"A gran 'worker he'll be," called the drover after him. From Wordnik.com. [Bob, Son of Battle] Reference
A drover was the purchaser at three guineas and a crown. ". From Wordnik.com. [Address Before The Second Biennial Convention Of The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union] Reference
When a well-known, famous drover came a-walking up to me. From Wordnik.com. [Buffalo Skinners] Reference
A widely known Highland drover sold a horse to an Englishman. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
A man drover over an embankment and fell 200 feet down a canyon. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2005] Reference
Thus the ex-drover, fresh from the perusal of Halleck on Military. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
For twenty years he wandered the caravan trails as a common drover. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Conrads Crusade]
He had also been captain of a canal-packet, a drover, a deputy-sheriff. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Scotch drover, Campbell, -- for how else could he know so well about it?. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Brown, who was very clever, had raised himself from being an Irish drover. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference
In driving cattle the drover should have no dog, which will only annoy them. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
After a day's rest I crossed the ferry with the cattle, assisted by the drover. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference
The English drover applied to the bailiff on the property, who was known to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827] Reference
I drover Fairview Road because that leads to the road where Leah Freeman was found. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2009] Reference
Sleeping overnight in the town, the drover started for home next morning before daylight. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
With all the merits of a sanguine temper, our young English drover was not without his defects. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827] Reference
We could get but one drover, a townsman, to assist in lifting them, and had to turn drovers ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference
In the meanwhile, Mr. Ireby found some amusement in detaining the northern drover at his ancient hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827] Reference
She was sold to a drover for the Southern market, and was being torn from her husband and two little daughters. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
The drover keeps it taut during the raising process, so that the tube buckles over and seals off the water bag. From Wordnik.com. [7. Profiles] Reference
For a wee while after Dan's question we three walked in silence, and then the drover turned his wild face to us. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
There we met a drover, and a party of cow boys with one thousand head of California bronchos bound for the States. From Wordnik.com. [Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events] Reference
Icefirth sheep-drover; and we all know that thou hast come to claim some share of the sheep, as any other beggar might. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
Dalness lies in Glen Etive, at a gusset of hills on either side of which lie paths known to the drover and the adventurer. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
The drover should have a walking stick, a useful instrument at times in turning a sheep disposed to break off from the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
A thief was one who stole a cow from a poor cotter, but he who lifted a drove from a Sassenach laird was "a gentleman drover.". From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
He'd been down to the tavern to see a drover, an 'comin' home he'd follered behind us all the way, hearin 'every word we said. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
But now a whole bunch of the federal folk, and some consultants and company people as well, want to make it rhyme with "drover.". From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
And so chattering, they had already won half-way across that lonely stretch of moor regarding which the drover had had misgivings. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
In the elaborate version of Stoney's mote in Sri Lankam, the drawbar is equipped with a supporting wheel and a seat for the drover. From Wordnik.com. [7. Profiles] Reference
They was 'ticed on a ship, fetch 'cross de ocean to Virginny, fetch to Winnsboro by a slave drover, and sold to my marster's father. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
One morning, in the early autumn of 1519, a young man, clad in the coarse garments of a drover, made a hasty exit from the gate of Kalö. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
Having the cattle prepared for travel, the drover takes the road very slowly for the first two days, not exceeding seven or eight miles a day. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
The lawyer, the doctor, the clergyman, even Frank himself, found themselves listening with deference to the words of this plainly dressed, unobtrusive, Scottish drover. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
As a drover was passing by colonel O'Kelly's on his way with a flock of sheep for Smithfield market, one of them became so lame and sore-footed, that it could travel no further. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
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