| If neighbors had a Thanksgiving turkey, the Witherses told everyone they did, too, even if their holiday dinner was ham hocks and beans. |
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| Larger pieces of bacon, or bacon hocks, boiled and served hot or cold with mustard, were much used as standby dishes in poorer households. |
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| We wolfed down fabulous hamburgers, ham hocks, duck and pints of ale, though Soames astonishingly stuck to Diet Coke and no dessert. |
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| It was the best pea soup I'd ever had, filled with hocks and so smoky, but in a good way. |
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| If using bacon bones or hocks, remove the fat, chop the meat and return to pot. |
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| When he can't take the pressures of his dying brother any more, he hocks his father's most expensive watch so he can buy a hit of heroin. |
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| Feeling guilty about owing the kindly journalist for her fare, she hocks a valuable Balzac first edition for 180,000 francs and pays her debt. |
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| The shield snapped up and cracked the horse sharply across the hocks and the animal brayed and reared, striking the horse beside it. |
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| It primarily occurs in the shoulder or elbow joints, but it can affect the hocks or stifles, too. |
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| Their manes and tails are trimmed evenly, never wrapped and always comfortably cut just above the hocks. |
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| Bone spavin is arthritis between the little joints in the hocks, which don't have much movement anyways. |
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| He bolted, trying to get away from the snake that was nipping at his hocks. |
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| If you're interested in ham hocks, cornbread, southern funeral repasts, and the history of soul food, she's the expert. |
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| My mare rolled over and over in the wet grass and was playful with the gelding, nipping at his hocks and tempting him to chase her. |
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| Time and again, I have horses presented for sore back problems but in fact it is their hocks that are aching. |
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| The hocks and elbows of your dog should receive special attention. |
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| The company made logging tools and parts, maple handles, loading blocks, shackles, chain hocks, load binders, neck yokes, whiffletrees and steel fittings for these. |
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| Also on offer will be German beers and a selection of delicacies including pork hocks, pretzels, kranskies, potato pancakes and continental cakes. |
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| These are worn on the hocks and protect the horse from injuries. |
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| Bone spavins, bogs, thoroughpins, and weakness are common to sickle hocks. |
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| He had a sad little tail, barely long enough to brush his hocks. |
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| He had exceptional conformation, very correct legs, hocks, and knees. |
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| Oribi also have scent glands below the ears, below the knees, below the hocks, in the groin and between the hooves. |
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| Broad and strong at the base, long and heavy. The last tailbone reaches at least to the hocks. |
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| Cheviots have no wool on their heads and ears or on their legs below the knees and hocks. |
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| Some are more sloping in the croup and more curved in the hocks than other riding horses. |
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| There is extensive subcutaneous oedema, particularly around the head and hocks. |
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| The tan line runs down the stifles and from the wrists and hocks to the toes and around the vent. |
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| Among these herds, 72 per cent of cows in herds bedded on mattresses had hairless spots on their hocks, and 17 per cent had swollen lesions. |
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| This method of farming is undeniably cruel and results in health problems such as sore hocks, stunted crawling gait and even cannibalism. |
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| Short, not reaching the hocks, set low, fairly strong, carried high, not curled over the back. |
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| At 35 per cent, cows on waterbeds had less than half the lesions of those on mattresses, and three per cent had swollen hocks. |
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| Hock damage was rare in sand-bedded herds-only 25 per cent had hairless spots and less than three per cent had swollen hocks. |
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| The cover wrapped around its entire body, only hocks showing. |
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| Long, reaching at least to the hocks. Set in line with the croup and carried low, scimitar fashion, at rest. |
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| Affected kittens develop an odd gait with a sway of the hindquarters and stand with the hocks nearly touching. |
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| The line could be mounted to a maximum of 3 single hocks. |
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| Hairs behind the dog's hocks are finally untangled with a big-tooth comb. |
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| Several strong quakes followed and afters hocks continued to jolt the area. |
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| Spotting does not often reach below the hocks and almost never to the hooves. |
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| In order to give complete freedom to the hindquarters and to the hocks, the rider does not sit back in the saddle until at least two strides after landing. |
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| Set on high, and reaching to hocks, or a little below them, wide at its root and tapering to end, hanging straight in repose, but forming a curve with end pointing upwards, but not over back, when dog is excited. |
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| Medium-sized, well proportioned, robustly built and very muscular, Kai Kens share the characteristics of other dogs living in the mountainous regions of Japan: strong legs and especially well developed hocks. |
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| How many of us nowadays would buy scrag end of lamb or brisket or pig's hocks? |
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| Set high, pointed, tapering towards the base and touching the hocks. It falls between the buttocks at rest, more or less arched or curved at the tip. |
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| A clear improvement in elasticity around the fetlocks and the hocks, greater mobility and suppleness of the sacroiliac joint have been studied and demonstrated. |
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| The students often spend sleepless nights here, taking part in global hacking competitions while eating pork hocks and fried chicken delivered directly to their basement. |
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| It can be accentuated by horses with sticking-out hocks the joints in the middle of the back legs, because they have to overstride, otherwise they wouldn't go anywhere. |
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