Sentences with word «cowpat»

Julian Barnes, describing one failed effort as «a kind of cowpat,» wrote, «The paranoid explanation was that some key element of the recipe had been deliberately omitted, thus driving customers back to the restaurant for the authentic item.»)

To give their young a start in life, female dung beetles — which have much larger horns than males — make balls of dung, called brood balls, from cowpats and bury them underground.

For instance, the concentration is lowest in the rumen of cows (2.9 nanograms per kilogram), greater in cowpats (9 nanograms per kilogram) and greater still in manure (14 nanograms per kilogram).

But the problem of unreliable information and exaggeration seems to be worse with stories about cane toads than almost any other topic we've encountered — toads attract misleading stories like cowpats attract flies!

The feces of canine pancreatic insufficiency patients are often of large volume and cowpat consistency, and are discolored and highly pungent.

She has been trumping these buckets of milk up and down to the market day in, day out, dodging cowpats left by the devils own satanic herd.

Well the good news is that the creative force that has always driven you to take the road less travelled [or the road strewn with potholes and cowpats as it seems sometimes] is a POWERFUL force that can help your art career to blossom and your artwork to sell successfully.

«In the Hall of the Mountain King» is one of the most recognizable classical compositions in the world but, ironically, was composed by Edvard Grieg as a satire intended to reek of cowpats, ultra-Norwegianism, and «to - thyself - be-enough-ness».

The cowpat munchers have astonishingly sophisticated visual systems — and they're teaching us a few tricks about seeing in the dark

However, a number of species also proved to be resistant: earthworms and springtails living in the ground underneath the cowpats were not notably affected, and a parallel test ultimately revealed that dung degradation was not significantly impaired.

Even as he rages at the seeming impossibility of finding a single acre of desert free of beer cans or cowpats, Alcock is scrupulously honest in reporting both sides of controversial issues of science and policy.

The kerb on the right is another tempting feature, but the cowpats that have been added are now too high for most cars.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is more common in older cats and can cause liquid «cowpat - like» stools as the bowel no longer absorbs liquid.

What would one do with these cowpat - sized objects?

Mmmm, smell that money — but watch out for the cowpats.