sheep-farmers

All th ey saw was that land was being let to sheep-farmers who could pay three times th

Shores of Sutherland 2000

The gold-diggers and the sheep-farmers have thus rediscovered Tierra del Fuego.

The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego 1996

To the present they have had their worst enemies among their own people, but now that sheep-farmers and gold-diggers want their country, they are uniting to fight their common enemy.

The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego 1996

I believe that extraordinary little man filled it up with hyoscine whenever he was called out to give an anæsthetic to someone he did not know, just on the off-chance the patient should turn out to be what I understand sheep-farmers call a ‘cull.’

The Nursing Home Murder Marsh, Ngaio, 1899-1982 1963

Englishmen, and immense tracts, amounting altogether to nearly two millions of acres, have been turned into deer-forests, yielding, as a rule, a slightly higher rent than was paid by the crofters and sheep-farmers.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

The crofters were too poor to undertake the management of the large sheep-farms into which it was apparently most profitable to divide these mountain-lands, and sheep-farmers from the south became the tenants.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

The road from Lewes to the sea runs along the edge of the Ouse levels, just under the bare hills, passing through villages that are little more than homesteads of the sheep-farmers, albeit each has its church -- Iford,

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

James Scott was one of the largest sheep-farmers in Scotland, and one of the greatest buyers of sheep at Inverness.

Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

It had never a great reputation; and I think the sheep-farmers of the Cheviots were disposed to look with distrust upon the teachings of a shepherd who supped with

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

We heard that the few sheep-farmers on the route were much opposed to the influx of diggers, and had publicly notified that they would not encourage or give them any accommodation on their stations.

Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 Robert B. Booth