Using it The word "kine" is an archaic word related to the word "cattle" and is rarely used in modern English.
It can be used as a poetic device, and is sometimes used to refer to cattle in literature. Example: "The farmer drove his kine through the fields to the barn."
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The final stanza of that one, pace Pegler, is worth plain, non-ratiocinative admiration, even in mimicry: Oh, say, when in the bosky swale The kine are lowing, wan and pale, My love sings as the nightingale, For you are ever near.
The final stanza of that one, pace Pegler, is worth plain, non-ratiocinative admiration, even in mimicry: Oh, say, when in the bosky swale The kine are lowing, wan and pale, My love sings as the nightingale, For you are ever near.
In western South Dakota, cows stood belly deep in a ranch pond, doing their impersonation of the kine in Constable's paintings.
The first relates to the BSE mass-barbecue of 1996 – sitting in a bar in Logan airport in Boston, watching a wall-mounted TV on which JCBs shovelled and flumped rigid kine into enormous trenches.
The "laburnums, dropping wells of fire"; the "Field of charlock in the sudden sun / Between two showers, a cloth of palest gold"; the summer night in which "Couch'd at ease, / The white kine glimmered, and the trees / Laid their dark arms about the field": the "loud south-westerns, rolling ridge on ridge".
The voice Walker establishes for Celie is both insightful and limited, unsentimental and direct, and, controversially when it was published, 25 years ago this Thursday, is written in what Walker calls "folk speech": "He never had a kine word to say to me.
He defied early-nineteenth-century anti-vaxxers by introducing Edward Jenner's "kine-pock" inoculation to New York City, initially by administering it to one of his own children.
It has done so, however, through several regulations that Mr. Kine says have been used against religious minorities, including a ministerial decree that has prevented Christian groups from opening churches and the 1965 blasphemy law, which courts have used more than a dozen times since 2005 to prosecute Shiites, Christians and atheists.
"Without the wave of international support for Ai and the popular expressions of dismay and disgust about the circumstances of his disappearance and detention, it's highly unlikely the Chinese government would have released him," Phelim Kine, an Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch, said in an e-mail.
According to Tom Kine, a senior meteorologist for Accuweather, a series of slow-moving storms that repeatedly pounded the same areas have been to blame for the unusual number of rain-affected baseball games in 2011.
A recent Los Angeles Times article quoted Phelim Kine, a researcher for Human Rights Watch: "In China, the reflexive desire to cover up and hide has trumped transparency and the need to protect public health".
