"Branding iron" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... So the driver assassinated the disagreeable husband of No-Wayno. Then he went to the ranch to claim his bride, but she was not there. She had changed her mind, and married a cattle man, who had just moved on to the range with a government mule and a branding iron, intending to slowly work himself ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye
... Diamond-and-a-Half riders had said, several animals suffering from those pests of the Arizona ranges, the screwworms. As Phil explained to Patches while they watered their horses, the screwworm is the larva of a blowfly bred in sores on living animals. The unhealed wounds of the branding iron made the calves by far the most numerous among the sufferers, and were the afflicted animals not treated the loss during the season ...
— When A Man's A Man • Harold Bell Wright
... them, great lady, if it pains your gracious heart?" said he." With a knife and a branding iron they can ...
— The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Impressions and Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle |
