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  • Soon the official path veered steeply away from the sea and coastline, uphill through fields of wind-dried cow pats and behind hedges and down a deep and narrow drover's road.

    Margaret Drabble | Trespassing 2011

  • Because it's just plain hard I'll leave that pun dangling to explain exactly why Mommy is wearing an oilskin drover's coat when it's sunny and 80 outside.

    The Post I Ignored for Sixteen Months - SpouseBUZZ 2008

  • Turning, I saw a large, western-hatted man in a drover's coat walking away.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2008

  • He was wearing an Australian drover's coat, and he looked not unlike the Marlboro man.

    Little Girl Blue Cray, David 2002

  • His words snapped like a drover's whip: "Tell General Rodes to move across the old Plank Road, halt when he gets to the old Turnpike, and I will join him there."

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • His words snapped like a drover's whip: "Tell General Rodes to move across the old Plank Road, halt when he gets to the old Turnpike, and I will join him there."

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • I suspect if you went back to the history, it was an old drover's route a hundred years ago, where people drove cattle and pigs and turkeys and things like they did down along the Buncombe turnpike, down the French Broad River.

    Oral History Interview with Stan Hyatt, November 30, 2000. Interview K-0249. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 2000

  • They were from Valles, like the drover's fine daughter ....

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • Rald, the drover's chief guard, was built like an oak stump and looked about as tough.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • He'd been so sure that the drover's interest was in Garric or-Reise, not in a badger for his flock.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

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