Sentence examples for blackleg from inspiring English sources

Protective bactericidal sprays, paints, or drenches containing copper or antibiotics are used against bacterial blights of beans and celery, fire blight, crown gall, blackleg of delphinium, and filbert and walnut blights.

A series of acute, often gangrenous, infections in livestock and waterfowl are caused by other species of Clostridium: braxy (C. septicum), blackleg (C. chauvoei), bacillary hemoglobinuria (C. haemolyticum), and black disease and bighead (C. novyi).

Successful vaccinations have been developed for blackleg, malignant edema, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (or red nose), and several other diseases.

He is then going to get his supply of liquor from some little blackleg brewery, get a license and go into legitimate business.

Now, he leans over his guitar and begins strumming the melody and summoning the vengeful lyrics: "Across the way they stretch a line/ To catch the throat and break the spine/ Of the dirty blackleg miner".

His first film as producer was The Angry Silence, an anti-trades union tract, in which Attenborough was a blackleg and yet a hero.

Few other presidents of the Royal Agricultural Society or the Royal Smithfield Club could recite a flock's afflictions as she could – "Orf scrapie, swayback, blackleg, water mouth or rattlebelly, scab and footrot, scad or scald" – or work with a sheepdog, and she appreciated a whippet or two about her feet.

By contrast, the Blackleg at La Petite Maison costs £35.

If you choose to go, and I think you should, here's what you do: before drinks, menus or even the word 'hello' has been offered, tell your waiter that you want the whole Blackleg chicken and that it should go in the oven now.

With a terrible clarity, it dawns on him that this means breaking the strike, and joining the cowering blacklegs who are bussed in through the picket lines every morning.

"Retiring troops, meeting a fresh division going bravely into action, shouted out things like 'blackleg' and 'you're prolonging the war', expressions that were to be heard again later".