Sentences with phrase «bull by the nose»

Their dogs were used to entertain the public but the rules were altered: now a dog could grab the bull by its nose and hold it long enough for a rope to be put around bull's neck.

Others were used as butcher's dogs, sent in to grab a bull by the nose and hold on while the butcher clubbed the bull over the head to kill it.

At the time, Governor Richard Nicolls rounded up the best bulldogs available and started breeding and training them to catch those wild bulls by the nose, and hold them until they could be neutralized by the handler.

The dog that grabbed the bull by the nose and pinned it to the ground was the winner.

Not exact matches

When a young man thumbs his nose at death by bull riding or BASE jumping, is an immature prefrontal cortex to blame?

Douglas Blain gets his hands on a rare alloy - bodied example in Great Leap Forward with photographs by Stefan Marjoram / In this months Auto - biography Jonathan Rishton meets Delwyn Mallett, the former art director who spent his career in the advertising industry whilst amassing an enviable collection of exotic machinery / In A beginner's guide to Rétromobile Stefan Marjoram doesn't know which way to look on his first visit to the unmissable Parisian old - car show / Scott Barrett remembers how a Riley Nine was the first light car to complete the Athens to Monte Carlo route of the famous rally, whilst Gordon McAllan shares his diary of the Classique re-run, in Monte Carlo or Bust / Ivan Margolius explains his theory of how Tatra car seating inspired an influential Modernist chair design in Cars, Furniture, Architecture / In his article Bellanger: the international car, Michael Worthington - Williams tells the story of the bull - nosed cars built in Neuilly - sur - Seine from 1912 - 1925 / In this months Sicilian snapshots, Simon Moore continues his trawl through a family album, this time sharing some pictures of the exotic road cars they owned / In the latest of his Back on the Road series, Michael Ware reports on a rare Austin 10hp van.

Being bred for both temperament and physical attributes, these bulldogs were expected to ground a bull by grasping its nose and pinning it to the ground.

Everything that you know about Pit bulls (assuming that it is not heavily influenced by the unfair reputation they have) applies to the Blue Nose Pit Bull.

In England during the 1500s and after, before a beef cattle (a bull) was slaughtered it often was placed in a ring with one or more dogs to drag it to the ground by the method of grabbing the bull's nose or ears with a death grip.

I have many years in the veterinary field and my career choice was inspired by the first dog I adopted, a Red Nose Pit Bull named Wilfred.

The «stop» (the angle formed by the rostrum and forehead) is more acute in today's St. Bernard and the «Roman nose» of the Bull Terrier angulates more ventrally than it did decades ago [29,30].

«A Rotta Love Plus (ARLP) is a comprehensive and proactive all - volunteer advocacy organization that uses a «nose - to - tail» approach to address the issues faced by Rottweilers and pit bulls.»

The amenities include it's own private pool surfaced with glass mosaic tiles, vaulted 22 foot ceilings, large storage area, high end appliances, bull nose edge granite and marble counter tops, laundry room with washer and dryer, dishwasher, built in hand crafted closets made of local hard woods, air conditioning, upper and lower outside terraces accented by custom crafted wrought iron railings.

Driver, pit wall and pit crew likenesses have improved through adding expression lines and wrinkles to their faces that were previously absent which are accompanied by more realistic facial hair that provide realistic representations of drivers and team principals such as Mercedes» Toto Wolff and Red Bull's Christian Horner on the pit wall, while subtle details such as Lewis Hamilton's ear rings, nose stud and tattoos have been added to create a far more accurate character model in comparison to previous F1 games.