Vast herds of these monarchs of the plains were roaming all around us, and we laid over one day for a grand hunt.

We caught but few of the cattle; the most of them having been driven off and stampeded with the buffaloes, there being numerous immense herds of the latter in that section of the country at that time.

We caught but few of the cattle; the most of them having been driven off and stampeded with the buffaloes, there being numerous immense herds of the latter in that section of the country at that time.

He does not resemble the vulgar herd of mortals, he does not form his conduct upon precedent, nor defend it by example.

But, as the shore of this vast sea of sand, Stretches afar a country rich and green, With waving foliage shading all the land, And flowing waters bright with sunny sheen; And here browse countless herds of dappled deer, Blesboks and antelopes, remote from fear.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

"Hark ye," said he, "yonder, at the glade's end, I see a herd of deer, even more than threescore rods distant.

On either bank lay a country cultivated indeed, but chiefly pastoral, producing a rich herbage, grazed by innumerable herds, among which I observed with interest several flocks of large birds, kept, as Esmo informed me, partly for their plumage.

At early dawn, the swine-herd takes his stand at the outskirts of the first village, and begins flourishing through the misty air his immensely long lash, keeping a sort of rude time with the crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack of his whip.

When the old bull vacated this delectable bath, another bull, scarcely if at all less ferocious-looking, stepped forward to take his turn; but he was interrupted by a volley from the hunters, which scattered the animals right and left, and sent the mighty herds in the distance flying over the prairie in wild terror.

When we read the reports of travelers and trappers, written little more than half a century ago, and treating of the enormous buffalo herds that covered the prairies as far as the eye could reach, we wonder whether these descriptions can be real, or whether they are not more in the line of fables and the outgrowth of a too vivid imagination.

We strolled through some of the empty streets and into the citadel, where a handful of German soldiers were guarding a placid, tan-colored little herd of Russian prisoners; recrossed the pontoon bridge, as crowded as it had been the afternoon before, and then stopped at Kobilany fort on the way back to Ivangorod.

He concealed himself under a peasant’s habit, and lived some time in the house of a neat-herd, who had been intrusted with the care of some of his cows [s].

" At Wood River the plains seethed with buffalo, a frightened herd of which one night caused a stampede of their cattle.

Next day the command started; when encamped, several days after, on the Republican river near the mouth of the Beaver, we heard the whoops of Indians, followed by shots in the vicinity of the mule herd, which had been taken down to water.

(And how few guards are necessary to watch this tame herd!)

In spite of the continual traps of the fishermen, the marine herds keep themselves intact because of their infinite powers of reproduction.

At last, of the pan of dirt nothing remained but his golden herd.

Sure he presumed of praise, who came to stock The ethereal pastures with so fair a flock, Burnish'd, and battening on their food, to show 390 Their diligence of careful herds below.

Here and there they passed over broad stretches of prairie, the grass of which would feed numberless herds of cattle.

the great and good go together in separate herds, and leave such as I to lag far, far behind in all intellectual and, far more grievous to say, in all moral accomplishments.

The course of the stampeded herd was changing.

But first the ocean as a tribute sent The giant prince of all her watery herd; And the Isle, when her protecting genius went, Upon his obsequies loud sighs conferr'd.

Of all this servile herd, the worst is he That in proud dulness joins with Quality.

A few isolated herds could be found in Kentucky in 1792.