163 Verbs to Use for the Word herds

Between the road and the river we saw a large herd of buffaloes grazing quietly, they having been down to the stream for a drink.

I replied that it would be better for me to go alone, and then the soldiers could keep right on to Fort Larned, while I could drive the herd down on the bottom.

Ali, who was watching the herd, came at nightfall and met his friend.

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.

A general stampede ensued at times, which often led the herd into morasses, or the quick-sand of the rivers, where they perished miserably.

"Sometimes he brings his herd to feed on the hillside, and when I see him here another time I shall take you to him, and put you on his back.

Then he turned his eyes on the plain and tried to find the herd of wild cattle, but they were no longer visible; it was as he had seen it in the morning with the pale blue haze over all the distant earth.

Then with a yell of demoniac rage my companions clambered over the rampart of dead seals and attacked the herd.

Whilst Paris kept his herd on Ida down, Cupid ne'er sought him out, for he is blind; But when he left the field to live in town, He fell into his snare, and brought that brand From Greece to Troy, which after set on fire Strong Ilium, and all the Phryges land: "Such are the fruits of love, such is his hire.

Have they the exclusive occupation of an extensive and fertile tract of country for the culture of their own crops, and for rearing immense herds of their own cattleand all these held independently of their masters, and regarded by them as inviolable?

A number of them generally surround the herd and then dash in upon them, and in this way each one kills from one to four buffaloes.

[COWPER, THE RELIGIOUS RECLUSE] I was a stricken deer that left the herd Long since; with many an arrow deep infixed My panting side was charged, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.

Both species of bears occur throughout the pine forests in summer, often following sheep herds.

" "I make a motion we elect Skinny to ride herd on 'em!"

Or it advertises the negligence of the stockmen who guarded the comparatively tiny herds of the period.

They owned a herd of horses and mules and a few cattle, and had cultivated a small piece of land.

In the mean time, as the bull approached the herd, or school,[*] as the whalers term it, the boats' crew began to haul in line, the boat-steerer coiling it away carefully, in a tub placed in the stern-sheets purposely to receive it.

With my hand upon the knife in my belt, I leaned heavily against the fence while counting the herd.

Are we on the way to a parody which shall have no other excuse than the reckless search after fodder for degraded appetitesafter the pay to be earned by pasturing Circe's herd where they may defile every monument of that growing life which should have kept them human?

He was a humane man, and so he carried the little Perdita home to his wife, who nursed it tenderly: but poverty tempted the shepherd to conceal the rich prize he had found; therefore he left that part of the country, that no one might know where he got his riches, and with part of Perdita's jewels he bought herds of sheep, and became a wealthy shepherd.

The author of the Gesta Stephani says: "Scotland, also called Albany, is a country overspread by extensive moors, but containing flourishing woods and pastures, which feed large herds of cows and oxen."

I, with the gentle instincts of a civilized man, was forced to order the beheading of spies and traitors, the binding of women in chains and the kidnapping of children, to raid the herds, to make of myself an Attila.

During one of my visits there, a Crow Indian rode up to the gate and deliberately turned his herd of horses into the inclosure to graze.

We continued trekking on until sundown, when we started an immense herd of buffaloes, into which I stalked, and shot a huge old bull.

They, too, noticed the buffalo herd, and in another moment they were dashing down upon them, urging their steeds to the greatest speed.

163 Verbs to Use for the Word  herds