feathers
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Of rural occupations we have the beekeepers, ploughmen, shepherds, neatherds, goatherds, and swineherds.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
For many years Orberosia bestowed her favours upon neatherds and shepherds, whom she thought equal to the gods.
From Penguin Island by France, Anatole
By and by he came to where some neatherds were herding their cattle.
From Tales of the Punjab by Steel, Flora Annie
And was he now to confess, by granting liberty of worship to these neatherds, carders, and peasants, that the rigorous policy of "the Most Christian King" had been an entire mistake?
From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel
He was too proud to confess the truth, of course, and, nodding his head knowingly to the neatherds, said, 'Ta-ta, good people!
From Tales of the Punjab by Steel, Flora Annie
