swineherd

• Neither Greek nor Trojan sways him; Achilles is his hero; Hector is his favorite; he loves the councils of chiefs and the palace of Priam; but the swineherd, the charioteer, the slave girl, the hound, the beggar, and the herdsman, all glow alike in the harmonious coloring of his peopled epic. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
• Perhaps nature intended me for a swineherd, instead, of a baron. —  Sketches
• Leaving the ship he came to the dwelling of the servant he most trusted--to the dwelling of Eumæus, the swineherd IX On the morning of his fourth day in Ithaka, as he and the swineherd were eating a meal together, Odysseus heard the sound of footsteps approaching the hut. —  The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy
• Moreover, since pigs are hardly likely to be kept for the mere love of those unsavoury animals, pig-owning, or swine-herding, must have been, and evidently was, regarded as a suspicious and degrading occupation by strict Jews, in the first century A.D. But I should like to know on what provision of the Mosaic Law, as it is laid down in the Pentateuch, Mr. Gladstone bases the assumption, which is essential to his case, that the possession of pigs and the calling of a swineherd were actually illegal. —  Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
• Ulysses saw, and smiled to see, what care he took of everything, while he thought his master was far away On the following morning] Ulysses and the swineherd were already preparing their breakfast when Telemachus came up. —  The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10)

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