goatherd
Example Sentences
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An old goatherd imparts sage advice, telling Damien that “time shifts for the grieving. Our bodies change; things don’t quite appear the same anymore.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
Waving our thanks, we start a climb that will lead us into the fragrant wilds of the Mediterranean’s sunny scenery, the steady hum of cicadas interrupted only by the singsong calls of a goatherd.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2019
Putnam, 46, did not set out to be a goatherd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2018
Pleased with the elegance of this solution, he booked a flight to Switzerland, and arranged a rendezvous with a goatherd.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016
“And then,” said Mal, “at every death, the Immortal is born again. They can be born into any family—peasant, politician, prince, goatherd, warrior. They’re the Immortal soul, in a human body.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
