pasturing

• He who would question him   Must sail alone at sunset where the stream   Of ocean sleeps around those foamless isles When the young moon is westering as now And evening airs wander upon the wave And, when the pines of that bee-pasturing isle Green Erebinthus, quench the fiery shadow   Of his gilt prow within the sapphire water Then must the lonely helmsman cry aloud Ahasuerus!' —  Four Years
• Even sheep are seen pasturing, with cattle and horses. —  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
• But if thou wouldst learn even these things, that thou mayest well know my lineage (for many know it), there is a city, Ephyra, in a nook of horse-pasturing Argos; there dwelt Sisyphus, who was the most cunning of mortals, Sisyphus, son of Æolus; and he begat a son, Glaucus. —  The Iliad of Homer (1873)
• Boreas, however, was enamoured of some of these when pasturing, and having likened himself to an azure-maned steed, covered them; and they, becoming pregnant, brought forth twelve female foals; which when they bounded upon the fruitful earth, ran over the highest fruit of the stalks of corn, nor did they break them:[653] but when they sported over the broad back of the ocean, they ran along the surface of the ridge of the hoary sea. —  The Iliad of Homer (1873)
• It was agreed that Borden should have the use of part of the little farm for pasturing, and in return was to give the Thompsons two quarts of milk a day and two pounds of butter per week, and also a dozen fresh eggs a week while the hens were laying That will certainly help us out wonderfully," said Mrs. Thompson. "Butter, eggs, and milk are quite an item of expense And that is not all," said Randy. —  Randy of the River The Adventures of a Young Deckhand

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