The women and children, goats and cattle, camels and asses, had all been removed into the wilderness for refuge, while their crops of corn had been left standing for the plunderers, who would be too idle to reap and thrash the grain.
Yes, I'll just step down to them now and tell the rascals that if they will bring me somegoats by this evening and some corn to-morrow morning I will give them in four or five days just one shower.
Where once stood the wide streets of Mykene, we meet only the shepherd with his crook to guide his flock, or the peasant woman, with Paionian industry, plying her distaff as she gathers her sheep or her goats to watering.
The shepherdesses are there with their goats among the ruins, and a draught of their milk in the Greek May is a refreshment not to be scorned.
Everything gave promise of establishing a thriving town; wagons were winding down the green slopes of the western hills, and fine herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and goats were passing through on their way to fresh pasture-lands.
The gates of the kraals were thrown open, and sheep and goats and oxen were blending their voices with the incessant, uneasy chorus of the dogs, while the herds divided the multitude to lead them to their separate pastures.
All the bright morning the sailors made the wood ring with happy laughter as they speared the goats for a feast.
In the leafy wood the wild goats leapt under the wild vine trees like Pan at play, as fearless of the intruders as if they had never seen men before.
Although wild they seemed to lack the vitality that tame goats possess.
Lackey on a big speculation which was to capture all the wild goats they could on Catalina Island, and take them to San Francisco for slaughtering.
The goats were easily captured and taken on board the schooner, and thence to shore but many were drowned in the transit, and when driven to San Francisco the dead were scattered all along the route.
The first is the lower part of a slab, complete on three sides with a plain surface down the middle, and columns of goats in squares just like that described above, on either side, the goat facing inwards.
Goats had been kept on the roof, and hence the fleas.
Huge fig-trees grow in these crevices, and dragon's-blood trees, and large herds of cows and goats revel in the rich carpet of grass which covers the flat surface of the plateau.
The goats look to the right, and there are some cuttings which may have been part of an inscription on the surface of the stone to the right of the column of goats.
Then there are the Driat peaks, the Adouna peaks, and many others piercing the sky like needles, around which wild goats and civet cats roam, but no other big game.
The closest intimacy exists between a Bedou and his goats and his cows; the animals understand and obey certain calls with absolute accuracy, and you generally see a Sokotran shepherdess walking before her flock, and not after it.
My fragment has two complete goats and parts of another above as well as below.
Great greetings took place, and our men carried off two goats for an evening feast.
Owing to the scarcity of water in the south-western corner of the island we were advised not to visit it; the wells were represented to us as dry, and the sheep as dying, though the goats still managed to keep plump and well-looking.
In neither of these cases can one know how many goats were originally represented.
Chickens and cows roamed at will and here and there goats would clamber over walls and roofs.
Old "One-Armed-Juan" Esquejeda told of having goats taken from his place almost in the center of town and about the same time Willie Fletcher and some of his pals went swimming in a pool formed by a dam in Arroya Rico.
In one of the sheds as we ascended, found four goats chewing the cud, a little boy attending, all on the bench.
Our goats and shorthorns ate the thatch of the houses, and we, ere the end, ate the goats and the shorthorns.
Came the day when I moved my goats on to other brush-impregnable hillsides, with following in their wake my cattle, pasturing knee-deep in the succulent grasses that grew where before had been only brush.
My alfalfa meadows, my efficient Jersey cattle, my upland pastures, my brush-covered slopes melting into tilled fields, while ever higher up the slopes my angora goats eat away brush to tillage!
Came the day when the men with axes chopped down all the taller brush so as to give the goats access to the leaves and buds and bark.
How I can see them now just as when the goats were first introduced.
A thousand goats and a hundred fat oxen in a coat to keep you warm.
These supplied refuge at night and in storm, to the goats browsing on Alpine moss and grasses.
As the goats turned into the Via del Babuino, the faint tinkle of their bells was blent with the happy laugh of a young contadina.
It was half-past eight on the day of which I speak, and the shops were not yet open; the Piazza deserted but for a flock of goats and the attendant contadini who milked them from one door to another for their customers.
Three or four cows and twice as many goats were driven into the enclosure at five o’clock and tethered at the door of a rustic pavilion.
Five goats and a new sleeping mat are scarce enough in exchange for Bukawai's medicine.
He knew that his mother had no ten fat goats to give and that when Bukawai returned, little Tibo would be killed and eaten.
I come for the goats and the sleeping mat and the piece of copper wire the length of a tall man's arm from the shoulder to the tips of his fingers.
He stuck for the fivegoats and the sleeping mat for a matter of half an hour, while the hyenas sniffed and growled and laughed hideously.
Mbonga would never let her have them, and Tibo knew that his father never had owned more than threegoats at the same time in all his life.
The medicine he made was not good medicine, for though Momaya paid him two goats for it, it did not bring back Tibo, nor even indicate where she might search for him with reasonable assurance of finding him.
The putrid old man would kill him and eat him, for thegoats would never be forthcoming.
I will make no medicine," he said, "until I have the goats and the mat and the copper wire.
He was planning upon compelling them to drive the ten goats to the mouth of his cave when Momaya returned.
His medicine was very expensive and he would have to give at least five goats to the gods who helped him make it.
How she could get three goats and a sleeping mat out of the village and through the jungle to the cave of Bukawai, she did not know, but that she would do it somehow she was quite positive--she would do it or die.
There was the price to be considered, and Mbonga had no intention of parting lightly with ten goats to obtain the return of a single little boy who might die of smallpox long before he reached a warrior's estate.
Two goats are enough," said Momaya, for the spirit of barter is strong in the breasts of the blacks.
That's very plain," said Sancho; "of course there must be a difference between the goats of heaven and the goats of the earth.
My powder beginning to fail, made me examine after what manner I should kill the goats or birds to live on after it was all gone.
Immediately our pinnace returned from the shore, and brought abundance of cry-fish, with a man clothed in goats skins, who looked wilder than the first owners of them.
I likewise increased my flocks of goats by shooting the wild dams and bringing home their kids to my inclosure.
Indeed had it been ten miles, I had time enough to do it in; but then I did not consider that my goats would be as wild in so much compass, as if they had had the whole island, and consequently as difficult for me to catch them.
Hence the song transfers the goats to Gilead, where there still existed grazing-places.
As goats pursue the clover, wolves the goat, And cranes the ploughman, upon thee I dote!
They bring these victuals and diuers sorts of marchandises vpon rafts, borne vpon goats skins blowenvp full of wind in maner of bladders.
And when they haue discharged their goods, they sel the rafts for fire, and let the wind out of their goats skins, and cary them home againe vpon their asses by land, to make other voyages downe the riuer.
At the end of long fights, chases, and efforts, the goats were finally subdued by the girls, and were now gathered in one group.
The goats were stubborn, and wished to remain on the meadow, so there was some fighting, in which the goats were victorious over the children.
The young man had to bend his head in order to enter the low doorway leading into the dark entrance where two goats were dimly visible, thence to the room where the air, in spite of the open window, felt heavy and oppressive.
A little later they came into view of a flock of goats browsing near a wood, and Azariah sought to improve the occasion by a little dissertation on the destructive nature of the goat.
But sheep and goats never miss their footing, a brother answered.
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 goats follow you about and are friends with you.
And there are goats and parrots you can tame so that they sit on your shoulder and talk to you.
Do the goats sit on your shoulder and talk to you?
The goats were enclosed for the night in a brush corral near by.
With her lived a father or grandfather, a lineal Aztec, somewhat less than a thousand years old, who herded a hundred goatsand lived in a continuous drunken dream from drinking mescal [66].
At last he bethought him of a Giant who lived on a rocky island with only a flock of goats for his possessions.
Remember that she must be brought in when the goatsare going into their shelter at sunset.
Crom Duv swore by his flock of goats he would guard the Fairy Rowan Tree until the red berries ceased to come on its branches.
And one year a heifer came and fed with his flock of goats and another year a bullock came.
She grazes with my goatsbut none of my gillies can bring her into my goat-house.
Then he put them and his flock of goats into his big boat and rowed them over to Ireland.
Here is your first task--run down Whitefoot the Fawn and bring her with my goats into the goat-shelter this evening.
So Finn sent some of the Fianna to the Giant and they found him living on a bare rock of an island with only a flock of goatsfor his possessions.
Away from the goats was a fawn with white feet and little bright horns.
When 'he came within the domain of the Enchanter of the Black Back-Lands he saw the goats going quickly before him.
He saw the Enchanter of the Black Back-Lands waiting at the goat-house, now counting the goats that came along and now looking at the sun.
It was a hollow edged with rocks, and round that hollow were scattered the horns of the deer and goats that the Eagle-Emperor had carried off.
A couple of goats were tied at the far end of the pen as a bait, and were kept there constantly, food being taken to them by a convict coolie.
After the trap had been set for some time, the coolie who fed the goats came running to the house one day with the news that a tiger was caught in the trap.
Field notes indicate that both mountain goats and mountain sheep are frequently taken by natives in the Liard River area.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
