Herdsman Sentence Examples

Thyrsis sings to a goatherd how Daphnis, the mythical herdsman, having defied the power of Aphrodite, dies rather than yield to a passion with which the goddess had inspired him.

Mama Jeng, of similar age to Wurie Juwe, was a hired herdsman.

The Versus practically reproduce in outline Bwda's account of Ca dmon's dream, without mentioning the dream, but describing the poet as a herdsman, and adding that his poems, beginning with the creation, relate the history of the five ages of the world down to the coming of Christ.

He and his twin-brother Neleus were exposed by their mother, but were nurtured by a herdsman.

The abbess Hild and her monks recognized that the illiterate herdsman had received a gift from heaven, and, in order to test his powers, proposed to him that he should try to render into verse a portion of sacred history which they explained to him.

He was, according to Bceda (see Bede), a herdsman, who received a divine call to poetry by means of a dream.

The land he tills he holds, and acquires a closer connexion with a particular patch of ground than either the hunter or the herdsman.

Neolithic man, however, found such a dwelling impossible, for he became a herdsman and an agriculturist.

Sam arrived at Brookfield Farm in May 2004 as a new, much needed, herdsman.

Subsequently Laban employed Jacob as his chief herdsman, but failed to pay him fairly.

Midway through the book, Robert is making notes on an Inca mommy which they are shown by a local herdsman.

He was rewarded a few days later by a Fulani herdsman reporting that he had left seven lions watching his herd of cattle.

A Mongolian herdsman entered the tent so after misinterpreting Gans comment to offer him a cigarette, I give him the a whole packet.

Originally home to Clanville Manor farm's herdsman, the internal accommodation is modern and comfortable.

It whistled among the bare branches of the gnarled oaks in Nant-y-Garth and it sighed wearily around the herdsman's lonely cottage.

She sorely persecuted Antiope, his first wife, who escaped to Mount Cithaeron, where her twin sons Amphion and Zethus were being brought up by a herdsman who was ignorant of their parentage.

As the name for a keeper of a herd or flock of domestic animals, the herdsman, it is usually qualified to denote the kind of animal under his protection, as swine-herd, shepherd, &c., but in Ireland, Scotland and the north of England, "herd" alone is commonly used.

The Arab is a herdsman and a nomad; the Berber is an agriculturist and a townsman.

It would be impossible to prove that Cadmon was not the author, though the production of such a work by the herdsman of Streanashalch would certainly deserve to rank among the miracles of genius.

Nearly 200 years later a herdsman of Ephesus rediscovered the cave on Mount Coelian, and, letting in the light, awoke the inmates, who sent one of their number (Jamblicus) to buy food.

The colonists also, pressing forward to those territories, came in contact with these Ishmaelites - the farmers' cattle and sheep, guarded only by a Hottentot herdsman, offering the strongest temptation to the Bushman.

However, I should never have broken a horse or bull and taken him to board for any work he might do for me, for fear I should become a horseman or a herdsman merely; and if society seems to be the gainer by so doing, are we certain that what is one man's gain is not another's loss, and that the stable-boy has equal cause with his master to be satisfied?

It was found that the government by Boule and Ecclesia did not mean popular control in the full sense; it meant government by the leisured classes, inasmuch as the industrious farmer or herdsman could not leave his work to give his vote at the Ecclesia, or do his duty as a councillor.

Apollo himself is spoken of as a keeper of flocks, and the legends of his service as a herdsman with Laomedon and Admetus point in the same direction.

It is possible that some of the rest may be the composition of the Northumbrian herdsman; but in the absence of any authenticated example of the poet's work to serve as a basis of comparison, the internal evidence can afford no ground for an affirmative conclusion.