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many, if not most, bulls were taken purely for the trophy mount—but
Nate Blakeslee • American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
Note: * If Mr. Harbison had owned a slave named Bull, Tom would have spoken of him as “Harbison’s Bull,” but a son or a dog of that name was “Bull Harbison.
Mark Twain • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A bull was a “man-cow.” Snow was “white rain.” At a country estate where he stayed, he referred to the butler as “king of the bottles.” He called ice “stone water.” One morning he was stung by a wasp. When asked what had bitten him and caused his hand to swell, he replied that it was a “soldier bird.” Later, a member of the local gentry pinched him
... See moreHampton Sides • The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Bulls and lone cows often hang back, deferring risk to the gangly youngsters and their travel-weary mothers.
Caroline Van Hemert • The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
