It stands in the midst of an unweeded field, whose dilapidated enclosure scarcely protects it from the lowing and hungry kine. |
Like Virgil's, Horace's garden had its vines, olives, bees and kine. |
The sweet breath of kine is wafted on the night, and the drone of many insects. |
The first relates to the BSE mass-barbecue of 1996 – sitting in a bar in Logan airport in Boston, watching a wall-mounted TV on which JCBs shovelled and flumped rigid kine into enormous trenches. |
Acorns are the pride of the oak, apples of the apple tree, the calf of the heifer, and the neatherd glories in his kine. |
The echo of the ax could be heard from the wood, and the muffled lowing of the kine from the shippon in the yard behind. |