What is "sheepherder"

Usage examples of "sheepherder".

One of the other brides, youngest daughter of the king of some tiny desert land on the southern edge of Xis, had loaned her a beautifully illustrated book of poetry by the famous Bazu Jev Qinnitan had read some of it and enjoyed it very muchhis descriptions of sheepherders in the and mountains who lived so close to the sky they called themselves Cloud People spoke of a freedom and simplicity that seemed achingly attractive to her.

At about this same time too, frogs reappeared in the irrigation ditches, and folks once more heard them singing at night, obviously because the old sheepherder had become so busy stitching miniature clodhoppers for the Sainted Child and otherwise trying to bring back Pendejo that he no longer had time for his nocturnal canine patrol of the waterways.

But the sheepherder merely chucked afl these iridescent artifacts into a great gleaming pile and flailed away some more with his shovel.

Beyond Baldy are the high pastures of the Wood River National Forest, where thousands of sheep graze in the summer, tended by Basque sheepherders from the Pyrenees.

I said something to that effect just before you threw your badge in my face and lit out like a schoolmarm seven unwashed sheepherders were out to screw.

Some sheepherders she knew talked a blue streak to the dogs, the rocks, the porcupines, they sang songs and played the radio, read their magazines out loud, but Delia let the silence settle into her, and, by early summer, she had begun to hear the ticking of the dry grasses as a language she could almost translate.

Mornings, standing with the sheep miles away, she would look for it through the binoculars and think about ways to raise it higher, and she would wonder what was buried under all the other monuments sheepherders had raised in that country.

For a time he had hopes to pass the chore on to the sheepherders, but their flocks were scattered all over.

They just wanted one more day, and then another day, and another, while their teeth loosened and their breath grew foul, and by the time the sheepherders stumbled across their camp, it was too late for Yasmeneh, and pretty close to the same for the others.

Toward evening they came upon a band of sheepherders camped on the far side of a deep arroyo that was floored with round white rocks.

It was a trick I'd learned from an old Mexican sheepherder and mountain man.

If she turned off between those buttes the sheepherders would have their view of her cut off until they passed the buttes, and by that time she could be under cover.