230 collocations for tend

And, finally, hiding his brightness under the form of a shepherd, did not Apollo tend the flocks of Admetus?

My new guardian, as I shall call the man with whom I was left, put me into the business of tending sheep, immediately after I was left with him.

And such a man was Abraham of olda plain man, dwelling in tents, helping to tend his own cattle, fetching in the calf from the field himself, and dressing it for his guests with his own hand; but still, as the children of Heth said of him, a mighty princenot merely in wealth of flocks and herds, but a prince in manners and a prince in heart.

"Master," said Roger, "they should burn well, I trow, and yet" "And yet," quoth Walkyn, "these beams be thick: methinks, when the others go, one man should stay to tend the fires until the flame gets fair hold" "And that man I!" said Roger.

Mothers in small houses have much to do; making beds and washing dishes, sweeping and dusting, baking and cooking, making and mending, not to mention tending an infant or tending the sick, leave little leisure for sympathy with the adventuring and investigating propensities natural and desirable in a healthy child between three and five.

He was, moreover, a steady, hard-working boy; yet the only occupation he was able to obtain was that of tending a cow on the border of a large bog.

But at the post of economic duty stood the Boer woman; she was tending the herds and carrying on all the work of the farm.

This man had passed all his days and many of his nights in rearing and tending horses.

Yes, my boy, and we'll tend bar ourselves, and keep our eyes on the till, and have our own bottle of the best, and be perfect gentlemen.

Everything tends that way.

And as a swallow, at the hour of rest, Peeps often ere she darts into her nest, So to the homestead, where the grandsire tends A little prattling child, he oft descends, 485 To glance a look upon the well-matched pair; Till storm and driving ice blockade him there.

A third is tending a plant.

Once or twice a soeur jardiniere with a big, flat straw hat over her coiffe and veil tending the flowers (there were not many) or weeding the lawn, sometimes convalescents or old ladies seated in armchairs under the trees, but there was never any sound of voices or of life.

Teaching good Roger to tend thee andto drug thee to gentle sleep that I might hold thee to me in the dark andkiss thy sleeping lips" "Ah!"

Once it happened that Two-Eyes had to go into the forest to tend the goat; and she went very hungry, because her sisters had given her very little to eat that morning.

He's too short to tend a frame, but his maw lets him help her at the loomevery weaver has obliged to have helpers wait on 'em.

Father complained that he was dull and lazy; he had not cared to learn anything at school, and he was such an all-round good-for-nothing, that he could barely be made to tend geese.

"You look stout and hearty; if you learn to weave as fast as you ort, and git so you can tend five or six looms, I'll bet you git a husband," he remarked in a burst of generosity.

And, it being a red mouse as it indubitably was, to what end fancy it a tawny-throated nightingale?" While, therefore, the other pairs proceeded on the paths they had respectively chosen, this sage youth and his bride settled themselves at the parting of the ways, built their cot, tended their garden, tilled their field and raised fruits around them, including children.

However individuals may fail, yet it must be allowed that on the whole the human mind progresses, or tends to progress, from a less to a more perfect self-knowledge, to a fuller understanding of its own origin, its end and destiny, and of the kind of life by which that end is to be reached,that is, if once we admit that man is a self-interpreting creature, and the work of an intelligent Creator.

She took service on another farm where she tended the poultry; and as she was well thought of by her master, her fellow-workers soon grew jealous.

"To this point have tended all the rules I have given.

Now abject, stooping, old, and wan, No mother tends the beggar man.

He won't go to his own town, because there is nothing for him there but the almshouse, and he dreads a hospital; so struggles along, trying to earn his bread tending babies with his one arm.

Beginning with Weems's "Life of Washington" when a mere lad, he perseveringly read, through all his fortunes, all manner of books,not only during leisure hours by day, when tending mill or store, but for long months by the light of pine shavings from the cooper's shop at night, and in later times when traversing the country in his various callings.

230 collocations for  tend