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Its condition is absolutely wonderful--nor is the history of its locomotiveness less surprising.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and ox half-way.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 by Various