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Arrived on shore, his good intents Were dwindled to the smoke which rose An offering merely for the nose, From half a dozen beefless bones.

From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur

Cows, whether the fine old "line-backs" of the hills or scrawny, beefless Alderneys or milkless Durhams, have one merit with a boy.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various