Butchering Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Butchering


Whoe’er has gone thro’ London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep’s Or bullock’s personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters—and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown. Hood—A Butcher.	1
Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect ’twas he that made the slaughter? Henry VI. Pt. II. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 188.	2
Why, that’s spoken like an honest drovier; so they sell bullocks. Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 201.	3
The butcher in his killing clothes. Walt Whitman—The Workingmen. Pt. VI. St. 32.	4