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Definition of Gooseherds
1. gooseherd [n] - See also: gooseherd
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gooseherds
Literary usage of Gooseherds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"... for we have a formal complaint of the ¡ royal gooseherds " —all Egyptians — [hat
they cannot bear this burden and do their duty to the king. ..."
2. The Andover Review edited by Egbert Coffin Smyth, William Jewett Tucker, John Wesley Churchill, George Harris, Edward Young Hincks (1892)
"The royal gooseherds write to complain that a requisition of sixteen geese has
been made by a visiting official. Throughout, the vocabulary is more like the ..."
3. Studies in Prose and Poetry: By Algernon Charles Swinburne by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1897)
"... greatest of all Frenchmen so capable of such bitter contempt for the democratic
theatricals of Gallican geese and gooseherds as was excited in the mind ..."
4. The Rural Community, Ancient and Modern by Newell LeRoy Sims (1920)
"Village cowherds, swineherds, and gooseherds are still employed in many parts of
Germany. To this day the arable land of the Mark is tilled ..."
5. The Poems of Heine: Complete by Heinrich Heine (1866)
"Ah, that music sweetly ringing " Is, my friend, no rival chorus; " 'Tis but
youthful gooseherds, singing " As they drive their geese before us. ..."
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