In a few minutes the necessary materials for a letter, all of the rudest kind, were supplied, and the landlord and drovershovered around as Gilbert began to write, assisting him with the most extraordinary suggestions.
The door was carefully barred, and then Sandy Flash, throwing off a heavy overcoat, such as the drovers were accustomed to wear, sat down by the fire.
God's blessing be on every beast under your care," I said, repeating the words which my mother always said to the drovers which she met.
They meant no disrespect for their children, but their words put me in mind of the manner of speaking of droverswho sell bullocks at the harvest-fair of Greenanore.
May I get a job shoein' geese and drivin' swine to clover if this is not the greatest day of my life!
Slow and easy goes far in a day," he added, and fell asleep again.
After he was better, he told me that he was one of six drovers who had been bringing a herd of three hundred cattle from Missouri to Fort Snelling.
The Indians killed a cow and when the drovers remonstrated, they killed one of them and stampeded the cattle.
Some droversstayed near us with a large drove of cattle in '45 or '46.
The corral of the Cottage, where the drovers stopped, was large enough to hold two hundred horses, with comfortable space for roping, and the snubbing post was grooved with the wear of many ropes.
There was talk of other cow towns, east of Ellisville, west of it, but the clannish conservatism of the drovers held to the town they had chosen and baptized.
At night the drovers usually sleep along with their cattle, let the weather be what it will; and many of these hardy men do not once rest under a roof during a journey on foot from Lochaber to Lincolnshire.
The profusion of this supper staggered the novices, but the drovers attacked it as if such cooking were a common occurrence and did justice to the weary labors of Mrs. Egger.
By big lagoons where wildfowl play and crested pigeons flock, By camp fires where the droversride around their restless stock, And past the teamster toiling down to fetch the wool away My letter chases Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh.
Crimes were committed, sheep filched, and drovers robbed and beaten; most of which offences had a moorland burial, and were never heard of in the courts of justice.
Many drovers halted only a day or two, and turned westward looking for ranges on which to winter their herds.
Meanwhile I renewed old acquaintances among drovers and dealers, Major Mabry among the former.
The drovers were alarmed for the man's welfare; it was impossible to hold the herd longer, so the young fellow volunteered to make the ride alone.
The drovers encouraged all the men employed to bring along their firearms, and when we were ready to start the camp looked like an arsenal.
Several other Texas drovers besides myself had submitted bids; but they stood no show--I had been furnished the figures of every competitor.
Nearly all the Texas drovers had gone home, but, luckily for me, Jim Daugherty had an outfit yet at Wichita and invited me to his wagon.
The Texas drovers formed a social club and rented and furnished quarters, which immediately became the rendezvous of the wayfaring mavericks.
The elder Edwards was very anxious to sell his beef-cattle and a surplus of cow-horses, and we were commissioned to offer them to the drovers at prevailing prices.
We spent a week at the capital city and met all the trail drovers living there, many of whom expected to put up herds for that year southeast on the Colorado River.
Trail drovers were standing aloof, afraid of the upper markets, and I could have easily bought double my requirements without leaving the ranch.
Rival towns were competing for the trail business, wintered cattle were lower, and a perfect chaos existed as to future prices, drovers bolstering and pretended buyers depressing them.
The drovers were anxious to cross the river that afternoon, and a final effort was made to rescue the two steers.
When in the district, drovers from Lochaber, Badenoch, and all parts of the Highlands find their way to this noted Ceilidh house.
Three men came in, two of them well-known drovers or cattle buyers who had visited the house on previous occasions, the other a gentleman who had, some time previously, arrived and taken up his quarters in the district.
In a short time the mingled and familiar cries of the drovers and their charge roused the first stock-man in his hut, who rushed out in great joy to welcome the return of the expedition.
Another night she fell in with some shaggy drovers leading cattle from March into Waisford, and shared the cloak and pillow of one of them without a quiver.
The Queensland drovers looked on amazed, sitting their patient leg-weary horses they had ridden almost continuously for eight months.
The tolls chargeable upon these new and firm roads furnished a very powerful motive for drovers and pack-riders to use an alternative route where such charges would not fall upon them.
Finally every one was ready to mount, and then we and the drovers exchanged polite farewells and parted, seller and buyer each confident that he knew more about the cash for that cheque than the other.
No doubt the day came when those drovers ceased to marvel at the Maluka's simple trust.
The papers having been thus proved satisfactory, the drovers started their boys with the bullocks, before giving their attention to the packing up of their camp baggage, and we turned to our own affairs.
Slave drovers often come to de June place, just lak mule drovers and hog drovers.
Hilary while he advanced on the defiantly retreating Maxime; but as he spoke a new cry of the drovers turned his glance another way.
Evidently the drovers had turned their horses loose, knowing they would go to their stable.
This was the great resort and stopping place for the farmers and drovers who brought in cattle for the city market and where they were met by the butchers who purchased their stock.
This had been a well known tavern from a period long before the Revolution, much frequented by drovers and butchers as well as travelers.
A herd of cattle came through the sheds and stumbled in a startled, stupid fashion on to the lower decks, while the drovers thwacked them and shouted at them.
They could hear the noise of the machinery as the cargo was lowered from the quay into the hold, and now and then, the squealing of pigs as the drovers pushed them up the gangways.
So Jim rode back to the drovers' camp with the beer, and when he came back to me he said that the drovers seemed surprised, but they drank good luck to him.
Just the other side of Mulgatown, near the border, we came on a big mob of cattle in a paddock, and a party of droverscamped on the creek.
It continued to be the headquarters of drovers and stockmen.
It was frequented by drovers and butchers, and was the most popular tavern of its kind in the city for many years.
But what was his astonishment when, on arriving at Neustadt, the drovers saluted their employer, who was looking out of the window of the inn, and he recognised him as Florian!
Ivo joined the drovers and asked where they were going.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drovers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
