And Sahadeva, too, who was disguised as a cowherdgave milk, curds and clarified butter to his brothers.
I was employed as a cowherd in the service of those bulls of the Kuru race, the sons of Pandu.
Sometimes the cowherd received part of his pay in butter or cheese.
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cowherd Rice, in 1635, agreed to take charge of one hundred cows for three months for ten pounds.
Three shepherds kept their large flock, a cowherd drove their kine and hogs, a horse-keeper looked to their 17 horses.
These hinds, whose work was superintended by the bailiff and cellaress, always included one or two ploughmen, a cowherd and oxherd, a shepherd, probably a carter or two and some general labourers.
A stone image of the Spinning-Maid stood on one shore of the lake, and another of the Cowherd on the opposite shore.
The Cowherd and the Spinning-Girl[19] Lament the doom that bars The meeting of true lovers, Across the Stream of Stars.
On the evening before New Year's Day, it is usual for the cowherd and the young people to meet together, and one of them is covered with a cow's hide.
In the Perthshire Highlands on Midsummer Day the cowherd used to go three times round the fold, according to the course of the sun, with a burning torch in his hand.
Like a cowherd belabouring his cattle in the forest with a goad, Bhagadatta repeatedly smote the Pandava host.
The barrow-boy now came up, and announced that from the look-out tree he had seen the other cowherd coming up at a gallop.
He drew me in his little book, and the cowherd also.
Meanwhile, the cowherd going to the cattle proposed to the Moravian drovers that they should go inside for a change and drink a glass of wine; he would watch the cows.
When the cowherd had finished writing, then the csikos took the pen from his hand, and turning over the bill, inscribed his name on the back, in big roundhand characters.
But not all the bishops and saints nurtured in her school, occupy in the annals of the human mind a place comparable to that held by an old cowherd who lived on the lands belonging to Hilda's community.
It is on the lips of this cowherd that Anglo-Saxon speech first bursts into poetry, and nothing in the whole history of European literature is more original or more religious than this first utterance of the English muse.
So he took the outstretched hand and scrambled out of the pit, and the cowherd gathered apples for him, and other fruits that grew on the tops of trees too high for the wolf to reach.
I am the emperor,' said the stranger, when the boy and the cowherd returned together.
The heart of the cowherd sank as he thought how sorely he and his wife would miss William, but he kept silence.
Many years went by, and William had grown a big boy, and was very useful to the cowherd and his wife.
So by making extraordinary efforts, he got his twopence, and then held a long conversation with the cowherd of a neighbouring farmer.
Seeing the justice of the claim, John Clare, in the fulness of his heart, gave his brother cowherd the sixpence, which the kind bookseller at Stamford had presented him with.
While tending his geese, John came into daily contact with Mary Bains, an ancient lady, filling the dignified post of cowherd of the village, and driving her cattle into the pastures annually from May-day unto Michaelmas.
Clare's occupation on the following morning was to take his master's horses to the pasture, and he offered the cowherd the sum of one penny to look after the horses for him, and one more penny for 'keeping the secret.
It was thus that the admiration of poetry first awoke in Parker Clare's son, roused by the songs of Granny Bains, the cowherd of Helpston.
The bargain was struck, after an animated discussion, in which the conscientious cowherd strove hard to get a total reward of threepence, so as to be able to keep the secret for any length of time.
Fulk of the Forest was turning his horse from the vachery gate, and the cowherd went in and closed it after him.
He mounted his roan horse, galloped bareback to the vachery, and ordered the cowherd to the White Lodge with his women and children.
It was not for Merlin’s eyes to overlook the cowherd or bibulcus in leather jerkin and leggings standing by the vachery gate and talking to a man on a rough roan horse.
The raindrops and the sticks of the cowherd boys fall on their backs with the same unreasonable persistency, and they bear both with equally uncritical resignation, steadily going on with their munch, munch, munch.
Two cowherd lads are grazing their cattle just in front of my boat.
Thy heart, O blackbird, burnt within At the deed of reckless man: Thy nest bereft of young and egg The cowherd deems a trifling tale.
They murdered them, the cowherd lads, All thy children in one day: One the fate to me and thee, My own children live no more.
It seemed not canny there, so he went into the shed and there saw the cowherd lying on his back with his head in one stall and his feet in the other.
Thorhall's cowherd had been a long time in his service and he had become attached to him; for this reason and because he was a careful herdsman he did not want to part with him.
The cowherd gave him to her, and she took him to the tank.
The cowherd gave him for the boy half a pound of gold.
But this time the cowherd had followed Suri, and had seen the wonderful child and all she did to it.
Next, Harchand Maharaja went to a cowherdand sold him his son Manikchand.
Some time had passed, and Manikchand, the Maharaja's son, died; so Hirali Rani went to the cowherd to ask him for her dead child.
He came to a black forest, and there, under the forest by the roadside, a bush was burning; some cowherd had set it on fire.
At their return the landlady makes an entertainment for the cowherdand his associates.
The cowherd goes three times round the fold, according to the course of the sun, with a burning torch in his hand.
A cowherd who was driving cattle home at evening ran to the back of the house where the sick boy lay, after a cow which strayed there.
There was once a cowherd named Sona who saved a few rupees and he decided to buy a calf so as to have something to show for his labours; and he went to a distant village and bought a bull calf and on the way home he was benighted.
At last a miserable, poverty stricken and sickly cowherd was asked; he had always grazed his cattle on the banks of the tank and had often seen the princesses bathing so he knew from what the tree had spring.
One day when Kara was old enough to work as a cowherd his father called him and said "My son, I am now poor but once I was rich.
He asked the cowherd to let him take it away; but the cowherdrefused to do so without a written order from the Raja.
The princess being bound by her oath had to marry the miserable cowherd and go and live with him in his hut.
Once upon a time a cowherd lost a calf and while looking for it he was benighted in the jungle; for he was afraid to go home lest he should be scolded for losing the calf.
After this the former cowherd became only bearably bright, and being recognized as the heir to the kingdom went to live with his wife in the Raja palace.
But about two months afterwards the cowherd suddenly fell down dead: and when they consulted a jan as to the reason he said that it was the witch who had been beaten who had done it.
And there was a boy of the cowherd caste who used to graze his cattle about that place; he saw his goats greedily eating the tobacco leaf and he wondered what the leaf was and tasted a bit but finding it bitter he spat it out.
In the morning the cowherd stood before Hild and told his dream.
But the name which really throws glory over Whitby is the name of a cowherd from whose lips during the reign of Oswiu flowed the first great English song.
As a cowherdwith his staff drives his cows into the stable, so do Age and Death drive the life of men.
The calves and cowherd children come tumbling out and all praise Krishna for saving them.
Krishna the cowherd on the other hand, was spontaneous, irresponsible and free.
Reaching Mathura, Nanda and the cowherds pitch their tents outside the city walls[32] while Krishna with Balarama and the cowherd children go inside the city for a walk.
The same abrupt contrast appears between his character as a cowherdand his character as a prince.
Its remains litter the ground but Krishna is so unmoved that he merely summons the cowherd children to play a game.
Gathered in the wide arena, townspeople from Mathura await the outcome, while cowherd boys delightedly encourage the two heroes.
He is no longer merely the cowherd lover or the hero prince, the central figure of a sacred narrative.
When the cowherd children awake, Krishna shows them the calves.
Concealed as a cowherd in Krishna's party, the demon Pralamba awaits an opportunity of killing Balarama.
The cowherd boys frolic on the path and Krishna in the centre sings his song.
The second role characterizes him both as cowherd and prince but with important differences of attitude and behaviour.
But there can be little doubt that its Brahman authors were in the main more favourably inclined towards the hero prince than towards the cowherd lover.
A cowherd boy mounts a wooden mortar and then, balanced on his shoulders, the young Krishna helps himself to the butter which is kept stored in a pot suspended by strings from the roof.
Very well,' Krishna answers, 'You be the wolf and the cowherd boys the rams.
