Conal had been driving them through Wirreeford at intervals of two or three months, taking the fattened beasts back on the return journey over the border after he brought down the starvers.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
The wildest of the scrub-bred warrigals, broken by the long day's steady trotting, hustled up quietly against Maitland's well-fattened store beasts.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
"fattened up-yes, possibly," he thought.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim