As the country developed out from Philadelphia, these Germans with others would be taken out in droves of fifty or more by the "soul-drivers," men who would peddle them out to those needing such service.
They were at first without fear and came in droves near to the colonists.
Then the heavy-footed droves rolled away, madly crashing through the timber, until the echo of their hoofs died away in the distance.
He it was who rode ever in the forefront, so that the horsemen on the right and left ‘lead’ could with ease direct their droves in his track.
People came in droves to ask for renewal of their notes, each leaving a tip of several pesetas usually, not to be counted against the debt itself.
They go in great Droves in the Night, to hunt Deer, which they do as well as the best Pack of Hounds.
The droves of cattle in Australia have particular spots to which each group repairs to rest, and from which it never deviates; and so on.
Even now we see that armed men occasionally come together to shoot down Matabeles and to rob them of their droves of cattle, though the Matabeles only want peace and are ready to buy it at a high price.
The path had broadened considerably so that it nearly assumed a road-like width, and we met many droves of llamas followed up by drivers on muleback.
Here are many farmhouses with fields of green oats and with pastures of clover in which feed droves of cattle and swine.
They have made considerable advances in cultivating the soil, and have large droves of horses, and many of them are raising large herds of cattle.
We saw large droves of mountain sheep, or bighorn, and thousands of antelope.
Frey was summoned on this occasion also, and under his treatment the much dejected old drover was restored, and afterward took many droves of cattle over the road to Baltimore.
Wayne" taverns had each extensive stabling, and furnished accommodations for droves and drovers.
And thousands of droves of hogs were driven through to Baltimore, some from Ohio.
He had never in the least desired to own land anddroves of stock, and make deals with ranchmen, deals advantageous to himself.
Fields of oats waved gray and yellow in the afternoon sun; an immense green pasture was divided by a willow-bordered brook, and here were droves of horses, and out on the rolling bare flats were straggling herds of cattle.
There were many haystacks at the villages, and I could see droves of cattle and sheep on the cleared hills.
They trade across the frontier, and own large droves of cattle, horses, and sheep.
There were flocks of sheep, droves of cattle and horses, and stacks of hay and grain; everybody was apparently well fed and the houses were attractive.
They sell sheep, cattle, and horses to the Russians, and frequently accompany the droves to their destination.
Properly they are herdsmen, and keep large droves of cattle, horses, and sheep, the latter being most numerous.
At two or three settlements there was an abundance of hay and grain in stacks, and droves of well fed cattle, that indicated the favorable character of the country.
Not quite satisfied as to the object of the visit, the Karaiyo had collected the whole of their great droves of cattle in the precincts of the hamlet.
Large droves of wild shaggy horses, and clusters of fiery savages were grouped on the plain outside.
Long wagon-trains were sweeping through the city every day, accompanied by hundreds of families, and droves of horses and cattle.
I am filled with a kind of dismay when I see the great stock-yards of Chicago and Cincinnati, through which flow the vast herds and droves of the prairies, marching straight down the throats of Eastern people.
There weredroves of Indians still roaming the plains.
We saw Yankee soldiers come through in droves lak Coxsey's Army.
They would come in droves with blood hounds and hunt for him but dey couldn't catch him for he knowed them woods too well.
It was a common occurrence to see droves of thousands of "razor-back" hogs on their way from Kentucky to the Seaboard States, feeding on nuts and roots by the way.
He counted over two hundred conveyances and three thousand people, driving herds of cattle and droves of hogs before them.
During the first years of his residence there, the buffaloes came in droves of about three hundred each.
In fact, from the quiet of the day and the circumstance of droves of well-dressed persons going to and from the Church and Chapels, I was occasionally deluded, says a correspondent, into the belief of the day being Sunday.
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