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They delight in hunting; have plenty of deer and other game, with a great number of sheep, goats, and black-cattle running wild, which they scruple not to kill as vension, without being much at pains to ascertain the property.
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STURDY, _s. _ a vertigo; a disease to which black-cattle and sheep are liable when young.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. Alexander Leighton 1837
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The other part of the grazier's business is, what we call black-cattle, producing hides, tallow, and beef for exportation: all which are good and useful commodities, if rightly managed.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Jonathan Swift 1706
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They have large black-cattle, excellent mutton, and Imail haidy horles.
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Throughout the North of Scotland the tenants of the small grazing farms into which the Highland counties had been divided, have been ousted for the purpose of creating sheep-walks, and to such an extent has this been carried, that where once, and at no distant period, were numerous black-cattle farms, not an inhabitant is now to be seen for many miles. [
The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished 1836
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