It will be remembered that Rambolet Bill and Cottswool Canvasback couldn't write, but they had drawn pictures in the book, and when we had gotten another sheepman who couldn't write to examine them he read them just like print.
Packsaddle Jack said he knowed a sheepman once by the name of Black Face, who was so good-hearted that he paid $20 towards one of his herder's doctor bill when he lost both feet by their being frozen in the great Wyoming blizzard in '94.
The sheepman glanced up warningly, but Matthews was going ahead full steam.
I ask MacDonald here, who is the richest sheepman west of the Mississippi, what's he willing to do for the party.
Y'r sheepman an' his wife, Miss Eleanor here was na' born then, had come down from the North.
The ranger was not in a mood to invite the sheepman in, and, besides, he perceived the danger to which Wetherford was exposed.
Thereupon a violent discussion arose over the question of the right of a sheepman to claim first grass for his flocks, and Gregg boasted that he cared nothing for "the dead-line.
The giantsheepman of the high country strode up, nodded, and took his check.
But the big sheepman knew that Shoop had called High Chin's bluff about "any game going.
The Starr boys were still pitching dollars when Shoop and the sheepman approached.
But when the sheepmanstepped off ten paces and faced the competitors with a cigar held at arm's length, the chattering of the crowd ceased.
Without warning, thesheepman tossed the cans into the air.
The giant sheepman of the south country was known to every one on account of his great physique and his immense holdings in land and sheep.
The sheepman faced them, with his hands behind his back.
Having been directed to the new camp, Phil galloped away, Tad remaining to chat with the sheepman a few minutes.
Wondering at the haste of the disreputable looking youngster, the sheepman watched him until he had gotten out of sight.
I knew one old sheepman back on the Sweetwater that wore one pair of pants 'leven years.
Are you shaking hands with Ned Bannister the sheepman or Ned Bannister the outlaw?
In the course of the day and the second night both the sheepman and his friend made attempt to establish a more cordial relationship with Chalkeye, but so far as any apparent results went their efforts were vain.
So by mutual consent the sheepman fell in behind the blatant youth who had wearied McWilliams so and rode in silence.
Jim McWilliams and the sheepman Bannister had that day sealed a friendship that was to be as enduring as life.
With his indubitable power, backed by the unpopularity of the sheepman in this cattle country, the King of the Bighorn could destroy his cousin if he set himself to do so.
I have not a doubt of it, Mr. McWilliams," returned the sheepman blithely.
The sheepman dropped a hand on his shoulder gently.
The sheepman leaped to his feet and strode to the door.
This desperado, Bannister, is my cousin," answered the sheepman gravely.
Mormon Joe added in obvious pride, "You're the best sheepman in the country, Katie, bar none.
I understand sheep--he said I was a better sheepman than he was because I had more patience and like them.
Wall, this sheepman had a pal and the two of them decided one day that ef they didn't want ter act as reliable imitations of porous plasters they'd better be gitting.
He was a sheepman and maintained his flocks on another creek, and had a very close call, in fact, just escaped being murdered by the savages by the narrowest margin.
There has always been ill feeling between the sheepman and the cattleman, and in the trouble that generally ensued on their meeting, the sheepman was the one to move to other quarters.
A sheepman is always received with scant courtesy in a cattle country.
But such an eloquent and ingenious puzzle as it is!
His knowledge of human nature, particularly of woman's heart, is great, but seems more the result of impish eavesdropping than of that thorough and genial insight which sympathy produces.
His power of simulating passion is great; but the passion must, in general, be mingled with unnatural elements ere he can realise it--the game must be putrid ere he can enjoy its flavour.
Like lava from a crater they poured over the slope above me; and above them, seeming prodigiously big against the weird sky, went the sheepman with his staff in his hand and a war-bag over his arm, while at his heels a wise collie followed.
Do you know the difference between a sheepman in Scotland, say, and in Montana?
The sheepman went out as Youbet returned; and the latter seated himself, crossing his legs and drawing out his pipe.
The sheepman drank his liquor and, returning to his corner, placed his elbows on the table, and his chin in his hands, apparently paying no further attention to the others.
At the precise time that Daniel Pratt was entering Cheyenne County from the East, a Mexican sheepman was moving toward the Cannon Ball from the Southwest, walking behind ten thousand sheep, leaving a dusty, bare and stinking trail behind him.
When Mose took the small, firm hand of the sheepman and looked into his face he liked him, and the stranger returned his liking.
He held out his hand and the sheepman shook it heartily.
You fellows hold the winning hand," said Delmar; "the small rancher will sure wipe the sheepman out in time.
The sheepman grimly replied: "I have the reputation in my country of taking care of myself.
Not long after the wounding of Constance, Henry went up the river, which ran near his ranch, and entered the ranch-yard of a sheepman called Joe Brown, who owned a sheep vat and a furnace.
In an instant the sheepman turned and hastened to the tent in order to seize his rifle.
When the lucky sheepman returned to his ranch from the scene of this thrilling little battle he found that a strange happening had come to pass.
The Indian ran away, before the startled sheepman could seize a rifle and shoot in return.
On'y sheepman I ever knowed worth trubblin' about was a woman.
One thing about a sheepman is allus good," said Mormon.
If not a sheepman or a prospector, a third probability made him an outlaw, a man with a price on his head, hiding in the wilds from punishment.
Some derned sheepman gone crazy an' shot his-self," grumbled Sam.
It was a harsh blow to know that her pet had consorted with such a person, who was not only a sheepman but had earned his nickname in a way that our best people thought not nice.
The sheepman rode on and soon met the wagon being escorted by two more cowboys while a third rode at the side of the horses, leading them.
On the following morning the sheepman saddled up and packed and got away at a fairly early hour.
I never said we was going to sheep you out," retorted the sheepman sullenly.
As he ended his appeal he stood with his hands thrown out, and the sheepman looked at him, smiling curiously.
For a moment thesheepman sat rigid in the darkness.
If any sheepman resented the silent sentinels that rode along the rim he made no demonstration of the fact--and yet, for some reason every herd sooner or later wandered around until it fetched up against the dead line.
And I told him furthermore that the first sheep or sheepman that p'inted his head down the Pocket trail would stop lead; and every one tharafter, as long as I could draw a bead.
Once more the sheepman leaped up from his place and scampered down the hill to his herd, rounding up his pack animals as he ran.
And for his part, never for a moment did Hardy try to crowd him, but let the talk lead where it would, until of his own volition the sheepman told his story.
He leaned over and looked the sheepman in the eye but Thomas met his glance with a sardonic smile.
For the first few minutes it was more of a chase than a fight, and in that the sheepman was at his worst, cumbered by his wet clothes and the water in his shoes.
And so, in a friendship unparalleled in the history of the Four Peaks country, a sheepman and a cowman parted in amity--and the sheep went around.
He looked at thesheepman and he laughed shortly in an ugly, jeering way.
His mind traveled back to those days twenty-five years ago when he and the sheepman had both hitched their horses in front of Helen Radcliff's home.
The sheepman was shrewd and cunning, but he had no such force of character as Crawford.
So the sheepman found himself between the upper and the nether millstones.
The sheepman heard them with a polite derision that suggested an impersonal amusement at the situation.
The sheepman looked at the ranger with opaque stony eyes.
If we're going to discuss your father you had better get your quirt again," the sheepman suggested, touching a scar on his face.
The sheepman looked at him with a sinister significance.
The puzzled look of the sheepman told Cullison that Blackwell's plan of exit for him had not been submitted to the other.
The whole story of the horse had been a myth later invented by the sheepman to scatter the pursuit by making it appear that the robber had come from a distance.
How far he might feel this justified him in ignoring it the sheepman did not know.
For the sheepman had got out on bail the morning after his arrest.
A little awkwardly Luck invited the sheepman to join them.
Blackwell's second meeting with the sheepman had been almost as startling as the first.
Not content with this, he made the whole party adjourn to the club rooms so that he might see exactly where Luck had sat and the different places the sheepman had stood from the time he entered until the poker players left.
The pale face of the boy turned from the sheepman to his father.
He's got to die, by gum," the old sheepman said, his eyes like frozen stars.
They went down into the big hall with the open fireplace, and the oldsheepman waved his hand toward a chair.
And I'm plumb shore when we get through there won't be a sheepmanleft in this part of the State.
Juliet pounded on the floor with the butt of her weapon (this was the signal agreed upon for the removal of Stelton), and a sheepman almost immediately thrust his head in at the door.
On the other hand, as the girl had promised, Beef Bissell, for years the terror of the range, displayed a side that the sheepman would never have suspected.
I won't be beaten by any sheepmanthat ever walked.
The sheepman was resigned to losing the hundred, just as cattlemen do not hesitate to cut out and abandon all weak animals on a long drive.
With his naturally quick eye, the sheepman observed them closely, but failed to recognize any of them.
At the end of what was probably three hours, a small fiery glow made itself evident at some distance across the plain, and the sheepman knew by this camp-fire that the goal of his ride was in sight.
The sheepman could not but admire the natural advantages of the place chosen by his captors for the meeting.
Bissell wants to see you," said the rider whose voice the sheepman recognized as that of Stelton.
I allow that darned sheepman has made us look like a lot of tenderfeet, Mike.
Sympathetic though they were with Bissell's cause, Larkin's story of how a despised sheepman had outwitted the cattle-king brought grins and chuckles.
Now, instead of being the mighty baron with the high hand, he was the seeker for help, and this despised sheepman held the trump cards.
One sheepman had been killed, and another's broken shoulder was being roughly dressed by Sims.
Stelton gave one look at the hard, determined eyes of the sheepman and thought better of the impulse to bolt for the rifle on a chance.
The sheepman at his lonely ranch had little warning of the storm, and he did not get half of his cows in the corral.
In the mean time the ruined sheepman had made his way to the nearest army post, which stood upon a level plateau in front of Hog's Back Mountain.
And Bell, in his character of a loutish sheepman from one of the ranches that dot the shores of the Strait, grinned awkwardly back.
And Bell and Jamison plodded to the reeking place in which a half-drunk sheepman pointed, and there Bell sat grimly in the vermin infested room while Jamison, swearing wryly, went out.
It was a mere nothing for a cattleman or a sheepman to be lost for a day or a night.
The other was Thompson Burrows, the prosperous sheepman from the Quintana Valley.
But to the unintelligent gaze of the cowpuncher and the sheepman they seemed fresh from the mint of contemporaneous April.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheepman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
