I always meant to send him a couple of thousand florins, with a letter saying: 'The goatherd sends you this for the hundred cuffs you owe him, for all the good you have done him, and for your faithful care of him.
He treated me cruelly in my youth, and fixed the nickname ofgoatherd on me.
The goatherd Melanthius, him whom Odysseus and Eumæus had met on the road the day before, also came, bringing the best goats of his flock to be killed for the wooers' feast.
But in the end he hardened his heart to endure the insult, and let the goatherd go on his way.
Probably a Spaniard, since he wears the dress of a Spanish goatherd and seems at home in the Sierra Nevada, but very like a Scotchman for all that.
The goatherd would have run away if he hadn't been held fast, and there were questions as to who would enter.
And the goatherd said: look between yon great rocks, for it was between them he passed out of my sight.
A goatherd coming from the hills has seen him enter a cave and as soon as he has folded his goats he will lead us to it.
The goatherd leads the eldest of the flock, and the rest follow in docile order and stop as he stops to ask at the doors if milk is wanted.
On it once strange things happened for a goatherd Lamo found a fine baby boy being nursed by a she-goat.
He confided this to the goatherd Lampon begging for his aid.
The noble goatherd husband of Anthia finds his prototype in Electra's peasant husband in Euripides' play.
They beat up Daphnis in a fight with the peasants in which they too were wounded and prosecuted him in court, but Philetas was the presiding judge and acquitted the goatherd of any wrong.
Lamo told them the story of the invention of Pan's pipes which a Sicilian goatherd had sung to him.
How should a goatherd that could have been mistress of a king, how should she write to an old queen from very far away; from over the sea?
Curious story to happen to a goatherd living all her days out under God’s eye, as my uncle the Cura might have said.
I wanted to spare her feelings, just as I would have been anxious to save from any contact with mud the feet of thatgoatherd of the mountains with a symbolic face.
She stepped forward on her bare feet as firm on that floor which seemed to heave up and down before my eyes as she had ever been—goatherd child leaping on the rocks of her native hills which she was never to see again.
The hero of the Odyssey, when his opportunity arrives, sets no limit to the vengeance which he exacts, from prince, goatherd and maidservant.
The goatherd gave the goat which he held by the horns a couple of slaps on the back, saying, "Lie down here beside me, Spotty, for we have time enough to return to our fold.
It is what we shall all do," said the canon; and then begged the goatherd to begin the promised tale.
Good-day, sir," said Pilarica, who knew no reason why one should not be as polite to a goatherd as to a grandee.
The goatherd was devouring a piece of black bread which he dipped, between bites, into a cow's-horn half full of olive oil.
He would not have suborned a goatherd like himself at the threshold of his cabin to profane his humble happiness!
I not the wife of some poor mountain goatherd of innocent and simple habits?
As I was thinking over this and watching the people, we passed a little goatherd who had evidently been out on the hills many days "on duty.
Comatas was a goatherd who devoutly served the Muses, and sacrificed to them his masters goats.
That goatherd yonder, he will do, if we call him hither, the man for whom that dog, a black hound with a white patch, is barking among the kids.
So sang the lads; and the goatherd thus bespoke them, 'Sweet is thy mouth, O Daphnis, and delectable thy song!
Ye cicalas, see how I make the goatherd chafe: even so, methinks, do ye vex the reapers.
Galatea is pelting thy flock with apples, Polyphemus, she says the goatherd is a laggard lover!
Clearista, too, pelts the goatherd with apples as he drives past his she-goats, and a sweet word she murmurs.
Then the boys called aloud, and the goatherd gave ear, and came, and the boys began to sing, and the goatherd was willing to be their umpire.
Life seems to accost him with the glance of the goatherd Lycidas, 'and still he smiled as he spoke, with laughing eyes, and laughter dwelling on his lips.
Failing to move Amaryllis, the goatherd threatens to die where he has thrown himself down, beneath the trees.
Lycidas was his name, a goatherd was he, nor could any that saw him have taken him for other than he was, for all about him bespoke the goatherd.
Melanthius was the treacherous goatherd put to a cruel death by Odysseus.
And then the goatherd moved out from the shade and went over to the edge of the plateau, and two of the goats that were feeding there thrust their noses into his hand, and rubbed themselves against his legs.
The goatherd answered that if he remained in the neighborhood long enough he could not help meeting him; but as to his mood, he could not answer for that.
Scarcely had Don Quixote heard that he was being taken for a madman by the goatherd than he flew at him in a raging fit.
Sancho and the goatherd gave the youth something to appease his hunger; and he ate it ravenously.
The goatherd began his story, after having told the goat to lie down beside him.
The goatherd accepted the invitation; and when they had finished the repast, they had found that he was by no means a fool.
Don Quixote immediately began to ask about the strange half-naked man he had seen, and the goatherd told what he knew of him and the mystery of the knapsack.
Finally Don Quixote stumbled, and the goatherd managed to get him on his back, while Sancho was held off by one of the canon's servants, moaning all the while because he could not go to his master's rescue.
The goat seemed to understand everything, and the canon was so impressed with the scene that he asked the goatherd not to be in a hurry, but to sit down and eat with them.
After the curate had taken leave of the canon, the goatherd and those in the procession, he paid off the officers, who considered it unwise to accompany the party any further.
While they thus debated, Eumæus saw the goatherd making his way out of the hall again by the same exit.
Such a goatherd is that same Juon whom your ladyship has learnt to know.
Hitherto the goatherd and his wife feared nothing.
At such times the goatherdencamps on the summit of the mountains and nourishes his kids by felling with his axe a growing beech-tree, on which the little creatures fall and gnaw off the juicy buds.
And the goatherd said this with as much self-evident pride, as if everyone in the wide world had heard that strong Juon dwelt among these forests.
This wonderously beautiful maiden loved the poor goatherd Juon, who possessed nothing in the world but his sheepskin pelisse and his alpenstock; him she loved and him alone.
I seemed immediately to stand among the chorus of pilgrims filing past the goatherd in the valley; but I could not afterwards recall the goatherd's tune, so I was obliged to help myself out of the matter in the usual way.
One day, when climbing the Wostrai, I was astonished, on turning the corner of a valley, to hear a merry dance tune whistled by a goatherd perched up on a crag.
The goatherd stood staring at the party with open mouth, and gave little heed to him.
It would seem that my cry in the night, my exultant cry to Satan that I had defeated him, had been overheard by a goatherd who guarded his flock in the hills.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goatherd" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
