He is only a man, soft and tender, and he faces the wild
bull in conflict.
"The
bull makes a rush, with murder in his eye, but a picador meets him with a spear-thrust in the shoulder.
Then Meav's sorrow was bitter, and calling a messenger, she asked if he knew where might be found a young
bull to match with White- horned.
Dropping the body of the girl to the ground the
bull turned to battle anew for possession of his expensive prize; but this time he looked for an easy conquest.
A savage growl close behind him apprised Tarzan of the nearness of Taug, and the fact that the
bull had heard the warnings and threats of his mate and was coming to her succor.
It was no more than an ordinary camp marking- flag; but the regiment, always punctilious in matters of millinery, had charged it with the regimental device, the Red
Bull, which is the crest of the Mavericks - the great Red
Bull on a background of Irish green.
He is cased in a cuirass of double-fold deer skin, and carries a
bull's hide shield; he is forked in a Moorish saddle, high before and behind; his feet are thrust into wooden box stirrups, of Moorish fashion, and a tremendous pair of iron spurs, fastened by chains, jingle at his heels.
Time and again the colossal
bull tossed the enormous tiger high into the air, but each time that the huge cat touched the ground he returned to the encounter with apparently undiminished strength, and seemingly increased ire.
Nevertheless, it was the suddenness with which she had perceived the
bull, rather than anything frightful in his appearance, that caused Europa so much alarm.
He saw the Negroes gather about the prostrate form and later carry it into the hut; and once he rose to his full height upon the limb where he had been squatting and raised his face to the heavens to scream out a savage protest and a challenge, for he had recognized in the brown-skinned Tarmangani the strange white ape who had come among them a night or two before in the midst of their Dum-Dum, and who by so easily mastering the greatest among them, had won the savage respect and admiration of this fierce young
bull.
Then I turned to see how Good had fared with the big
bull, which I had heard screaming with rage and pain as I gave mine its quietus.
Bring up the great
bull buffaloes, the blue-skinned herd
bulls with the angry eyes.