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  • You, your minions, your hate-filled rants, your bull-head thinking and the far right have led us to where we are.

    Limbaugh comes out for Obama 2008

  • A rose-colored hat, with towering pea-green ostrich-plumes, looks absurd on his bull-head; and though it is time of peace, the wretch is armed with

    Burlesques 2006

  • A rose-colored hat, with towering pea-green ostrich-plumes, looks absurd on his bull-head; and though it is time of peace, the wretch is armed with

    A Legend of the Rhine 2006

  • Meanwhile I stood waiting to make my bow; afraid to begin upon him, and wondering at his great bull-head.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • In a chair beside it, hands laid on knees, sat a man with a golden bull-head, and crystal eyes.

    The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

  • After patient angling in the matrimonial pool, one lands a stingaree and the other a bull-head.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

  • Why, him and I have bummed around together, and worked on farms, summers, and fished for bull-heads ---- Ever catch a bull-head?

    Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Agassiz, however, that they were weapons of defence only, which, like the spines of the river bull-head, were erected in moments of danger or alarm, and at other times lay close by the creature's side; and that the sole instrument of motion was in the tail.

    Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Theodore Graebner 1913

  • The river bull-head, when attacked by an enemy, or immediately as it feels the hook in its jaws, erects its two spines at nearly right angles with the plates of the head, as if to render itself as difficult of being swallowed as possible.

    Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Theodore Graebner 1913

  • He shook his great bull-head, the smile still in his eyes.

    The Tidal Wave and Other Stories 1910

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