calfhood

From calfhood they were accustomed to live in droves, and some grew too conventional to march alone: while none would leave their habitual party without loud grief and unwillingness, such as mine was showing.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Their ruddy faces and somewhat cumbrous forms belong to the animal period of life that links together boyhood, colthood and calfhood.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

I strained my ears, and far off to the right I heard the sound of cattle bellowing, the snorting low of a stirk upon the hillside when he wonders at the lost pastures of his calfhood in the merry summer before.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

Whether or not the animal had, during her calfhood days, been injured by a woman is not known; possibly her behavior was due merely to innate depravity.

Cy Whittaker's Place Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

He had his mother's large, half-wild, discriminating eyes; and his legs, soon throwing off the straddling awkwardness of calfhood, developed his mother's almost deer-like activity.

The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

The bovine, pampered and treated with the greatest deference and consideration from her earliest calfhood, resents this treatment by making a short but determined spurt after me as I sweep past.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

Morva continued her song, for Daisy wanted nothing new, but was contented with the old stave which she had known from calfhood.

Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead Allen Raine 1885

When we plough with another man's heifer, however unconscious we are of our appropriation, however sincerely we seem to remember that we alone raised her from her earliest calfhood, it is yet in vain, after all, that we put our brand on her, or call her 'American.' ...

A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel Francis Ellingwood Abbot 1869

This is often a work of no little danger; for when a young bull, who has been roaming at liberty since his calfhood, finds himself thus treated, he is apt to turn on his tormentors, and to attempt to retaliate.

The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia William Henry Giles Kingston 1847