Lexicographical Neighbors of Showyards
Literary usage of Showyards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1881)
"Some admirers of the breed, who have a distinct recollection of the animals that
gained fame in showyards twenty-five or thirty years ago, maintain that, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"They arc rarely seen outside their locality except when they appear in the showyards.
The Sussex breed resembles the North Devon in many ..."
3. Shorthorn Cattle: A Series of Historical Sketches, Memoirs and Records of by Alvin Howard Sanders (1918)
"The two latter were sent into the leading showyards of the North in 1862 and 1863
and overcame all opposition. Indeed, the use and exhibition of these bulls ..."
4. Canada in the Twentieth Century by Arthur Granville Bradley (1905)
"... but going far afield into the States, and often beating the Yankees in their
own showyards and reaping his reward in fancy prices for bulls and heifers. ..."
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