The herds of horses were a further excellent source of income, for they could be sold to the Sung, who had no horses.

Whether or not he kept with the herd was by now a matter of supreme indifference to him.

Their herds became valueless, for animal products could not be carried over the long distance to the new capital.

There Faunus and Sylvanus keep their courts, And thither all the horned host resorts To graze the ranker mead; that noble herd On whose sublime and shady fronts is rear'd Nature's great masterpiece; to show how soon, Great things are made, but sooner are undone.

'Some of these fine mornings,' as he expressed it, 'Captain Gar'ner would turn out, and find that his herd was offgone to pasture in some other field.'

Pasture is "feed," herd and flock alike become "mob."

This herd of nobodiesyounger sons with courtesy titles and empty pockets, ruined Guardsmen, briefless barristerswhat was the use of telling Lady Maulevrier about such barren victories?

Even a herd of swine, eating the acorns under those magnificent oaks of Blenheim, would be cleanlier and of better habits than ordinary swine.

The horned herd was his care: a glance might tell So much: for every inch a herdsman he.

Herds of asses are some times employed by merchants, like those who transport wine, or oil, or corn, or any other commodity, from Brundisium or Apulia to the sea, by pack trains.

The herd are survivors of the wild ox or Bos primigenius.