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Definition of Herdboy
1. a boy who acts as a shepherd [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Herdboy
Literary usage of Herdboy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law by James George Frazer (1919)
"1 Above, p. 126. Reasons for the chastity of the king's herdsmen and herdboy.
Sympathetic relation of the herdboy to the king. ..."
2. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1905)
"The Visions of Gottfried, the herdboy ON the lonely alp, azure sky above hini,
azure gentians round his feet, lay Gottfried, ..."
3. The book of German songs, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century by Henry William Dulcken (1871)
"PEACEFUL from the hill the chapel Looketh on the vale below; Singing clear by
stream and meadow, Doth the joyous herdboy go. Hark! ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1881)
"The sketch will be entitled 'Robert Burns at Mossgiel, with Reminiscences of the
Poet by his herdboy,' and will probably contain an etching of the original ..."
5. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"The herdboy and the Hunter. A herd- boy was tending some buffaloes on the skirts
of a ... And the herdboy said, "I have just seen him enter yonder covert. ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1857)
"... herdboy to a widow who kept a farm close by his father's cottage. He was paid
the magnificent wages of twopence a-day, and his duties were not onerous, ..."
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