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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The dew-lap and the ears may also be cut, notched, or slit.
Out on the Range 1896
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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
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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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