goatherd

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He scaled the rocks like a goatherd, and his foot-tracks in the snow were long, like the route of a giant.

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  1. One whose occupation is the care of goats. Is not thilke same a goteheard prowde, That sittes on yonder bancke, Whose straying heard them selfe doth shrowde Emong the bushes rancke? Spenser, Shep. Cal., July. The goatherd, blessed man! had lips Wet with the muses' nectar. Wordsworth, Prelude, xi.

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  • The goatherd, strange to say, became a courtier pure and simple, who had no ambition but to make love to every woman who came within his range. —  OM: The Secret of Ahbor Valley
  • On the hills the goatherd, high in air amongst the arbutus branches, will scatter on the lonely mountain-side stanzas of purest rhythm. —  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
  • He scaled the rocks like a goatherd, and his foot-tracks in the snow were long, like the route of a giant. —  Bohemian Days Three American Tales
  • He was a goatherd, and Melanthius was his name. —  The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy
  • When all the arrows were gone, he put the helmet on his head and took up the shield that Telemachus had brought, and the two great spears But now Melanthius, the goatherd--he who was the enemy of Odysseus, got into the chamber where the arms were kept, and brought out spears and shields and helmets, and gave them to the wooers. —  The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy
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  1. Early modern English also goiteheard; from ME. gootherde, gateheyrd, from Anglo-Saxon gāta hyrde (= SW. getherde = Dan. gedehyrde): gāta, genitive plural of gāt, a goat; hyrde, a herd, keeper.
 

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