How To Use Swineherd In A Sentence
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The church was dedicated to St Anthony of Egypt, patron saint of swineherds and of charcoal burners, a trade carried out on the fell for many years in the past.
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She advises that when he gets to Ithaca he should stay one night with the swineherd.
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As well as building an enclosure, the urban swineherd will need to provide shelter from the elements for his herd.
Times, Sunday Times
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The swineherd is responsible for many swine, which are vulnerable to thieves.
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Sixtus the Fifth was the son of a swineherd, and raised himself to the popedom by his abilities: he was a great knave, but an able and singular one.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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But we saw no one, not even a swineherd driving his pigs into the oak groves about us.
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Telemachus joins him with the cowherd and the swineherd.
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Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald," said Wamba with his usual effrontery; "the swineherd will be a fit usher to the Jew.
Ivanhoe. A Romance
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Say, whither art thou leading this glutton, thou wretched swineherd, this plaguy beggar, a kill-joy of the feast?
Book XVII
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And Telemachus called the swineherd to him, and took a whole loaf out of the fair basket, and of flesh so much as his hands could hold in their grasp, saying: 39
Book XVII
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One livestock disease detected in several Nebraska swineherds is pseudorabies.
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Back in 1386, a swineherd by the name of John the Foundling was so upset by the number of travellers who froze to death on the pass between Stuben and St Anton that he built a hospice to shelter them.
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Nothing was too trivial to merit her attention: the choice of an assistant to the vilicus, the punishment of a drunken swineherd, the design of a stone-cart, the mixing of honey with the dinner-wine.
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In Hungary, evil swineherds might order their pigs to attack you, so steer clear of the woods.
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As I did when they asked me to make a sword, a sword that could make a hero out of a husbandman , a warrior of an aleswiller, a savior from a swineherd.
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Then he saw a young man come to the entrance of the courtyard, the swineherds dogs fawning upon him.
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` ` Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald, '' said Wamba with his usual effrontery; ` ` the swineherd will be a fit usher to the Jew. ''
Ivanhoe
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This is the island Odysseus keeps claiming he is from when he lies to his family and the swineherd.
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He escaped from the ship and hid in a thicket and then wandered into the forest where he found the hut of the swineherd.
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He goes off to a distant country and wastes his resources on riotous living and eventually has to work as a "swineherd" (clearly a low point as swine are unclean in Judaism.)
Joan E. Dowlin: Allen Iverson: The Prodigal Son Returns to Philadelphia
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While this continues, the swineherd is leading Odysseus into the town.
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In 1068 the Domesday Book recorded a population of 650 people, including 28 slaves, 45 smallholders and 23 swineherds.
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IN THIS year Cynewulf and the councillors of the West Saxons deprived Sigeberht of his kingdom because of his unjust acts, except for Hampshire; and he retained that until he killed the ealdorman who stood by him longest; and then Cynewulf drove him into the Weald, and he lived there until a swineherd stabbed him to death by the stream at Privett, and he was avenging Ealdorman Cumbra.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
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Before he was crowned, however, he paid the rent by working as an alcohol researcher, swineherd, grape-picker, tax-collector and journalist.
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“Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald,” said Wamba with his usual effrontery; “the swineherd will be a fit usher to the
Ivanhoe
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The scene shifts (l. 301) to the hut of the swineherd, which is the present destination of Telemachus.
Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
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And Telemachus called the swineherd to him, and took a whole loaf out of the fair basket, and of flesh so much as his hands could hold in their grasp, saying:
The Odyssey
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Telemachus was the first to notice him, and calling the swineherd, who was sitting near, he gave him a loaf of bread and a good handful of meat, and bade him carry it to the beggar.
Stories from the Odyssey
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Most of those men would give their daughters to brothels and their sons to swineherds before they'd even think of tolerating me.
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You can meet the local fisherman, the wandering physic, swineherd and the village wisewoman as they go about their chores.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then she called the swineherd to her apartment and said: "Bring the beggar hither.
Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece
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These shared the general characteristics of being long in the leg and body, covered in wiry hair, and slow to fatten; similar pigs roamed in France and Germany, still kept at pannage with a swineherd.
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They saw many of the small holders displaced and the countryside depopulated; many of the labourers were also thrown out of employment, for there was no need in enclosed fields of the swineherd and shepherd and oxherd who had tended the common flocks of the villagers in the old unfenced fields.
A Short History of English Agriculture
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The church was dedicated to St Anthony of Egypt, patron saint of swineherds and of charcoal burners, a trade carried out on the fell for many years in the past.
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reconciler" drowning in a sea of adverse facts, can explain the catching at such a poor straw as the reckless guess that the swineherds of the "country of the Gadarenes" were erring Jews, doing a little clandestine business on their own account.
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
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The swineherd gives the bow to Odysseus and the suitors yell at him.
