However, towards the end of the pregnancy, the animals are confined and stall-fed. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 31] Reference
This is probably better than stall-fed beef and slaughter-house pork to make a man of. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
It's been a hard winter, the stock stall-fed for so long, at least sixteen weeks, on some farms twenty. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Icelandic Short Stories] Reference
The next best kind of cow manure is that of stall-fed cattle, to which dry food only, as hay and grain, is fed. From Wordnik.com. [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference
"I wish it were five miles," Hesketh said, all his stall-fed muscles responding to the new call of his heart and lungs. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
Dirt adhering to a hide injures it, particularly in stall-fed animals; and any thing that punctures a hide, such as warbles arising from certain insects, is also injurious. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
"Them stall-fed fakers I just threw out," the old man went on. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
Get out of the mud there, you stall-fed, lounging lump of wickedness!. From Wordnik.com. [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference
Let him eat the lambs of the flock and feed upon the fat of stall-fed beasts. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,] Reference
This is probably better than stall-fed beef and slaughterhouse pork to make a man of. From Wordnik.com. [Walking] Reference
Except when "stall-fed" they are dry and tough, and require great care in preparation. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Parloa's New Cook Book] Reference
We must forever hold our companions responsible, or they are not companions but stall-fed. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Are sheep ever soiled or stall-fed? on what food, in what sheds or yards, and with what success?. From Wordnik.com. [Queries relating to live stock] Reference
Rome can inflict celibacy even on priests that look like stall-fed oxen, but she cannot unsex men. From Wordnik.com. [Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation] Reference
In the quantity of stall-fed stock which is kept, and by which a supply of manure is regularly secured; 2. From Wordnik.com. [The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished] Reference
A stall-fed ox commanded twenty-four shillings while his fellow brought up on grass was sold for sixteen shillings. From Wordnik.com. [Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920] Reference
Truth rebukes error; and whether stall-fed or famishing, theology needs Truth to stimulate and sustain a good sermon. From Wordnik.com. [No and Yes] Reference
When the people became materially prosperous and surrendered to ease and indulgence, they became fat, stall-fed weaklings. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Hard Knocks] Reference
Oh, yes, you would; she was quite inclined to like you before you began to turn, physically, into a stall-fed prize winner. From Wordnik.com. [The Firing Line] Reference
Hence the eagerness with which stall-fed cattle, who have not the opportunity of plucking up the roots of grass, evince for mould. From Wordnik.com. [Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos.] Reference
Generally no hay need be cut, as the grass cures standing, and keeps the cattle in as good condition all winter as if they were stall-fed. From Wordnik.com. [Roosevelt in the Bad Lands] Reference
You look 'bout as fat as a stall-fed knittin 'needle. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Blazed Trail] Reference
There's some American music for you, you half-witted, stall-fed socialist! ". From Wordnik.com. [A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike] Reference
We don't need him, we don't need the governor's petted, stall-fed militia, when we've got one man that's a regiment in himself! ". From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Why he was as fat as stall-fed beef, and as strong as a lion. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Planter's Northern Bride] Reference
Both of 'em stall-fed. From Wordnik.com. [Somewhere in Red Gap] Reference
Enter not so stall-fed quite. From Wordnik.com. [Faust] Reference
The milch cows are all stall-fed. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
My horse is as fat as a stall-fed ox. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
That's the trouble with stall-fed stock. From Wordnik.com. [The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range] Reference
It is quite clearI am to be stall-fed. From Wordnik.com. [March 22d. Part I.Letters from My Nephew] Reference
Be thine the stall-fed lamb; or if they choose. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference
All looked as sleek and fat as stall-fed cattle. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer] Reference
"He's as thin as a stall-fed hoe handle.". From Wordnik.com. [Local News | The Bryan College Station Eagle] Reference
And this in stall-fed. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
A long row of stall-fed cattle. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph the Heir] Reference
A stall-fed ox still retains to a wild bull. From Wordnik.com. [Peveril of the Peak] Reference
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