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
His father, a goatherd, added to his income with railroad construction work.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2022
Gloria Putnam is the goatherd of this motley tribe, and she walks among them, picking mistletoe tangled in an oak to feed the matriarch of the herd, an 11-year-old named Rosie.
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
The sun of spring shone, and she talked with him as merrily as any goatherd lass of his own village.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
