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1  A time of peril on the killing beds was when a steer broke loose.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
2  The room echoed with the thuds in quick succession, and the stamping and kicking of the steers.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
3  He was a "floorsman" at Jones's, and a wounded steer had broken loose and mashed him against a pillar.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
4  Those on the flying truck yelled a warning and the crowd scattered pell-mell, disclosing one of the steers lying in its blood.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
5  It was late in the afternoon when they got back, and they dressed out the remainder of the steer, and a couple of others that had been killed, and then knocked off for the day.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
6  Red cattle, black, white, and yellow cattle; old cattle and young cattle; great bellowing bulls and little calves not an hour born; meek-eyed milch cows and fierce, long-horned Texas steers.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
7  Now and then, when the bosses were not looking, you would see them plunging their feet and ankles into the steaming hot carcass of the steer, or darting across the room to the hot-water jets.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
8  He was provided with a stiff besom, such as is used by street sweepers, and it was his place to follow down the line the man who drew out the smoking entrails from the carcass of the steer; this mass was to be swept into a trap, which was then closed, so that no one might slip into it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
9  There was said to be two thousand dollars a week hush money from the tubercular steers alone; and as much again from the hogs which had died of cholera on the trains, and which you might see any day being loaded into boxcars and hauled away to a place called Globe, in Indiana, where they made a fancy grade of lard.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9