sheep-walk

The reason why we needed a guide at all was to secure the convenience of a path, which, though generally no better than a sheep-walk, is much easier than going straight in one direction, through tangled forests and tropical vegetation.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

The slightly undulating sheep-walk dips suddenly into a wide glen, in the lap of which, by a bright, winding rill, rise from the sward the ruins of

Uncle Silas 2003

Thus we reached the stile at the sheep-walk, and then I paused.

Uncle Silas 2003

Riding in the Campagna I had come upon his sheep-walk, and for some time observed his repetition of lessons learned from man, now useless, though unforgotten.

The Last Man 2003

A few days after this little interview with Meg, as Milly and I were walking briskly — for it was a clear frosty day — along the pleasant slopes of the sheep-walk, we were overtaken by Dudley Ruthyn.

Uncle Silas 2003

“Wind away over high and low like the sheep-walk on the mountain side, if you can!”

Armadale 2003

The moor makes an excellent sheep-walk, but attempts to cultivate it have not prospered.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

At certain times of the year she visited the sheep-walk daily, but she never went to the mountain without her knitting needles, and when looking after the sheep she was always knitting stockings, and she was so clever with her needles that she could knit as she walked along.

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen

Underground habitations of the British period were found about forty years ago and ancient trackways of prehistoric time were to be seen in those days when the island was merely a great sheep-walk and before gunpowder and chisel obliterated them.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

After spending half an hour on the spot, we set forth in our dogcart over the downs for Wilton, C. not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors, for keeping these broad plains a wretched sheep-walk, when so many thousands of English men were hungry and wanted labor.

XVI. English Traits. Stonehenge 1909