goatherd

Example Sentences

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His companion, Nikolaus, looked blank, as I reeled off the names of the songs: Edelweiss, Climb Every Mountain and The Lonely Goatherd.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2015

He began puppeteering for Bil Baird, who produced and performed the puppetry sequence for The Lonely Goatherd in the film version of The Sound of Music.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2012

We have a distorted version of the Lonely Goatherd and we're cutting the strings.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2010

And it's fun -- though a bit disturbing -- to realize how much space in one's brain has been devoted to remembering every single word of, say, "The Lonely Goatherd."

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2010

They called him Goatherd, of course, because he was Gontish, but they did not go further than that.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin