"Tur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... distinctive as between most sheep and most goats, but the Barbary wild sheep (Ovis tragelaphus) has no suborbital gland or pit, a goat-like peculiarity which it shares with the Himalayan bharal (Ovis nahura), in which the horns resemble closely those of a goat from the eastern Caucasus called tur (Capra cylindricornis), which for its part has the horns somewhat sheep-like and a very small beard. This same bharal has the goat-like habit of raising itself upon its hind ...
— American Big Game in Its Haunts • Various
... He was canon and professor of theology at Noyon. His Introductio contains considerable work on star polygons, a favorite study in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. His work Que hoc volumine contin[e]tur. Liber de intellectu. Liber de sensu, etc., appeared at Paris ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan
... niver raycovered fr'm th' tur'ble blow. Their spirits was crushed. Their hopes had fled. Th' kindergartens had opened an' manny iv their bravest warryors had been carried off be their mothers. Anny moment they might be surrounded an' surrindhered ...
— Observations by Mr. Dooley • Finley Peter Dunne |
