I'm only a poor chap,—my father was a shepherd, and I began life as a cowherd—I don't want any titles of courtesy.
It was nearly morning when we got off the bog, and as the rain was falling we took refuge in a tumble-down hut which had probably been a cowherd's.
The cowherd and I took our flock down the meadows and into the woods where there was fern.
You were a cowherd, as you say—but you educated yourself at a University and got a degree.
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The organic farm keeps a sucklercowherd.
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Their only alternative would be calves from suckling cowherds.
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Most beef cattle are mated naturally, whereby a bull is released into acowherdapproximately six weeks after calving period.
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These cattle are for all practical comparisons, wild and only the cowherds can mingle with them without fear of being attacked.
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The king realising his mistake returned to the spot where he had met the cowherds, and with great faith performed the puja with them.
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The group sarcastically imitates the clumsy movements of thecowherd, who ends his dance in the midst of general laughter.
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When the child was around 7 years old, he started working as acowherd.
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Until 1981, the village even had a full-timecowherd.
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Cattle and sheep are owned by different households but grazed on the common unfenced pasture areas with acowherdand shepherds accompanying them.
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Finally, every man had tried it except thecowherd.
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In the forest, the minister comes across an illiteratecowherdsitting in a tree and cutting down the branch on which he is sitting.
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According to folklore, the temple was constructed by acowherdin the 18th century.
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He is said to have worked as a shepherd,cowherd, clerk, and a book-keeper.
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The cowherds capture him and keep him for a year, until he makes a prophecy.
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These cattle are reared in huge herds numbering in hundreds with a few cowherds tending to them.
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