What is "drovers"

Usage examples of "drovers".

The sleepy little hostelry suddenly took on the ambience of a bordello, a bordello instantly created for the drovers and their money.

When the drovers, or any other travelling men come to town, they want women.

When the drovers fought they used anyway they could to knock down the opponent.

When the animals were secured in the pens on the edge of the town, the drovers had come in looking for whatever good times Wad-Hasa Wells had to offer.

He had only diverted the wrath of the drovers by quickly claiming that he was a fortune-teller, not a gambler.

The town was split, the drovers had the surface and the townspeople, with the exception of some very independent women, had retreated to the safety of their underground dwellings.

The sleepy, hungover drovers found themselves herded at weapon-point into a sullen group near the animal pens.

The drovers come in, they spend their money, get a bit out of hand and find themselves thrown out in the morning.

He made his way to where Shako was standing, bellowing orders and generally turning the hungover drovers into a cohesive working unit.

All it needed was a certain degree of prodding by drovers cruising slowly beside the herd at about a metre from the ground.

Shako constantly keeping a watchful, protective eye on the merchandise, there probably would have been deaths and serious mutilations among the herd, inflicted by the drovers themselves.

The elaihim, with their super-human minds and tall, frail bodies, knew enough to avoid the trails of drovers and the haunts of similar, ignorant, violent humans.

The elaihim were more than just the victims for the drovers cruel sport.

Despite their obvious culture and sensitivity, in the opinion of the drovers, they had to be eradicated, just like ribbon snakes, snow lupes or the big, savage lizards that prowled the deep forest.

Although most drovers had an overbearing fixation about having sons to follow in their footsteps, hardly any managed to maintain and provide for a family.