Sublime

Note: * If Mr. Harbison had owned a slave named Bull, Tom would have spoken of him as “Harbison’s Bull,” but a son or a dog of that name was “Bull Harbison.

Mark Twain • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Bulls and lone cows often hang back, deferring risk to the gangly youngsters and their travel-weary mothers.

Caroline Van Hemert • The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

Be as Relentless as the Cows

Willis Johnson • Junk to Gold: From Salvage to the World’S Largest Online Auto Auction

foxhog.

Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It

Clean Old-fashioned Hate

Tom Wolfe • A Man in Full: A Novel

In an entry for bull as so used, the OED suggests the following as definitive: “trivial, insincere, or untruthful talk or writing; nonsense.”

Harry G. Frankfurt • On Bullshit

Bill and other wild buffaloes of the prairies. In other words, there is really present here a democratic instinct against the domination of wealth.