Sometimes, in winding through the narrow valleys, he is startled by a hoarse bellowing, and beholds above him on some green fold of the mountain a herd of fierce Andalusian bulls, destined for the combat of the arena.
Just then I felt the ground tremble, and a dozen of the herd galloped towards me with their heads down.
We wandered about in the Jungle, and when we Babe Elephants were tired, the whole herd waited until we had rested and fed.
I soon got to know that the herd was very proud of me.
As the Herd fed in a little valley, we saw three Wild Horses coming toward us--we thought they were Wild Horses, but it was an evil trick of the Palefaces, for beside each Horse walked one of the Men.
Why, it has been known in my Herd for a Bull to be struck fifteen times by one of these fire-sticks, and then the Men did not get him.
I know not which of us turned in his gallop, but certain it is that the herd passed on either side of the Man and he was not hurt.
It was late in the evening before the herd gathered again, and we traveled far, fearing the evil of the Men-kind.
At last the White Man came to a herd of Musk-Ox; but what think you of the temper Black Wolf had when he saw that the Men-kind were not for making a big Kill at all; just the matter of a Head or two to take back with them.
Why, the Herd Men, Pathans they were called, which I think means the greatest of all thieves, were as wary as Jungle Dwellers.
War is the result of the action of the herd instinct in man upon the old instinct of aggression.
The herd instinct, for example, gives instinctive quality to the social organization and social proclivities of three different types of society, which appear as national characters.
Trotter maintains that in man there are four instincts and no more: self-preservative, reproductive nutritional, and herd instincts.
This herd instinct is a tendency, so to speak, which can confer instinctive sanction upon any other part of the field of action or belief.
War is a result of the action of a herd instinct, a specific instinct which is peculiar in one respect, in that it acts upon other instincts but has no definite motor reactions of its own.
But just in this way the human group ceases to be a herdand to be dominated by herd instincts.
But we do not seem to find any general social instinct, or any specific herd instinct or any definite and broadly acting protective and aggressive instincts.
Trotter (82) and also Murray (90) consider war from a biological standpoint, regarding it as a herd phenomenon.
Just like someherd that's been driven here, in order to be gay on purpose!
That he was not one of his own herd really meant nothing.
The Spaniards, who watched all their motions, gathered a greatherd of cows, and set two or three men to keep them.
The next morning they were rejoiced to see a herd of nine musk-oxen feeding close by, all of which were killed.
How any one's being put into a mixed herd of unruly boys, and there learning to wrangle at Trap or rook at Span-Farthing fits him for civil conversation or business, I do not see.
A herd of cows left to themselves fall naturally into single file, and a hundred or more hoofs are not long in smoothing and compacting almost any surface.
Sometimes a cow or two will be missing when the herd is brought home at night; then to hunt them up is another adventure.
Then there is the annual sheep-washing, when on a warm day in May or early June the whole herd is driven a mile or more to a suitable pool in the creek, and one by one doused and washed and rinsed in the water.
It did not seem to be an assault with intent to kill, but was perhaps a stratagem resorted to in order to separate the herd and expose the lambs, which hugged the cattle very closely.
It is a dairy country, and on every farm is found a large herdof cows; but the milk goes to the creameries.
Now at some distance from them a vast herd of swine were feeding.
If Thou drivest us out," they said, "send us into the herd of swine.
Then they came out from the men and went into the swine, whereupon the entire herd instantly rushed down the cliff into the Lake and perished in the water.
The Afghans had triumphed over us so long with impunity that they now believed the Feringhees had sunk into hopeless cowardice, and had become as patient of injury and insult as a herd of broken-spirited slaves.
I am reminded of a herd of an estimated 70 deer that I jumped on a steep mountainside in southern Utah.
Nevertheless, the herd dwindled, and by 1890 was nearly extinct.
The nimrod, intent on a fine trophy head, takes the buck in the prime of life, a time when he should be sireing the herd of the future.
Another function of the mountain lion-deer relationship is to weed out the diseased and inferior individuals so that the deer herd will remain healthy and up to good physical standards.
In the common gaol, heavily chained, under the same roof with the herd of common prisoners, all they were allowed was a curtain across one corner, behind which they sat.
At the same time, they had originally declined my offer of a large herd of cattle that would have been worth a hundred elephants.
Game was very scarce, but we at length came upon a fine herd of tetel (Antelope Babalis).
The sight of so large a herd without protection might have excited their cupidity.
I sent off 140 loads in charge of Morgian Agha, with an escort of twenty soldiers, and the herd of cattle.
I went to visit them, as though simply strolling for my amusement; the dung of cattle was fresh, showing that the zareebas had been occupied during the past night, but the herd had evidently been driven far away.
Wat-el-Mek, who had accompanied me from Fatiko, returned with reinforcements and a herd of cattle to his district.
Wat-el-Mek had made a razzia with a very powerful force, collected from all the stations of Abou Saood, and he had succeeded in capturing an enormous number of these fine animals, together with a large herd of donkeys.
I fully expected a difficulty with the natives when we should attempt to drive the herd of strange cattle through the jungle path to Gondokoro.
With skilful management the herd was secured within the kraal, with the exception of the two undisciplined cows, which started off at full speed along the plain, followed by Abd-el-Kader and myself.
A herdof cattle generally depends upon a few of its members, which are usually followed by the others.
My herd of cattle had been reduced to seventy, and I much doubted the possibility of driving them in a high grass country, as they would scatter and make a stampede should we be attacked; they would be scared by the guns.
It is easy to say "a herd of 3,000 zebras;" but no mere words can give an adequate impression of the actual army of stripes and bars, and hoofs thundering in review over a grassy plain.
The writer has gone so far as to suggest the desirability of starting a new herd of David's deer, at some point far distant from England, as an insurance measure against the possibility of calamity at Woburn.
On another occasion, it is recorded that the prong-horned antelope herd of the Mammoth Hot Springs wandered across the line into Gardiner, and quickly met a savage attack of gunners with rifles.
Even counting out the losses by the rifle and by accidental death, the herd to-day numbers more than one hundred head.
Most unexpectedly, in 1886 American zoologists were startled by the discovery of a small herd on the Triangle Islands, in the Caribbean Sea, near Yucatan, by Mr. Henry L.
In 1911 the Boone and Crockett Club provided a fund which defrayed the expenses of shipping from the Yellowstone Park a small nucleus herdto each of those ranges.
As I sat on my horse, viewing with amazement this wonderful panorama of wild life, I was startled by a herd that came galloping around a small hill just behind me.
Mr. Frank Rush was appointed Warden of the new National Bison Range, and his management has been so successful that only two of the bison died of the fever, the disease has been stamped out, and the herd now contains thirty-nine head.
The prong-horned antelope herd is so tame that it is difficult to keep it out of the streets of Gardiner, on the Montana side of the line.
I prey to God, yeve him good chaunce, As ye han herd of thise ryotoures three.
Had lete me knowen / and began to wryte[66] Lyke as ye haue herd me endyte Wherfor to studye and rede alway[67] I purpose to doo day by day Thus in dremyng and in game Endeth thys lytyl book of Fame.
To seen that flour, as ye han herd devyse, Tho gan I loken endelong the mede, (B.
Me mette how I was in the medew tho, *And that I romed in that same gyse, 105 To seen that flour, as ye han herd devyse.
She waketh, walweth, maketh many a brayd, As doon thise loveres, as I have herd sayd.
And shortly of this matere for to make, (251) This Theseus of her hath leve y-take, And every point performed was in dede As ye have in this covenant herd me rede.
And ther-out com so greet a noise, That, had hit stonden upon Oise, Men mighte hit han herd esely To Rome, I trowe sikerly.
Unbounded wealth is at my command—a crouching herd at my feet, because I am the master of the yellow dross for which mankind will barter Heaven!
In a primitive civilization engaged in pastoral pursuits where the herd is the important source of food supply the ceremony centers about the dairy and the herd.
In Southern India, among the Toda tribes,[27] where the buffalo herd is sacred, this is quite apparent.
On the Pampas of South America you may see a boy seven years old on horseback, driving a herd of horses, and carrying a baby in his arms!
When the word was given, the first step was to drive a herd into the lowest corner of the field in as compact a mass as possible.
Go to the pasture and walk around the whole herd quietly, and at such a distance as not to cause them to scare and run.
A herdhappened to be on their way across the river.
The advance party were so fortunate as to overtake a herd of elk, two of which they killed; what they did not eat they left secured for the other party with the canoes.
Thus dressed, he fixes himself at a convenient distance between a herd of buffalo and any of the river precipices, which sometimes extend for some miles.
Our hunters brought us ten deer, and we shot two out of a herd of buffalo that came to water at Sulphur Spring.
He soon met a herd of at least a thousand buffalo, and, being desirous of providing for supper, shot one of them.
At this place they discovered a large herd of elk, and after pursuing them for three miles over bad swamps and small ponds, killed one of them.
The game to-day consisted of four deer; though we also saw a herd of ibex, or bighorn.
Sometimes the wolves would pounce upon a calf, too young and feeble to trot with the other buffalo; and although the mother made an effort to save her calf, the creature was left to the hungry wolves, the herd moving along without delay.
For your folk know no more of fighting, though they are brave enough, than a herd of cattle.
And so we went slowly, with the herd of raided cattle before us, with a silence which made me wonder.
He was the only one which had been seen, though it was said that another had escaped at the first, and the kine of the herd had been suffered to go free.
What a variety of individualities a herd of cows presents when you have come to know them all, not only in form and color, but in manners and disposition.
Every herd has its ringleader, its unruly spirit--one that plans all the mischief and leads the rest through the fences into the grain or into the orchard.
Then there is that peculiar frenzied bawl she utters on smelling blood, which causes every member of the herd to lift its head and hasten to the spot--the native cry of the clan.
But she is not to be trifled with; her will is law; the whole herd give way before her, those that have crossed horns with her, and those that have not, but yielded their allegiance without crossing.
When the herd were foddered from the stack or barn, or fed with pumpkins in the fall, she was always first served.
The justification of establishing this close season depends, under the terms of the convention, upon how far, if at all, it is necessary for protecting and preserving the American fur-seal herd and for increasing its number.
This is a question requiring examination of the present condition of the herd and the treatment which it needs in the light of actual experience and scientific investigation.
Such a herd as that on the Flat-head Reservation should not be allowed to go out of existence.
For the ploughing carle and the straying herd Flee never for Sir Rafe: No barefoot maiden wends afeard, And she deems the thicket safe.
Full many a herd of long-horned neat Have I seen 'twixt water-side and wheat.
There is a numerous herd of little negroes about the estate; and these sometimes afford us a new diversion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "herd" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
