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

Putnam, 46, did not set out to be a goatherd.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2018

I was leaving, the goatherd said that he thought that the herd had accepted me into their social group.

From Washington Post • May 25, 2016

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