cowherd's

We see again the cowherd's face contorted with effort; hear her rough breathing; feel the twisting wrench in her shoulders and back; smell the green mix of cow dung and meadow grass sucking around her boots groping for footing in the muck.

The Scenes Speak for Themslves 2009

"Perhaps, or perhaps I am thinking of the cowherd's sister," she said.

The Kitchen God's wife Tan, Amy 1991

Then an old sailor with one eye (but that a sly one) met him, and told him tales more wonderful than the cowherd's.

Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various

For the descriptions of the removal of Krishna as an infant to Nanda, the cowherd's hut, of his childhood passed in playing with the cowherd boys, and of his youth spent in amorous sports with the milkmaids are set forth at great length, but the word Abhira is not once met with.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

But he did not lose heart, and remembering, from the cowherd's tales, that people who cannot pay for their passage must either work it out or hide themselves on board ship, he took the easier alternative, and got on to the first vessel which had

Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various

Moved by similar enthusiasm, the cowherd took the pledge also, and if he didn't keep it, he certainly drank less, chiefly owing to the vigilant oversight of the farm-bailiff, who now exercised his natural severity almost exclusively in the denunciation of all liquors whatsoever, from the cowherd's whiskey to Thomasina's elder-flower wine.

Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various

Here, King Alfred, while the Danes sought him far and wide, was left alone one day, by the cowherd's wife, to watch some cakes which she put to bake upon the hearth.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester

King Alfred, in a rude disguise, was resting in the cowherd's cot; the cowherd's wife was baking pies, and had her oven smoking hot.

Rippling Rhymes Walt Mason

"What!" said the cowherd's wife, who scolded him well when she came back, and little thought she was scolding the king, "you will be ready enough to eat them by and by, and yet you cannot watch them, idle dog?"

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester

And the bull's cowherd would not allow them [1] to carry off [1] the Brown Bull of Cualnge, so that they urged on the bull, beating shafts on shields, till they drove him into a narrow gap, and the herd trampled the cowherd's body thirty feet into the ground, so that they made fragments and shreds of his body.

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown