Animals
Names like Fox and Hounds, Dog and Duck, Dog and Gun, etc., refer to hunting (see below). Animal names coupled with colours, such as White Hart and Red Lion, or of foreign or rare animals, are often heraldic (see below).
- Fox & Hounds, West Witton
- Guide Dog, Southampton.
- Hen and Chickens
- Pigs, Edgefield, Norfolk, formerly Three Pigs, originally Bacon Arms.
Individual animals once famous in a particular locality sometimes give their names to pubs:
- Blue Cap, Cheshire: named after a noted 18th century foxhound marked with a dark patch on its head.
- Smoker, Cheshire: named after a grey horse which was the mount of a local landowner.
- Tiger Inn. Examples are found in Sussex, Kent, Dorset and Yorkshire.
Pubs may also be named after racehorses, although the connection may not be readily apparent. In some cases names may refer to once-famous racehorses. These include: Dr Syntax (Preston), Alice Hawthorn (Nun Monkton), Golden Miller (Longstowe), Slow and Easy (Lostock Gralam), Windmill (Tabley), Happy Man, (Manchester), and Spinner and Bergamot (Northwich, Cheshire),
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Famous quotes containing the word animals:
“From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Old women snore violently. They are like bodies into which bizarre animals have crept at night; the animals are vicious, bawdy, noisy. How they snore! There is no shame to their snoring. Old women turn into old men.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“who cooked rotten animals lung heart feet tailborscht & tortillas
dreaming of the pure vegetable kingdom,”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)