The cattle were quietly grazing near the wagons, while the emigrants were either resting or attending to camp duties.

It has adjacent to it extensive grazing lands, on which are hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep, and horses.

" Sending Ned for a spade, I soon unearthed one of the large bulbous roots, which I divided into pieces, and, accompanying the boys to the spring, practically demonstrated its remarkable saponaceous qualities, leaving them delighted with the experiment; but had hardly returned to my blanket again when I was startled by the report of two rifles, that came from below us, near the base of the mountains where our animals were grazing.

The country around the city is a vast plain, for many years, and still, a grazing country, a land of horses and cattle.

The sounds came softly through the still Dakota air, and my eye took in every sharp-drawn detail of the sceneponies grazing along the creek bottom, children playing beneath the blue smoke of camp-fires, the dense crowd ringed about a medicine pole in their center, intent on a war-dance.

Somewhere about, you are sure to see a huge herd, of cattle, often white, and generally brightly marked, grazing.

Into this our road led, between hills covered with wood, with here and there a lovely green meadow, where herds of cattle were grazing.

The path led along the side of a glen where mountain goats were grazing, and further down we saw cattle feeding on the little spots of verdure which lay in the forest.

Men who break in wild cattle for harness watch assiduously for those who show a self-reliant nature, by grazing apart or ahead of the rest, and these they break in for fore-oxen.

No ox grazing alone could live for many days unless he were protected, far more assiduously and closely than is possible to barbarians.

If they were more gregarious they would crowd so closely as to interfere with each other when grazing the scattered pasture of Damara land; if less gregarious, they would be too widely scattered to keep a sufficient watch against the wild beasts.

" [Illustration: "Even Clarissa stopped her grazing long enough to look up."] "You have no right to doubt my sinceritynot yet," she said.

Even Clarissa stopped her grazing long enough to look up, ears erect, eying the musician in grave surprise, and then, with a contemptuous flirt of her tail, went on with her repast.

Mr. Riley found them "grazing promiscuously with other stock in the park, and appearing extremely docile.

They were grazing with bucolic tranquillity on the maritime pasture lands, contemplated from afar by the mussels, the oysters, and other bi-valves, attached to the rocks by a hard and horny hank of silk that enwrapped their enclosures.

"'I sawI now seea woman-Titan; her robe of blue air spreads to the outskirts of the heath, where yonder flock is grazing; a veil, white as an avalanche, sweeps from her head to her feet, and arabesques of lightning flame on its borders.

Then all the flocks and herds that were grazing on the mountains would hear him, wherever they might happen to be, and would come down to the villagethe cows by the easiest paths, the sheep by those not quite so easy, and the goats by the steep and rocky ways that were hardest of all.

He was sitting in the shade of a tree near the water's edge, while his white horse was grazing near by.

In a few years the whole of the east and centre of the island, except a few insignificant cultivated patches, was leased in great "runs" of from 10,000 to 100,000 acres to grazing tenants.

Pastoral "runs"i.e., grazing leasesmust not be larger than such as will carry 20,000 sheep or 4,000 cattle, and no one can hold more than one run.

"Country" is used as a synonym for grazing; "good country" means simply good grazing land.

"Country" is used as a synonym for grazing; "good country" means simply good grazing land.

The grazing of sheep and cattle, dairying, agriculture, and mining for coal and gold, are the chief occupations.

Gorst, Sir John, 276, 277. Grazing, 406.

Casey strung into Searchlight one evening at dusk and camped on a little knoll behind the town hall, which was open beyond for grazing, and the village dogs were less likely to bother.