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  • Glancing up, Peter could see two does-one older, one a yearling.†   (source)
  • "I hear it's a Yearling."†   (source)
  • Although he was a yearling and still below full weight, he had not the harassed look of most "outskirters"—that is, the rank and file of ordinary rabbits in their first year who, lacking either aristocratic parentage or unusual size and strength, get sat on by their elders and live as best they can—often in the open—on the edge of their warren.†   (source)
  • I've seen them vaqueros worked for Blair cut a yearling heifer so thin you could see through the meat.†   (source)
  • Each spring, all the ranchers would have what they call a roundup, which apparently involved collecting and branding all of the new calves, called yearlings, which had been born since the last roundup.†   (source)
  • Orrin was like a yearling mule: stubborn, overconfident, and all too willing to kick you in the gut if you gave him the opportunity.†   (source)
  • He rode up to a little brindled cow, meaning to take her yearling calf, and while he was easing the calf away from her the cow turned mean suddenly and hooked Mouse right back of the girth.†   (source)
  • It may have been the fastest quarter ever run by a yearling.†   (source)
  • He watched a man tie a yearling tight by its neck to a fence, hobble a hind leg then beat it into submission with a length of zinc piping.†   (source)
  • Then he told about one time ten or fifteen years ago when the southbound train ran over a bull yearling on a curve.†   (source)
  • I got offered five hundred for my yearling oxen.†   (source)
  • Next to this house was a corral with a few grazing mares and a couple of energetic yearlings leaping and galloping around.†   (source)
  • As yearlings they had passed over the village in the fall, crossing lands they had never seen and with no older bird to guide them, Yet they had known their way to the southern valley where their kind had wintered for untold centuries, as now they knew their way back to the nesting place.†   (source)
  • In a clearing near him a small herd of yearling bachelor buck were cropping grass; if one came close enough Rod intended to dine on buck.†   (source)
  • "Well done for a yearling!" said the Sea Lion, who could appreciate good swimming.   (source)
    yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
  • Hi, you yearling, where did you get that white coat?   (source)
  • Then he remembered in a flash what the Burgomaster gull had screamed to him when he was a little yearling at Walrus Islet, and he tumbled backward in the water, for he knew that he had found Sea Cow at last.   (source)
  • The Yearling was already broke to a halter and lead, so Shawn brought out the saddle that first day.†   (source)
  • "How would a woman's arrow kill a yearling impala?†   (source)
  • She wasn't even a yearling yet, still clumsy and often foolish.†   (source)
  • Training yearlings is much more exacting.†   (source)
  • But when Shawn hoisted himself into the saddle, the Yearling merely skittered.†   (source)
  • That evening Edgar pulled two yearlings into the kennel aisle and got the grooming tackle.†   (source)
  • He clapped up Almondine and they went through a few retrieves while the yearlings watched.†   (source)
  • He had nearly achieved his goal of buying every single Hard Tack yearling on the market.†   (source)
  • One of the yearlings nickered softly at the far end of the pen.†   (source)
  • Not even a one-eyed Yearling with a lame arm would miss a shot that easy.†   (source)
  • Five minutes before, he had been pulling a yearling out of a bog.†   (source)
  • "Anyway," Tom went on after it was said, "Joe here's going to be helping me with the yearlings.†   (source)
  • That summer, he and Marcela bought fifteen yearlings at a Saratoga, New York, auction.†   (source)
  • The rumors were right—the deserter's a Fourth-Yearling, no older than ten.†   (source)
  • The old steer was twice as big as most of the scrawny yearlings that made up the herd.†   (source)
  • Some of the yearlings in the far paddock were already seeking the shade of the cotton woods.†   (source)
  • The Commandant's silver face reveals nothing as she looks down at the Yearling.†   (source)
  • A Yearling jogs toward me, a note in his hand.†   (source)
  • After breakfast they were going to start working with some of the yearlings.†   (source)
  • Tom and Grace had strolled over to the back pen where he kept the yearlings.†   (source)
  • The students drain out of the courtyard, the older ones half dragging, half carrying the Yearlings.†   (source)
  • Did we never laugh together as Yearlings?†   (source)
  • Across the hall, most of the Yearlings smile and laugh like everyone else.†   (source)
  • A group of Yearlings watches us with interest, scurrying away only when Helene snarls at them.†   (source)
  • A few of the Yearlings stare at the execution platform with a frightened sort of fascination.†   (source)
  • "Pity the Yearlings," Demetrius counters.†   (source)
  • The Yearling pawed the dirt nervously when he saw it; Shawn moved slowly, letting him smell the stirrups and nibble curiously at the horn.†   (source)
  • No, it's a yearling, he signed.†   (source)
  • Edgar's father used the extra time to place yearlings and plan litters, spending days on the telephone and writing letters and poring over records.†   (source)
  • That's why he started keeping them until they were yearlings—said most people had no idea how to handle a pup.†   (source)
  • ON SATURDAY, HIS PARENTS took a trio of yearlings to Phillips for Ice Age Days to proof them around crowds.†   (source)
  • By midmorning his mother had worked the two pups, then the six-month-olds and the yearlings, and rotated back to the pups.†   (source)
  • After they cleared the table and washed dishes, they walked to the barn and checked the night rotation schedule and pulled two yearlings to bring up to the house.†   (source)
  • The three yearlings, excited by his mother's appearance, began to lift their haunches off the floor and Edgar stepped into their line of sight and caught their gazes until they settled back into sits.†   (source)
  • His mother still handled the younger pups herself, but when it came to working the yearlings, willful and strong enough to pull her off balance, his father came up to the mow.†   (source)
  • For a long time people kept appearing at the top of the path—trainers who had adopted yearlings, men whose voices had sped across the telephone lines in conversation with Edgar's father—and Claude directed them along.†   (source)
  • When they finished, Edgar's parents returned to the kennel and went to work, their work, the work that never ended, for the dogs were hungry, and one of the mothers was sick and her pups would have to be hand-fed and the yearlings, unruly and headstrong, desperately needed training.†   (source)
  • From the town of Learning, a perfect yoke of matched yearlings by name of Bob and Bib, owned by Mr. Benjamin Franklin Tanner, and worked in the ring by Mr. Robert Peck.†   (source)
  • Before they had reached the Belt, Groundsel's party was attacked by a pair of stoats, one old and the other a yearling.†   (source)
  • Several hundred calves had been born since they left Texas; many were yearlings, and a struggle to brand.†   (source)
  • Intown to bid on the yearling sales on behalf of Bing Crosby, they had stopped by the track to take in a few races.†   (source)
  • Newt had to wade out into the mud three times to lift the hind ends of the bogged yearlings, while Needle roped the animals by the head and drug them out.†   (source)
  • One morning, when working all the yearlings over two furlongs—a quarter of a mile—in sets of two, he paired Seabiscuit with Faust, the fastest yearling in the barn and a future major stakes winner.†   (source)
  • At New York's Aqueduct Racecourse late in 1934, Hard Tack's first two yearlings stepped off a railcar into Fitzsimmons's care.†   (source)
  • Bronty's "foal" was now a boisterous yearling who in public was treated by Pilgrim with a kind of lofty disdain.†   (source)
  • Millerick was a very good young trainer, but for his new yearlings and the hundred-grander-caliber horses he planned to have soon, Howard wanted the best.†   (source)
  • He had taken Howard's ill-bred yearlings, worked with them in solitude for a year, then slipped them into Barn 38 at Santa Anita and hung out his shingle.†   (source)
  • Frank said Tom had been delayed by some problem with one of the yearlings but he was in the shower when they left and wouldn't be long.†   (source)
  • "What about the yearlings?" she said.†   (source)
  • One morning, when working all the yearlings over two furlongs—a quarter of a mile—in sets of two, he paired Seabiscuit with Faust, the fastest yearling in the barn and a future major stakes winner.†   (source)
  • Tom told him how he was going to be working with the yearlings and some of the older colts he'd bred.†   (source)
  • They used to halter-break their colts as yearlings in the spring and the boy would sit on the top rail of the corral and watch.†   (source)
  • When she drove over the hill and down past the corrals, she saw Tom's yearlings running in the arena, but there was no sign of Tom and she felt disappointed, then amused that she should feel so.†   (source)
  • Is Yearling Barrius guilty of treason?†   (source)
  • Fourth-Yearling Falconius Barrius.†   (source)
  • The story of Blackcliffs origin was the first thing I learned as a Yearling: Five hundred years ago, a warrior brute named Taius united the fractured Martial clans and swept down from the north, crushing the Scholar Empire and taking over most of the continent.†   (source)
  • Students rush through the corridors, but they're mostly Yearlings, and none of them look twice at us.†   (source)
  • Helene shoves past the gate guards toward the Commandant's house, apologizing to a group of Yearlings when she knocks two of them over.†   (source)
  • She knows, for instance, that I smuggle sheets to the Yearlings so they don't get whipped for wetting their beds.†   (source)
  • The Yearlings look down as we pass; we are upperclassmen, and they are forbidden from even addressing us.†   (source)
  • It was autumn—the Augurs always bring a new crop of Yearlings in when the desert winds are at their worst.†   (source)
  • "Since everyone's back to witness the Trials, there won't be a new crop of Yearlings until the contest is over."†   (source)
  • Behind the Yearlings sits an empty space in honor of Blackcliff's second tier of students, called Fivers because so many die in their fifth year.†   (source)
  • Helene and I walk past the youngest students, four classes of maskless Yearlings, who will have the clearest view of the carnage.†   (source)
  • The Cadets and Skulls pretend to shake off the rumors, but the Yearlings aren't so skilled at hiding their fear.†   (source)
  • By now, even the youngest Yearlings have learned Blackcliff's most essential lessons: Obey, conform, and keep your mouth shut.†   (source)
  • When we were Yearlings, the Commandant ordered Helene to rappel down the cliffs again and again until she could drop with nothing but a clenched jaw to betray her terror.†   (source)
  • His fellow Fourth-Yearlings, the same boys he fought and sweated and suffered with for years, thump the flagstones with their boots and pump their fists in the air.†   (source)
  • About noon they found a yearling herd upwind; they split and placed themselves cross wind for the kill.†   (source)
  • Then I saw that what she was carrying was a baby, a critter not yearling size.†   (source)
  • When he was a yearling he got away and ran wild for three years.†   (source)
  • That night Kotick danced the Fire-dance with the yearling seals.†   (source)
  • A bunch of yearlings were licking at huge lumps of brown rock-salt.†   (source)
  • Though a long way from his full growth, White Fang, next to Lip-lip, was the largest yearling in the village.†   (source)
  • They were here, there, everywhere, with lariats flying, horses plunging back, jerking calves and yearlings to the grass.†   (source)
  • … Carson, I never in my life took a day's labor for rent or a yearling calf or a bunch of grass, let alone gold.†   (source)
  • Calves just born, just able to suck, and from that to yearlings, were left to starve, to die of thirst, to wander until they dropped or were torn to shreds by wolves.†   (source)
  • One more trip he undertook to Oldring's valley, and this time he roped a yearling steer and killed it and cut out a small quarter of beef.†   (source)
  • August had spoken so easily, quite as if he were explaining how to shear a yearling sheep, that Jack's feelings fluctuated between amazement and laughter.†   (source)
  • Near at hand were a cow and a calf and several yearlings, and farther out in the sage some straggling steers.†   (source)
  • Caught when she was a yearling, broken better than any mustang we ever had, she has helped us run down many a stallion, and now she runs off with that big white-maned brute!†   (source)
  • Branding the cows and yearlings and tame steers which watered at Silver Cup, and never wandered far away, was play according to Dave's version.†   (source)
  • —the yearling heifer, that them skulking devils the Tetons stole, was the biggest coward among us all, and after her came your drivelling Doctor.†   (source)
  • After admiring the young ones of that year, who were particularly fine—the early calves were the size of a peasant's cow, and Pava's daughter, at three months old, was as big as a yearling— Levin gave orders for a trough to be brought out and for them to be fed in the paddock.†   (source)
  • At last he felt cold, and shaking an extra quantity of bedding round the yearling ewes he entered the hut and heaped more fuel upon the stove.†   (source)
  • For my part I shall offer at your altar a virgin heifer, a yearling, never yoked, her horns all sheathed in gold.†   (source)
  • And as a mountain lion cuts out a yearling from a grazing herd— the plumpest one—clamping with his great jaws upon her neck to break it, and then feeds on blood and vitals, rending her; around him dogs and herdsmen raise a mighty din but keep away, unwilling to attack, as pale dread takes possession of them all: so not one Trojan had the heart to face Menelaos in his pride.†   (source)
  • …queen, going up to her lofty well-lit room,
    fell to weeping for Odysseus, her beloved husband,
    till watchful Athena sealed her eyes with welcome sleep.
    Returning just at dusk to Odysseus and his son,
    the loyal swineherd found they'd killed a yearling pig
    and standing over it now were busy cooking supper.
    But Athena had approached Laertes' son Odysseus,
    tapped him with her wand and made him old again.
    She dressed him in filthy rags too, for fear Eumaeus,
    recognizing his master…†   (source)
  • Give us high renown,
    myself, my children, my loyal wife and queen.
    And I will make you a sacrifice, a yearling heifer
    broad in the brow, unbroken, never yoked by men.
    I'll offer it up to you—I'll sheathe its horns in gold."
    So he prayed, and Pallas Athena heard his prayer.
    And Nestor the noble chariot-driver led them on,
    his sons and sons-in-law, back to his regal palace.
    Once they reached the storied halls of the aged king
    they sat on rows of low and high-backed chairs.
    As…†   (source)
  • …his pasture, ranging his sleek flocks.
    So we explored his den, gazing wide-eyed at it all,
    the large flat racks loaded with drying cheeses,
    the folds crowded with young lambs and kids,
    split into three groups—here the spring-born,
    here mid-yearlings, here the fresh sucklings
    off to the side—each sort was penned apart.
    And all his vessels, pails and hammered buckets
    he used for milking, were brimming full with whey.
    From the start my comrades pressed me, pleading hard,
    'Let's…†   (source)
  • To get provisions for my poor weak subjects, I ordered Friday to kill me a yearling goat; which when he had done I cut off the hinder quarters, and chopping it into small pieces, boiled and stewed it, putting barley and rice into the broth.†   (source)
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