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  • Occasionally one meets with what at Aden is called the Berberah sheep, a totally different beast, — white, with a black broad face, a dew-lap, and a short fat tail, that looks as if twisted up into a knot: it was doubtless introduced by the Persians.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • That, having thus put his neck into the noose, he should proceed to adjust the rope about his dew-lap, argued an unexpected generosity.

    Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922

  • I remember her as clear as yesterday -- a big old cow with a dew-lap an 'a crumpled horn; we called her Ladybird because she was spots all over.

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • As I turned and looked at this glowing vision I laughed to think of her as a "little winjin 'thing," and was grateful to the good offices of old Ladybird with the dew-lap and a crumpled horn.

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • The girl presently fell asleep, so I covered her, kimono and all, and extinguishing the light, lay down beside what had once been a tiny baby, whose feeble life opening with the day had been nurtured on the milk of old Ladybird, the spotted cow with a dew-lap and a crumpled horn.

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • Then he scooted for the corral, and I went back and studied my chin in the dresser-mirror, to make sure it wasn't getting terraced into a dew-lap like Uncle

    The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

  • There glimmered blue-green patches of bracken, speckled with the red and white hides of calves which fed and scampered dew-lap deep; and the fern was all sheened with light where the sunshine brightened its polished leaves.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • The dew-lap and the ears may also be cut, notched, or slit.

    Out on the Range 1896

  • Points snug, well-flesh'd, to dew-lap tapering fine;

    The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875

  • In addition to the naked neck, the adjutant is furnished with an immense dew-lap, or pouch which hangs down upon its breast -- often more than a foot in length, and changing from pale flesh colour to bright red, along with the skin of the throat.

    The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Mayne Reid 1850

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