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Example sentences for "carabaos"

Lexicographically close words:
caput; capybara; capybaras; car; carabao; carabine; carabineer; carabineers; carabines; carabinieri
  1. Does not Brother Mateo, a man who does not lie, say that Pope Sextus was a herder of carabaos in Batangas?

  2. Vainly he swore to it; there were his carabaos with him and could verify his statement.

  3. These carabaos were evidently the remnant, or the offspring, of a small herd that escaped to the woods in the time of the Philippine insurrection.

  4. According to other reports this deity had a herd of carabaos whose footprints had been seen by several of my friends and acquaintances.

  5. The soldiers used the carabaos of the island as meat and obtained salt from sea water.

  6. The troops hand-carried their weapons and communications equipment, while civilians with about eight carabaos [378] helped carry the supplies.

  7. One afternoon, while he was walking in a field, he saw two carabaos fighting.

  8. She left her sons two carabaos for an inheritance.

  9. Paragos, a kind of rude, low sledge drawn by carabaos and used by farmers.

  10. And even to-day, the carabaos still bear the mark which an unjust action on the part of their ancestor against one whom he knew was far inferior to him in strength produced on himself.

  11. At last we reloaded the baggage, the carabaos were reharnessed in the original positions, and the driver, leaning his whole weight upon the nose-rope of the leading beast, pulled with might and main.

  12. Where the Dutch Government extended these were not permitted; but sometimes carabaos or pigs were killed in a cruel manner, with the blood of which the high priest smeared the forehead, breast, and arms of the head of the family.

  13. Carabaos which tread the rice land well are worth as much as ten dollars.

  14. The next morning there were no horses to be found; and it was not till the afternoon that I procured a cart and a couple of carabaos to take me to Santa Cruz, whence in the evening the market-vessel started for Manila.

  15. The pace of the animals is not unpleasant, but the stretching across the broad backs of the gigantic carabaos of the Philippines is very fatiguing.

  16. The carabaos laboured, the carros creaked and groaned and wailed.

  17. They stole carabaos from the fields and went on.

  18. Then White impressed two carabaos from the presidente and started off in a drizzling rain.

  19. They steal cows, horses, and carabaos from their own countrymen; and those who are occupied in this trade are ready for all sorts of evil.

  20. Nagkadúmug ang duha ka kábaw, The two carabaos were engaged in combat trying to knock each other over.

  21. Nabyaan sa barku ang nagkumbuy sa kábaw nga itúmud sa Manílà, The man who was supposed to go along with the carabaos being shipped to Manila missed the boat.

  22. Kábaw nga nagkalimbagas ug ginukdánay, The mad rushing of carabaos running after one another.

  23. Nagkasúngag ang duha ka kábaw, The two carabaos are goring each other.

  24. Until there is a livelier and more general interest in saving carabaos than in painting them, the country will not attain to a high degree of material prosperity through the efforts of its own people.

  25. Wild carabaos are found not only at various points in Luzón, but abundantly in Mindoro and the Calamianes Islands.

  26. There is an interesting and unsettled question as to whether the wild carabaos of the Philippines are indigenous to the islands or are merely the descendants of imported animals which have made their escape from captivity.

  27. It was common for a Filipino to go into the Bukidnon country with nothing but the clothes on his back, and soon to return with three or four carabaos heavily laden with hemp, coffee, cacao, or gutta percha.

  28. My own opinion is that both beliefs are true or, in other words, that we have both a native wild race and other carabaos just as wild and just as fierce which are the descendants of tame individuals.

  29. Young calves are as wild as their parents, and I am credibly informed will often endeavour to attack female carabaos if an attempt is made to get them to regard these animals in the light of foster mothers.

  30. A number of men have been killed in the Philippines by wild carabaos which they had severely wounded.

  31. This was especially manifest in the great wrestling-match that took place on the afternoon of the 6th, when ranchería after ranchería sent up its best man to compete for the heads of the carabaos that had furnished meat for the multitude.

  32. Here, too, were the same pill-box hats as those seen at Bontok, some elaborately beaded and costing from one to five carabaos apiece; in one case the lid of a tomato tin had been pressed into service as a hat.

  33. Thus in the case above, B, if a powerful individual, probably collects two or even three carabaos or their equivalent value from C, and besides he receives thirty pesos patang.

  34. Bumidang took one of the carabaos away from him there, and with his kin, killed it and ate it.

  35. Some time subsequently he sent a man to buy carabaos in Nueva Vizcaya.

  36. He consequently gave a great uyauwe feast at which the unheard of number of six carabaos was slaughtered, to say nothing of innumerable pigs.

  37. Under the long porch of the customs-house, a dummy engine noisily plies up and down among the long-horned carabaos and piles of merchandise.

  38. Bridges that carabaos had fallen through were crossed successfully, and we arrived at Oroquieta during the band concert.

  39. Neat cattle take the place of carabaos here to a great extent.

  40. With the exception of the fighting-cock, chickens, dogs, pigs, and carabaos are left to forage for themselves.

  41. Meanwhile, the family kill and cook all the pigs and carabaos and ponies, if the man owned any, and then gather around and have what they call a canao, or feast.

  42. Afterward the bones and skulls of the carabaos are hung about the house to show their neighbours what a rich man he was.

  43. Grain shipped from America decayed in the storehouses before it could be distributed, and, as if that were not enough, carabaos died by the thousand from rinderpest.

  44. The fields were devastated by war, and before labor could restore what the soldiers had destroyed, rinderpest attacked the carabaos and in some places carried away as many as 90 per cent of the animals.

  45. We visited a sugar plantation which had lost more than half of its carabaos during the two weeks preceding.

  46. More than fifty buffaloes or carabaos (which are their oxen), by which the plowing is done in this country, were taken there at the cost of the order.

  47. Their fear of molestation from the Moros together with their nomadic tendencies, due to the lack of carabaos and farm implements, make their complete reduction difficult at present.

  48. They pulled up, the Sergeant pointing significantly at the carabaos tied up under the high perched huts.

  49. Fifteen minutes along the plain trail torn through the brush by the driven carabaos brought them out on the beach.

  50. She had recognized neither shadowed forms nor whispering voices of any of the four who had entered the house while the others herded the stolen carabaos toward the waterfront.

  51. All rich people own one or more gold earrings valued at from one to two carabaos each.

  52. During the second day men had succeeded in catching in the mountains one of the half-wild carabaos -- property of the deceased -- and this was killed.

  53. This is an invitation addressed to the wild carabaos of the Sakapa and Okiki Mountains to come in closer to Bontoc.

  54. Along the coastwise roads cattle and carabaos haul two-wheel carts, and in the unirrigated lowland rice tracts these same animals drag sleds surmounted by large basket-work receptacles for the palay.

  55. Sometimes, however, some of the Igorot groups descend to the settlements of the Christians in the lowlands and in the night bring back a few carabaos and hogs.

  56. Personal property of group All household implements and utensils and all money, food stuffs, chickens, dogs, hogs, and carabaos accumulated by a married couple are the joint property of the two.

  57. Carabaos are at present valued in Bontoc at about 50 pesos, and hogs average about 8 pesos.

  58. It is mainly a vast pasture, supporting countless deer; along the foothills and the forest-grown creek and river bottoms there are many wild hogs; and in some areas herds of wild carabaos and horses are found.

  59. The old men say that probably 500 wild carabaos have been killed by the men of the pueblo.

  60. There are in the neighborhood of 400 domestic carabaos owned in Bontoc and Samoki.

  61. Carabaos are valued at from 40 to 70 pesos.

  62. The effect on the humans was just what he desired, but he did not allow for the nervousness of the carabaos on hearing a revolver shot in a locality where it is distinctly not native.

  63. Carabaos sniffed at us as we passed, and people crowded their windows to look.

  64. Two of the laborers were prisoners, one was to be deported, and a number of carabaos had died.


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