blind staggers

Eight tons of alloy with the blind staggers isn't much of a selling point.

Research in Ontario revealed that Pneumostrongylus was, indeed, responsible for the blind staggers!

A rangy Negro skittering over the dance floor, all ripples and blind staggers.

He was like a horse with the blind staggers and the best thing you could do for him was to shoot him on the spot.

I got up and opened the door and McMillan, with a heavy tread but no sign of the blind staggers, passed out.

As for the blind staggers, he had seen a number of moose suffering from the condition, but this could be safely attributed to eating poison vetch.

I ain't 'ad me 'ands on a decent case o' glanders, spavin, epizootic or blind staggers since they mechanized the cavalry and tinned orl the 'orses fer bully-beef.

This plant, also known as locoweed worked slowly and eventually led to a condition that was known as the blind staggers, a term that, when I remembered the bull's behavior, was certainly apt enough.

Early in this century, thousands of cattle, horses and sheep in Wyoming, Utah, Nebraska and South Dakota were felled by two seemingly unrelated conditions called "alkali disease" and "blind staggers.

Lorenzo Snow, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known to have a "natural love for novelty" had been buzzing the streets in an automobile that was giving Salt Lake horses "the blind staggers."

"Maria" (to his wife), "what was that cat's name that eat a keg of ratsbane by mistake over at Hooper's, and started home and got struck by lightning and took the blind staggers and fell in the well and was 'most drowned.

If common belief was correct and the blind staggers resulted from eating poison vetch, it was unlikely that the carcass would be harmful to the scavengers of the forest, inasmuch as most of the poison would have been "burned off" the victim and what remained in the tissues would be spread throughout the body.

He looked at my teeth and examined my hock, and said my age and general condition were favorable to energetic measures; therefore he would give me something to turn the stomach-ache into the botts and the cold in the head into the blind staggers; then he should be on his own beat and would know what to do.

I believe the mash was necessary to the conversion of the stomach-ache into the botts, but I think one could develop the blind staggers out of the literature by itself; also, that blind staggers produced in this way would be of a better quality and more lasting than any produced by the artificial processes of the horse-doctor.