Kine

When she rocks in its cradle the babe the young parents intrust to her heed; when she calls the kine to the milking, the chicks to their corn; when she but flits through my room to renew the flowers on the stand, or range in neat order the books that I read, no spell on her fancy could lead her a step from the range of her provident cares! ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

The same are also called the congregation of bulls (from their rage against the Church) who assemble together all their kine, that is, the people their subjects, to exclude if they can, from Christ and his inheritance, his constant confessors, who are like silver tried by fire. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Those men who make gift of Kapila king with their calves and with vessel of white brass for milking them, -- kine, that is, which are not vicious and which while given away, are wrapped round with cloths, -- succeed in conquering both this and the other world. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

The sacred and high pre-eminence and glory of kine, that is capable of cleansing one from every sin, has, O chief of men, been thus explained to thee. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

The true scientist may perhaps prefer that his kine should be the fat kine -- for he is but human -- but he does not desire them to be the only kine and to eat up all the rest. ❋ Unknown (1902)

The air grew full of silence, the birds twittered sleepily, and from afar came, faint and clear, the musical song of the milkmaid calling the kine home to the milking. ❋ Howard Pyle (1882)

It is the animals that lack the upper teeth that ruminate, such as kine, sheep, and goats. ❋ Unknown (2002)

This ordinance lays down that the Dakshina should be a hundred thousand animals such as kine or horses. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

The considerations of deserving recipients, of time, of the kind of kine, and of the ritual to be observed, should be attended to. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

There are considerations of propriety or otherwise about the person unto whom kine should be given, the time for making those gifts, the kind of kine that should form the object of gifts, and the rites that should be observed in making the gifts. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

Mr. Morton threw open the door with a grunt, and the stranger pausing at the threshold, the full flood of sound (key C) upon which "the Swiss Boy" was swimming along, "kine" and all, for life and death, came splash upon him. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Their kine are their main prop, but there's the mare, there's not much good that she can do them. " ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

Boy "was swimming along," kine "and all, for life and death, came splash upon him. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

It takes all kinds, and da dumb sheep-kine is definitely flailing around looking for their trough of free oats, headpats, comfortable daily livings for doing jack-diddley and making fun of other people as long as they're straight, white or don't want to share their sexual orientation or personal problems with the entire world . . . ❋ Unknown (2010)