters.
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The home should be inspected for all wood-destroying insects, including subterranean and dry wood termites, longhorned wood borers, metallic wood borers, powder post beetles, anobiid beetles, carpenter ants, velvety tree ants and carpenter bees.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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Representative birds include boreal and great horned owl, blue jay and evening grosbeak.
Northern Forests ecoregion (CEC)
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Most North American lizards belong to this family, including the collared lizards, the utas, the swifts, the so-called horned toads, or horned lizards, and the American chameleon, or anole (not a true chameleon).
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“Teil care an they did,” said Donald, “an that were the warst o’t, for we have a wheen canny trewsmen here that wadna let us want if there was a horned beast atween this and Perth.
A Legend of Montrose
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horny (or horned) frog
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Small numbers of scimiter-horned oryx (Oryx dammah, EX) may have also occurred in the past.
Sahara desert
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The addax (Addax nasomaculatus, CR), and scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah, EN) were also once found in this ecoregion but are now thought to be extinct in the wild.
West Saharan montane xeric woodlands
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With language this broad, the only way a “new” terrorist threat would arise that could not be shoehorned into an existing intercept authorization is if disgruntled Walloons form the Belgian Liberation Front and begin assaulting the American Homeland with suicide waffles.
In Which My Head Explodes
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Across the open grasslands are scattered various members of the antelope family - horned bushbucks, waterbucks, eland, topi, gazelle and impala.
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Their predators include great horned owls, bobcats, cougars, coyotes, and foxes, so wariness is in their blood.
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The horned capucin, or sapajou (Cebus fatuellus), is remarkable for two points of hair which stand out from the forehead, and give it the appearance of having horns.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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Bonelli's eagle, the tawny eagle, the brown fish-owl, the rock horned-owl, the raven, the amadavat and the white-throated munia.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India
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We made the driver stop and walked for a companionable half-hour with two herdsmen, striding along at the head of their great mass of long horned cattle.
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It's a greater/mountain short-horned lizard, Phrynosoma hernandesi.
Field Update
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Whether it's horned dinosaurs, crested duck-billed dinosaurs, plated stegosaurs, or dome-headed dinosaurs, paleontologists identify different species largely by these bizarre structures.
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` ` Teil care an they did, '' said Donald, ` ` an that were the warst o't, for we have a wheen 'canny trewsmen here that wadna let us want if there was a horned beast atween this and Perth.
A Legend of Montrose
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The tragopans are horned pheasants with short bills and tail feathers that are shorter than wing length.
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The huge antler spikes were within a few yards of her, and in a flash of numbing fear she remembered Mortimer's warning, to beware of horned beasts on the farm.
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When the long-horned little cow had been salted and foddered in the new barn, and when her liquid eyes had taken in the surroundings of the sunny little meadow and cabin by the lonely Quah-Davic, she was well enough content, and the mellow _tunk-a-tonk, tank tonk_ of her bell was sounded never out of ear-shot from the cabin.
The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life
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Half of the proposed new homes will be shoehorned into the current school site which is a protected recreational site in the centre and at the heart of our village.
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A grand piano is shoehorned into the rectangular room, bay-fronted on to a hill of semi-detached houses on the south Essex coast.
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The town had fewest species, but many of these showed larger numbers here than in the other ecosystems, e.g., semipalmated sandpipers, horned larks, savannah sparrows, white-crowned sparrows, and Lapland longspurs.
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Other foods children requested after the tour included horned melon, pomelo, vegetable soup, turnip, spinach, soymilk, red cabbage, sweet potato, and tofu.
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How many Americans can claim herds of scimitar-horned oryx as their very own?
Mark Morford: Psst, Wanna Kill a Scimitar-Horned Oryx?
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Instead of the typical clan tartans, the Orkney ferry is decorated with posters of dragon-bowed great boats and warriors in horned helmets shoving flaming coffins out into the waves.
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Coahuilaceratops is a chasmosaurine ceratopsid, often called a "ceratopsian" or "horned" dinosaur, and was almost certainly an herbivore.
EurekAlert! - Breaking News
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In Lower Austria the saint is followed by a similar horned creature, called Krampus, covered with bells and dragging chains; in Styria this attendant is named Bartel.
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His long, grayish hair was woven and braided about a huge horned headdress, and his midnight blue and evergreen robes were embroidered in silver.
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On a private game reserve, Intu Afrika, the acacia trees hide giraffes, oryx (a large, straight-horned antelope), eland and ostriches.
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` ` Was it not a shame, '' he said, ` ` that she should exhibit herself before any gentleman in such a light, as if she shed tears for a drove of horned nolt and milch kine, like the daughter of
The Waverley
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The trophy was commissioned as part of Dublin's millennial celebrations and is in the shape of a horned Viking helmet.
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Increases in the mean male body size in a population are therefore predicted to cause increases in the threshold body size that separates horned and hornless male morphs.
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It turns out that only some male horned scarab beetles grow long horns and battle for mates.
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Horned Overseers can commit a suicide explosion.
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He describes the silk worm as a horned worm, which he calls bombyx, which passes through several transformations, and produces bombytria.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson
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In his CALL OF THE HORNED PIPER, Nigel Jackson gives a simple sort of ‘Eucharist’ consecration for hallowing bread and some milk or ale to the fey.
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Well, then, here is to your good health! for you must know, I have set a nipperkin of toddy by me, just by way of spell, to keep away the meikle horned deil, or any of his subaltern imps who may be on their nightly rounds.
The Letters of Robert Burns
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Saguaros in bloom, the glare of a horned owl and javelinas rooting for a bite to eat.
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The big problem for tablet PCs for me besides weak screen hinges and losing styli.. ugh was that operating systems they run have been designed and tweaked over decades for point-and-click with a keyboard and mouse and just don't work well when shoehorned to fit a finite-point tap-and-draw interface.
WhyPad?
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Marauding warriors with horned helmets who slaughtered monks and carried off treasures are at the heart of the popular image of the Viking invasions of the British Isles.
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Like most owls, Great Horned Owls have keen hearing and keen vision in low light, both adaptations for hunting at night.
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The Middle Ages, more than any other period, are rich in instances of that intimate blending of the comic and the horrible which we call the grotesque; the witches 'Sabbath, the hoofed and horned devil, the hideous figures of Dante's hell; the
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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Flowers a yellowish-green; leaves nearly round, bluntly lobed, crenate or round toothed, the teeth horned or pointed; the colour is inclined to auburn during autumn, but it varies, and for a botanical description it would be hard to state a particular colour.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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Instead of the typical clan tartans, the Orkney ferry is decorated with posters of dragon-bowed great boats and warriors in horned helmets shoving flaming coffins out into the waves.
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We know that the Three-horned Osmia prefers to haunt the habitations of the Bees who nidify in populous colonies, such as the Mason-bee of the
Bramble-Bees and Others
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Horned Hand or The Mano Cornuto: This gesture is the Satanic salute, a sign of recognition between and allegiance of members of Satanism or other unholy groups.
The Hack 2.0 Signal : Horned Hand spells Satanic Trouble
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A year later, 140 black rhinos out of 305 remaining in the country, and 123 white rhinos out of 198 remaining, had been dehorned.
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The bulls will be dehorned and the participants will have to register a month in advance, take a drug test and be required to wear helmets.
Sanmiguelada
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In the west, cross-bred lambs are making 10-12 euro with their weight and the smaller horned lambs are making 2-3 euro with their weight.
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Greater kudu, bushbuck and eland, the spiral-horned tribe of antelope approach watering points with caution because of lions which patronise these areas.
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It turns out that only some male horned scarab beetles grow long horns and battle for mates.
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The gestation period was five months, a timetable shared by the slender-horned gazelle, blackbuck antelope, and pygmy goat.
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The writings comprised cascade upon cascade of dramas small and large concertinaed into a few hundred words; entertaining to read, but it felt like she had harvested a week's worth of incident and excitement and shoe-horned them into a day or less.
The confusing world of Katharine Birbalsingh
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Small numbers of scimiter-horned oryx (Oryx dammah, EX) may have also occurred.
Saharan halophytics
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We drove past brown, sandy hills crowned by patches of cacti with round, thorned leaves.
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Out of sight a bird called, an early arrival, perhaps a horned lark.
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Their predators include great horned owls, bobcats, cougars, coyotes, and foxes, so wariness is in their blood.
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Composite creatures based on the lion - for example, sphinxes, griffins, or horned and winged lions - place the imagery in the realm of the supernatural.
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A pamphlet of 1639 showed Robin as a horned, hoofed, ithyphallic satyr, leading witches' revels in the company of a black dog and an owl.
Robin Hood
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The twig girdler is a long-horned, wood-boring beetle that lives in many hardwoods in Florida but does not cause serious damage.
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The uncommon to rare flammulated owl can raise a pair of short, rather wimpy “horns, †but the great horned, screech and long
The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE
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From their shaking crowns fell hundreds of smaller thorned leaves.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
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The endearing symbol of the museum is Spooky, patterned after a great horned owl that was donated to the organization as an owlet in 1951 and which lived to the age of 38 years.
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-- It is a lamentable fact that some, at least, of the United States herds of prong-horned antelope are afflicted with a very deadly chronic infective disease known as actinomycosis, or lumpy-jaw.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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Goats and sheep thrive; and Nyango, the chieftainess further to the south, has herds of horned cattle.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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The residue of the compasse of it was couered with a blacke roundell, which comming downe by little and little, threw about the horned brightnesse that remained, till both the hornes came to hang downe on either side to the earthwards; and as the blacke roundell went by little & little forwards, the homes at length were turned towards the west, and so the blacknesse passing awaie, the sunne receiued his brightnesse againe.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
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That is how the horned god came to be seen as the devil: a beastlike figure used by early Christians to engender fear of nature religions.
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This ecoregion harbors India's largest elephant population, the world's largest population of the greater one-horned rhinoceros, tigers (Panthera tigris), and wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee).
Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests
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Horned larks appear to come into the Hamlet to feed on grit and seeds.
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Other predators are red foxes, coyotes, wolves, bear, mountain lions, lynx, bobcats, eagles, and great horned owls.
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Between the Nauset Marshes, Corn Hill, Pilgrim Beach, and the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary we saw 56 species, 13 of them new for Eric, including semipalmated plovers, long-billed dowitchers, lesser yellowlegs, and a horned lark.
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All matings were between cows and bulls of the same breed except for nine Polled Hereford sires, which were bred to both Horned Hereford and Polled Hereford cows.
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It is found in the Endymion (a circular walled plain) in company with a small kind of reindeer, the elk, the moose, and the horned bear, and is described as the biped beaver.
Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
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Lakes and ponds have buttonbush, pickerel weed, horned bladderwort and water milfoil growing in the water.
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In some case horned animals are harnessed to simple ploughs.
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Certainly there is a great variety of experiences, skills and knowledge for students to gain from work terms that could not be shoehorned into specific courses.
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They were piled high with supplies and THE DAY OF TOR DISSONANCE yoked to two matched horned lizards apiece, the kind of dray animals who could handle smooth roads or rough trails with ease.
The Day of the Dissonance
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But the sport also cannot be shoehorned into an ideal mold of globalization, even as globalization cannot quite set its foot straight in world soccer.
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Just two pests — hemlock woolly adelgid and Asian long-horned beetle — could virtually destroy old-growth hemlock-hardwood forests in wilderness areas, creating an abundance of fuel and coarse woody debris.
Beyond Old Growth~ Chapter 5
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Similar patterns hold for many horned or antlered mammals, including African antelope, deer, and pronghorn.
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Longhorned beetles known as twig girdlers are now laying eggs in the small branches of many hardwood trees.
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Huddled behind thorned bushes and high grass, the families watched as their huts - including one for grain storage - were burned.
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Someone mentioned something about Bendis takes Jessica Jones along with him to 'New Avengers'...why not, he retconned/shoehorned her into Avengers continuity so much so that in Secret Invasion, she's one of the older heoroes who 'reappear'...can we have both versions revealed as Skrulls already and kill them off?
Comics You Should Own flashback – Alias | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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Common reptiles in the ecoregion include the horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) and desert varan (Varanus griseus).
North Saharan steppe and woodlands
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“Dehorned” may be a misnomer in many cases as the young calves typically have not started growing their horns yet – it is the growth ring that is cauterized (which is, by the way, probably the most frequent way to “dehorn”).
What’s the singular form of ‘cattle’? « Motivated Grammar
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At least when not faced with mind-bending sights like the Cerunnos or bewinged and behorned demons.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior
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She has applied for cash from the committee to buy hawthorn and other thorned bushes, which would be planted around the cemetery's borders.
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The Horned Grebe is a small grebe with a straight bill, thick neck, and squarish head.
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Certain prey like bush pig and warthog, with their razor-sharp tusks, are handled differently from the horned and kicking antelopes.
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South Africa, distinguished by the Bechuanas by the names of the borele or black rhinoceros, the keitloa or two-horned rhinoceros, the muchocho or common white rhinoceros, and the kobaoba or long-horned white rhinoceros.
Forest & Frontiers
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I. ii.123 (266,6) [We must be neat] Leontes, seeing his son's nose smutched, cries, _We must be neat_, then recollecting that _neat_ is the term for _horned_ cattle, he says, _not neat, but cleanly_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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I had no friendly feeling for the hippopotamus, the kamichi, or horned screamer, and the zebu, who aimed at making me say H, K and
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
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Another sharp-toothed, horned demon - this one vermilion - appears in Area 213.
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While naming an administrator is important, I'd hate to see someone shoehorned into the position simply to stop the "name an administrator now!" crowd.
NASA Administrator: A New Name Is Circulating - NASA Watch
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By the lard! the judge must have been in the terrors of cuckoldom, to influence the decision; and the jury a mere herd of horned beasts, to bring in such a barbarous verdict.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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The book lacks a discography but just about everything else, relevant or otherwise, is shoehorned into these 738 pages.
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Thus among our horned cattle, the Jerseys have been brought to a point where, from the iniquitous inbreeding, which is against what may be called the morality of nature, they are fearfully subjected to tuberculosis.
Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization
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Goliath is a horrific giant cyclops; the drowning sinners trying to claw their way onto Noah's Ark are caught in flashbulb moments of terror and agony; Saul's army rends the raw meat of their slaughter as they try to avoid starvation; the mutilated corpses of Baanah and Rechab dangle from nooses in Hebron; the boiled heads of donkeys emerge from the cooking pot as starving Israelites look on with hungry eyes; Daniel's horned beast crushes a mountain of screaming men and women as it stalks the land; and in Revelations, the rains of fire, floods and famine lay waste to cities as horribly burned famine victims scream and claw at their flesh.
Boing Boing
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He collected numerous heads from his hunting days, including one of each: blackbuck, scimitar horned oryx, elk, fallow, pronghorn, boar, etc.
Our Father enjoyed hunting big-game for several years, and read various hunting magazines. Sadly, he passed away in Nov 2008.
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Handily, there is a glossary, so that you, too, will know that a tufter is an old hound, and a stirk is a shorthorned bullock.
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Several lizard species that are adapted to the exposed, sun-baked landscape of West Texas are indicative of the succulent desert shrubland: the round-tailed horned lizard, the checkered whiptail, and the greater earless lizard.
Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
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Four large herbivores, the Asian elephant, greater one-horned rhinoceros, gaur (seasonal occupant), and nilgai or blue bull (in drier grasslands) also co-exist.
Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
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Slim turbaned Indians blew through long pipes of reed or brass and charmed-or feigned to charm-great hooded snakes and horrible horned adders.
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‘The Asian long horned beetle could potentially damage or kill 80 per cent of Calgary's trees once established,’ the report stated.
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the rhino horned the explorer
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Interesting trees of the tropical quebradas include the toat-thorned acacia (tepemezquite), tree catclaw (tésota, guache), many other catclaws and gatuños (Acacia spp.), black tower (torote prieto), papelillos, mountain ebony, arborescent morning glory (palo santo or palo bobo), and pochotes.
Wildflower hunting in Durango
