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Examples
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The wind lashed our faces and bodies like a cowman's whip, goading us back, but we persevered.
The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003
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The first of a stately procession of beautiful fawn-coloured Jerseys nosed her way out of the gate on the cowman's left.
War Game Price, Anthony 1976
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Even the cat suddenly leapt off a roof onto a cowman's shoulders and sank her claws in his neck, at which he yelled horribly.
Animal Farm Orwell, George, 1903-1950 1971
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Then with a terrific yank the horseman snapped in the slack, the cowman's feet flew from under him, and with one foot taut in the air, caught at the ankle, he lay cursing and shaking an impotent fist.
The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs
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Take a cowman's advice, go and marry you a true and lovely little wife,
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Ann coiled it, and although it did not have the "feel" of the fine hemp, or the good hair rope that is part of the cowman's equipment, her hands and arm tingled to lassoo some active, running object.
Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box Alice B. Emerson
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When apprised of what had happened, the cowman's face went as dark with anger as that of his foreman.
The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925
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At table Larkin for the first time met Mrs. Bissell, who proved to be a typical early cowman's wife, thin, overworked, and slightly vinegary of disposition, despite the fact that she had at one time in her life been the belle of a cowtown, and had been won from beneath the ready. 45's of a number of rivals.
The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925
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The other noted the hand that rested lightly upon the cowman's hip near the ivory butt of the six-gun that protruded from its holster, and took no offence.
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To begin with she had to face that impertinent upstart of a Nell Raddish, all tricked out in a black dress and white apron and cap and collar and cuffs, and she only a cowman's daughter with a face like a plum, and no sense or notions at all till she came to
Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921
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