Of those mooncalf, ill-fitting, ineffably strange examples he lists, his first and most outstanding is The Island of Doctor Moreau. ❋ Unknown (2011)
That's what's happened in less far-reaching schemes in the past and that was the objective of these plans,Peter Taylor-GoobyProfessor of social policy, University of Kent• Tim Dowling's article was a great introduction to gallery rage G2, 10 May, but I must add to the list of outrages: standing four inches from the painting; pontificating at 100 decibels; wandering around like a mooncalf and randomly blocking the vision of all and sundry. ❋ Unknown (2011)
My son, the brutal mooncalf, is still alive, though barely, starving and buried inside some mountain. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)
Selenite or mooncalf, though we heard the bellowing and gruntulous noises of these latter continually drawing nearer to us. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
(For the mooncalf invariably shuts its eyes in the presence of the sun.) ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Outside began a terrific bellowing, as if a mooncalf were in trouble. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
I infer rather than learn from his narrative that he was captured by the mooncalf herds under the direction of these other Selenites who ❋ Herbert George (2006)
I had realised that we might work from mooncalf to mooncalf up the cave until we were near enough to charge home. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
His thoughts are of mooncalf pastures, and his dialect an accomplished mooncalf technique. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
It would seem the exterior Selenites I saw were, indeed, mostly engaged in kindred occupations — mooncalf herds, butchers, fleshers, and the like. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
The quality of his motion during the instant of his passing suggested haste and a certain anger, and soon after we had lost sight of him we heard the bellow of a mooncalf change abruptly into a short, sharp squeal followed by the scuffle of its acceleration. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
They may think we are new animals, a new sort of mooncalf perhaps! ❋ Herbert George (2006)
From a partially divided carcass of a mooncalf that we presently saw, I am inclined to believe it must have been mooncalf flesh. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Their use of goads — in all probability mooncalf goads — the lack of imagination they show in expecting us to be able to do just what they can do, their indisputable brutality, all seem to point to something of that sort. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Their sturdy little forms — ever so much shorter and thicker than the mooncalf herds — were scattered up the slope in a way that was eloquent of indecision. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
The strange and (except for the want of mandibles and palps) most insect-like head of the mooncalf-minders underwent, indeed, the most incredible transformations: here it was broad and low, here high and narrow; here its leathery brow was drawn out into horns and strange features; here it was whiskered and divided, and there with a grotesquely human profile. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
A number of very thick-looking crowbars lay about the floor, and had apparently assisted to turn the dead mooncalf over on its side. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Why should I follow you about like a mooncalf and you feel nothing? ❋ Jen Holling (2005)
I hope, for her sake, that the banker had to buy her off to protect his smitten mooncalf son. ❋ Tosches, Nick (2005)
[Nerd]: You're such a mooncalf!
[Jock]: [Huh]? ❋ Non-Cretin (2005)
The woman was only 21, but her [calves] and [ankles] have formed into a giant mooncalf. It'll only [get worse] as she gets older. ❋ Doc Md Danny (2020)
