It was also, though no one mentioned it, the tethered goat.

Beyond the house a small child attending two tethered goats stared at me for a moment and ran away.

Standing silently beside it, he could make out the tethered goat.

Then why stay here like a tethered goat?

The nearest vampire was just inside the building, laughing still, and I was sitting like a tethered goat.

She looked a bloody leopard staring at three tethered goats.

The courtyard was inhabited by three tethered goats that stared malevolently at me.

Sami followed his father, walking a few steps behind him, feeling like a tethered goat.

Maybe he could not pick one from another, yet these women smelled like wolves studying a tethered goat.

But the tethered goat wasn't about to put his trust in strangers, much less sit and wait until the tiger swallowed him alive.