Then unto travail-burdened Priam's queen A herdman told the dread doom of her son.
Before him slain lay that most murderous hound Orthros, in furious might like Cerberus His brother-hound: a herdman lay thereby, Eurytion, all bedabbled with his blood.
A most interesting account has been published by Professor Herdman and Mr. Lomas on the floor deposits of the Irish Sea, in which the authors state (p.
Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis as exemplifying the latter view was considered at some length, and the modifications suggested by Professor Brooks, Mr. Galton, and Professor Herdman were indicated.
Professor Herdman found in a rock-pool on the west coast of Scotland "a peculiarly coloured specimen of the common sea-slug (Doris tuberculata).
Brooks in America, to some extent by De Vries on the Continent, by Professor Herdman of Liverpool, and by other biologists.
This passage refers also to the ordinary architecture of the East, the walls of common houses, such as those with which a herdman like Amos would be most familiar, being little more than hurdles covered with mud.
He knows the truth and falsehood of men; he knows their thoughts, and watches them as a herdman his herd.
The herdman reared the boy, but when no longer a child he handed him over to a hunter.
The peasant and the herdmancannot sleep securely with open doors; the traders are not safe in the streets.
But Harpagus, fearing that the daughter of Astyages if she should come to the throne would avenge on him the death of her son, gave the child to the herdman of the king, and bade him expose it.
He related how the wife of the herdman had brought him up, and praised her much, and Spako (the dog) was always on his lips.
The herdman believed that the child belonged to one of the household of Harpagus, and took it, but from the servant who accompanied him out of the city he ascertained that it was the child of Mandane and Cambyses.
Papak, the prince of Fars, sees in a dream the sun illuminating the world from the head of his herdman Sassan.
He was playing with his comrades, in the village in which the herdman lived, in the street, and his playfellows had chosen him whom they considered the herdman's son to be king.
The herdman took his wife's advice, and did as she bade him.
The herdman obeyed, but when his wife heard of the matter, she urged her husband to fetch the child and show it to her.
Wearied by her entreaties, the herdman went back into the forest, and there found a dog beside the child, suckling it, and defending it from the beasts of prey.
When Mr. Herdman came to Stranorlar the people stoned him and his friends.
Herdman tried to get in for East Donegal, a very popular man who pays thirty or forty thousand pounds a year in wages.
Mr. Herdman would have cost them nothing, and might have spent even more than he does at present.
The people of the district speak highly of the Herdman family, who are their greatest benefactors, but they failed to return Mr. E.
The politician who was preferred to Mr. Herdman probably promised to give the people "all they want," while the Unionist was only paying them wages for working all the year round.
There are cricket clubs, and one of the mill buildings (just now crammed with bales of flax) has been fitted up by Mr. Herdman as a theatre.
A little more than half way between the station and Sion House, Mr. Herdman met us afoot.
After luncheon we walked with Mr. Herdman through the mills and the model village which has grown up around them.
Amos, the herdman of Tekoa, comes like a whirlwind from Judah, utters his message at Bethel and returns.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "herdman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
