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  • noun Alternative spelling of cattle drive.

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Examples

  • A self-described “midlist author,” McMurtry is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning cattle-drive saga Lonesome Dove 1985, although he has written better novels and worse—thirty in all.

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • A self-described “midlist author,” McMurtry is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning cattle-drive saga Lonesome Dove 1985, although he has written better novels and worse—thirty in all.

    Literary Life 2010

  • The cattle-drive northward from Texas between the years 1866 and 1885 was approximately as follows:

    The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

  • Men there working on schedule started the cattle-drive.

    The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925

  • Stone-fishing is in reality a fish - drive, similar in principle to a rabbit-drive or a cattle-drive, though in the latter affairs drivers and driven operate in the same medium, while in the fish-drive the men must be in the air to breathe and the fish are driven through the water.

    Chapter 13 1913

  • Stone-fishing is in reality a fish - drive, similar in principle to a rabbit-drive or a cattle-drive, though in the latter affairs drivers and driven operate in the same medium, while in the fish-drive the men must be in the air to breathe and the fish are driven through the water.

    Chapter 13 1911

  • On the other side of the mill-pond was an open place called the Cross, because it was three - quarters of one, two lanes and a cattle-drive meeting there.

    The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

  • Nylon, Pantyhose and Horses is my account of an 85 mile cattle-drive that took me from Ashcroft to Kamloops, British Columbia way back in 1994.

    BC Bloggers Manic Tapas 2010

  • Nylon, Pantyhose and Horses is my account of an 85 mile cattle-drive that took me from Ashcroft to Kamloops, British Columbia way back in 1994.

    BC Bloggers 2010

  • Time to lasso this geriatric legislator and cattle-drive her to the local Panda Express, where we shall force feed her orange chicken and chow mein until she pukes and cries Charlie!

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

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