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The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him.

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bull
 n.  male of any species of cattle; large, strong, and aggressive person; optimist regarding business conditions
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Then the fiddles, bull fiddles, accordions, banjos and knuckle-bones broke into a slow rendition of "Lorena"--too slow for dancing, the dancing would come later when the booths were emptied of their wares.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  And then the old gentleman let out a roar like a bull.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
4  Alex said he saw him come out on the street, chargin like a bull.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  Mrs. Peniston thought the country lonely and trees damp, and cherished a vague fear of meeting a bull.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
6  Here, tossed about by the sea, the beginner feels about as cosy as he would standing on a bull's horns.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
7  In the repose of the pasture, the curled brow of the bull has a touch of the grand in it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
8  He was always trying to ride the colts before they were broken, teasing the turkey gobbler, seeing just how much red the bull would stand for, or how sharp the new axe was.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
9  I keep a bull pup," I said, "and I object to rows because my nerves are shaken, and I get up at all sorts of ungodly hours, and I am extremely lazy.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
10  There was a policeman not far off, advancing with his bull's eye open; and at the sight, I thought my visitor started and made greater haste.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
11  Front-de-Boeuf is dying too, so we shall receive no more aid from his bull's head and brutal strength.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  She's grown heavy, and more common than ever, and as strong as a bull.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
13  Listen to me, who with six words, can strangle Sikes as surely as if I had his bull's throat between my fingers now.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  Trevor was the only man I knew, and that only through the accident of his bull terrier freezing on to my ankle one morning as I went down to chapel.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
15  He bellowed like a bull and rushed for the door with all that were left alive at his heels.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  The tan-coloured dog looks suspiciously like an American pit bull terrier.
2  Now is the time for the Chancellor to take the bull by the horns and announce a two per cent cut in interest rates.
3  He that will have his farm full, must keep an old cock and a young bull.
4  He hit at the bull's-eye in one shot.
5  The archer's shot was a perfect bull's-eye.
6  I also met with Pollack again to kind of shoot the bull.
7  They did not see the sign by the gate saying 'Beware of the bull'.
8  Even the bull seemed to feel sorry for the drunk.
9  This sort of information is like a red rag to a bull for the tobacco companies.
10  I think it's a load of bull.
11  We are in a medium-term bull market, which is a corrective move within a long term bear market.
12  Up-stream boats didn't generly come close to us; they go out and follow the bars and hunt for easy water under the reefs; but nights like this they bull right up the channel against the whole river.
13  When you traverse this field alone, be careful of the bull.
14  It is a form of bullfighting where the bull is stabbed repeatedly with a wooden lance from the back of a horse.
15  The target for the matador is a small soft spot at the base of the bull's hump, where the sword can penetrate directly to the heart of the bull.