shepherd-boy

Lycaelon would dispense with servers if he had an important gathering of his fellow Mages here, animating a single simulacra that he kept on view, serving double-duty the rest of the time as a chaste statue of a shepherd-boy, but with no one here to impress but his son, human servants were cheaper, easily replaced if they gave offense, and took very little thought on his part-only orders.

Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

‘Mills, shall I recall some words to you — the words of an oath taken on that hill by a shepherd-boy?’

A Changed Man 2006

Fear seized upon the shepherd-boy: the Duke was Jove himself to the rural population, whom to offend was starvation, homelessness, and death, and whom to look at was to be mentally scathed and dumbfoundered.

A Changed Man 2006

But it was necessary that several years should elapse before the shepherd-boy was old enough to reason out this.

A Changed Man 2006

Through many changes, Lionel's consciousness of his status as a "shepherd-boy" remains with him until the end of the novel.

Note: shepherd 2002

We were fatigued by our struggles to attain this point, and seated ourselves on the rocky couch, while the sounds of tinkling sheep-bells, and shout of shepherd-boy, reached us from above.

Introduction, I.1 2002

I was an untaught shepherd-boy, when Adrian deigned to confer on me his friendship.

The Last Man 2003

We were fatigued by our struggles to attain this point, and seated ourselves on the rocky couch, while the sounds of tinkling sheep-bells, and shout of shepherd-boy, reached us from above.

The Last Man 2003

“I can make but one defence,” replied Idris, “the same offered by my brother; see Lionel, converse with my shepherd-boy” —

The Last Man 2003

Lycaelon would dispense with servers if he had an important gathering of his fellow Mages here, animating a single simulacra that he kept on view, serving double-duty the rest of the time as a chaste statue of a shepherd-boy, but with no one here to impress but his son, human servants were cheaper, easily replaced if they gave offense, and took very little thought on his part — only orders.

The Outstretched Shadow 2003