 | Moses Aaron Richardson - Ballads, English - 1843 - 436 pages
...outside from the tip, downwards, red ; horns white, with black tips, very fine, and bent upwards ; some of the bulls have a thin upright mane, about...or two inches long : the weight of the oxen is from thirty-five to forty-five stone ; and the cows from twenty-five to thirty-five stone, the four quarters... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 832 pages
...outside, from the tips downwards, red ; horns white with black tips, very fine, and bent upwards ; some of the bulls have a thin, upright mane, about an inch and a hah" or two inches long. At the first appearance of any person they set off in full gallop, and, at... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 582 pages
...the outside, from the tips downwards, red ; horns white with black tips, very fine and bent upwards ; some of the bulls have a thin upright mane, about an inch and a half or two inches long. At the first appearance of any person they set off in full gallop, and at the distance of two or three... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1870 - 718 pages
...muzzle ; the inside of the ears, and the tip of the outer ear, are a brightish red ; their horns are white with black tips, very fine and bent upward. Some of the bulls have a thin upright mane, an inch and a half or two inches long ; they are fleet and active, and their mode of treating a stranger... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1871 - 838 pages
...outside, from the tips downwards, red ; horns white with black tips, very fine, and bent upwards ; some of the bulls have a thin, upright mane, about an inch and a half or two inches long. At the first appearance of any person they set off in full gallop, and, at the distanM of two or three... | |
 | Duncan George Forbes Macdonald - Cattle - 1872 - 862 pages
...outside, from the tip downwards, red ; horns, white, with black tips, very fine and bent upwards ; some of the bulls have a thin, upright mane, about...or two inches long; the weight of the oxen is from thirty-five to forty-five stone, and the cows from twenty-five to thirty-five stone, the four quarters,... | |
 | Robert Scott Fittis - Genealogy - 1881 - 580 pages
...the outside from the tip downwards, red; horns white, with black tips, very fine, and bent upwards; some of the bulls have a thin upright mane, about an inch and a-half or two inches long; the weight of the oxen is from 35 to 45 stone, and the cows from 25 to 35... | |
 | 1905 - 936 pages
...river-valleys of Northumberland and Berwickshire to the German Ocean and the Islands off the coast. with black tips, very fine and bent upward, some of the bulls having a thin, upright mane. The herd is generally kept up to a strength of eleven bulls, seventeen... | |
 | Charles George Harper - Ghost stories - 1907 - 428 pages
...the outside, from tips downwards, red ; horns white, with black tips, very fine, and bent upwards ; some of the bulls have a thin upright mane, about an inch and a half, or two inches, long." The occasional black calf is, of course, well known to students of natural history as a throw back to some... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1823 - 432 pages
...muzzle, black ; the whole of the inside of the ear, and about oae third of the outside, from the tips, downward, red ; horns white, with black tips, very fine, and bent upward ; some of the balls have a thin, upright mane, about an inch and an half, or two inches long. The weight of the oxen... | |
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Their colour is invariably of a creamy white, muzzle black ; the whole of the inside of the ear, and about one-third of the outside, from the tips downwards, red ; horns white with black tips, very fine and bent upwards; some of the bulls have a thin... 
