As one result of the sojourn the Israelites were transformed from shepherds and herdsmen to tillers of the soil--a higher manner of living.
For two centuries the little clan of Abraham's family lived in Palestine as strangers, pitching their tents in various localities, wherever pasturage was abundant, for at this time they were shepherds and herdsmen (Gen.
The broad belt by which the pocket hangs is generally adorned with two or three rows of shining metal buttons, for which these herdsmen are so eager, that they have been often known to fall upon travellers for the sake of them alone.
Besides the Csikoses there are other classes of herdsmen denominated from their particular occupation Gulyas, cowherds; Juhasz, shepherds; and Kanasz, swineherds.
From the expressions of these songs, you may know that they belong to men wandering in vast solitudes, and whose strains, crossing deep valleys, excite the voices of the herdsmen on the opposite hills.
The herdsmen are usually mere thieves, stealing cattle when they can, and plundering travellers when good opportunities present themselves.
She had heard the Tyrolese highly extolled for their skill and cleverness in this operation, and therefore had severalherdsmen brought from the Tyrol, that they might instruct her in the milking and general management of cattle.
In times of peace they will patrol the new forests, watching for fire and other disaster, they will become herdsmen of the new herds and be the police and rescue forces of this wide area.
As the Cheyennes of the olden times of the land of my birth could have become herdsmen and forest rangers and have performed similar tasks had they been shown the way.
Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants andHerdsmen From the French of Alex.
Moreover, after supplying their own wants, the herdsmen can sell the surplus meat and skins, and thus obtain the wherewithal to buy other necessaries or luxuries.
Only the Lapp herdsmen and their dogs are able to control these wild children of a wild land.
The River Lapps, on the other hand, are both herdsmen and fishermen.
It is all weird and wild and wonderful, and if there be no wind the silence is intense, and only broken by the bark of an Arctic fox from some rocky hillside or by the plaintive call of a golden plover.
Then it is that they get out their snowshoes and enter with zest into the grand sport of ski-ing, or, taking their guns with them, go off on their ski to shoot ryper or hares for the market.
Towards evening they observed three or four herdsmen gathered by the stream at the point where Carter had killed the bullock the night before.
Four golden herdsmen accompanied the oxen, and nine dogs, swift of foot, followed.
Women and children fled into nooks and corners; some found their way to their huts, and the herdsmen on the hills rushed into the adjacent kloofs and valleys.
But few shots had been exchanged between the herdsmen and the Kafirs; but, as the marauders carried off the plunder in triumph, a chief appeared, clad in leopard skin, and riding a noble white charger.
Ye Four Herdsmenof the Deer, Come ye down to meet the dogs.
Herdsmen make their rennet by soaking a calf's stomach in water or in whey; they then save this liquid to use in making their cheeses.
Some kind herdsmenwere giving the family a home until they could build another house on the mountain side.
About half-an-hour later the herdsmen found him dressed in his Sunday suit going in the direction of the "Old Hag's Rock.
Even the herdsmen sighed to Bacha, "How shall we ever get along without Palko Lesina?
Not only both the boys, but everybody else was afraid of these storm-clouds, even the herdsmen and the sheep, as well as the longhaired, fourfooted guards of the sheepfold.
Are there pastures extended to the horizon, with herdsmen and flocks sprinkled over them, and in the midst a cloud of smoke overhanging a town, from which roads part off in many directions?
At the village inn I found several herdsmen and mechanics, each with a bottle of Rheinthaler wine before him.
Early in May the herdsmen leave their winter homes in the valleys and go with their cattle to the Matten, or lofty mountain pastures.
This Scottish word, signifying the summer cabin of the herdsmen on the mountains, exactly expresses the Sennhütten of the Swiss.
The Legend of Knockshegowna (Hill of the Fairy-calf) the first given in that work, relates how the fairies used to torment the cattle and herdsmen for intruding on one of their favourite places of resort which was on this hill.
They are much attached to a pastoral life, and have introduced themselves into all the kingdoms on the windward coast as herdsmen and husbandmen, paying a tribute to the sovereign of the country for the lands which they hold.
She is the great goddess of the herdsmen and other dwellers in the forest, and they vow to her a cock, a goat, or a young pig if she saves them and their cattle from beasts of prey.
In the Western Panjab deserts, during the prairie fires and in the dead of night, the lonely herdsmen used to hear cries arising from the ground, and shouts of Mar!
Mpinga's Wahuma herdsmen had given notice to Musiri's Wahuma herdsmen, and Mazamboni's Wahuma had been just as communicative to their fellow-countrymen with the enemy.
In every district near the grass-land the plant is abundantly cultivated, for the purpose of commerce with the herdsmen of the plains in exchange for meat.
The invention of the art of ploughing opened new possibilities for the European peoples: for an agricultural people has far better chances than a people of herdsmen of accumulating wealth and making progress in the useful arts.
Those who took their homes amid the forests of central Europe still continued the life of hunters and herdsmen which had once been common to all the Aryans.
The herdsmen of Numitor in the course of the quarrel drove away some of the cattle which were claimed as belonging to the herdsmen of Amulius.
Romulus had arrived there at the head of the band of peasants and herdsmen that he had collected in the forests.
Achilles seized the flocks and herds, and drove Æneas and his fellow-herdsmen away.
They were prominent among the young herdsmen and hunters of the forest, for their courage, their activity, their strength, their various personal accomplishments, and their high and generous qualities of mind.
It happened at one time that some contention arose between the herdsmen of Numitor and those of Amulius, among whom Romulus and Remus were residing.
Romulus and Remus treated their own companions and equals, that is the young shepherds and herdsmen of the mountains, with great courtesy and kindness, and were very kindly regarded by them in return.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "herdsmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
