2711 examples of herding in sentences

The remainder of the summer and fall I spent in herding cattle and working for Russell, Majors & Waddell.

Other officers arrived, herding men.

Only anarchy has banished cultivation; for, since the Ottoman pretension was established over the land, it has been the battleground of brigand tribesKurds from the hills and Arabs from the desert, skirmishing or herding their flocks, making or breaking alliance, but always robbing any tiller of the land of the fruits of his labour.

We hear the ring of them heels on the porch, and pretty soon in comes the sheriff, herding a gent in ahead of him.

I could barely make out a horseman, herding along two animals.

Again, at nightfall, a cub's hunting cry, ooooo, ow-ow! ooooo, ow-ow! a deep, almost musical hoot with two short barks at the end, would come singing down from the uplands; and the wolves, leaving instantly the game they were following, would hasten up to find the two cubs herding a caribou in a cleft of the rocks,a young caribou that had lost his mother at the hands of the hunters, and that did not know how to take care of himself.

In due time the goslin appeared, and Billy fed it from his own scanty fare, taking it with him when he was herding.

A-herding my sheep in the bush, as they call it It was no bush at all, but a mighty great wood, Wid all the big trees that were small bushes one time, A long time ago, faith I spose fore the flood.

Her arms held fast, Sofia was partly led and partly dragged down the hall, Victor herding the group on past the staircase and into a bare room at the back of the house, where a solitary lamp burning on a deal table discovered for all other furnishing broken chairs, coils of tarred rope, a rack of ponderous oars and boat-hooks, a display of shapeless oilskins and sou'westers on pegs.

For his particular offence, I would have had the old hulks maintained in the Hamoaze, with all their severities; as it is, the posturer may find Dartmoor pretty stiff, but will yet have the consolation of herding with his betters.

Men must guard themselves at any price against insults and injuries; and where they receive not protection from the laws and magistrate, they will seek it by submission to superiors, and by herding in some private confederacy which acts under the direction of a powerful leader.

Then by degrees the cowboys who were herding cattle in the neighborhood began to drop hints of possible interference, and while these suggestions were being discussed a company of United States troops suddenly appeared.

The work of cattle herding and feeding to-day certainly differs in a most remarkable manner from that of thirty and even twenty years ago, and the man has naturally changed with his work.

Another writer, who was himself for more than a quarter of a century engaged in the work of herding cattle, gives a much fairer description of the cowboy.

It comforts me to read of such steady, quiet places as the Pentland Hills and of the decent men who do their herding there.

Girl, you're goin' to be a picture that will live in the hearts of fellows and keep 'em warm when they're herding winter nights.

You should be there now, playing a gentle shepherd's pipe and herding his peaceful flocks.

With this there is also associated the grazing or herding over wider or more restricted areas, belonging either collectively or discretely to the community, of sheep, cattle, goats, or swine, and almost always the domestic fowl is commensal with man in this life.

Experiments have been carried on which have shown the advantages of new feeding and herding methods.

The herding day.

GILFILLAN, ARCHER B. The herding day.

Great favorites with all the cowboys, they learned many a trick of roping steers and riding, and they were never so happy as when, together with Bill and Horace, they were allowed to pass a few days herding.

Joachim herding his Sheep on the Mountain.

The walls are of limestone carved with reliefs representing the important processes of daily life,sowing, reaping, cattle-herding, hunting, pot-making, weaving,all those actions which furnish the daily supplies.

Three or four times during the day we passed heaps of reindeer's antlers, and piles of ashes surrounded by large circles of evergreen twigs, which marked the sites of Korak tents; but the band of wild nomads which had left these traces had long before disappeared, and was now perhaps herding its deer on the wind-swept shores of the Arctic Ocean.

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