herd-boy

This, and Sam having found the hay and oats, not forgetting the ale, very good at this small inn, first made me take the fancy of resting here for a day or two; and I have got my grinning blackguard of a piscator leave to attend on me, by paying sixpence a day for a herd-boy in his stead.

Redgauntlet 2008

Devas, wishing to excite the idea in his mind, assumed the appearance of a little herd-boy, and was making a tope right in the way (of the king), who asked what sort of thing he was making.

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 2003

On arriving there, however, a little herd-boy, despatched as a messenger, told us that:

Wuthering Heights 2002

Cattle moved about listlessly, cropping at the occasional patch of brown, withered grass, while a pot-bellied herd-boy, dusty and be-aproned, watched them from under a tree.

Tears Of The Giraffe Smith, Alexander McCall, 1948- 2000

Mac Kechan, and a little herd-boy by way of a guide, alone accompanied the Prince, as he set out upon a laborious walk of fourteen miles towards Portree.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson

Ruler of Devas, wishing to excite the idea in his mind, assumed the appearance of a little herd-boy, and was making a tope right in the way (of the king), who asked what sort of thing he was making.

A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline ca. 337-ca. 422 Faxian

That is a vague record of the combat between the man and the dragon in that strange little valley, with its perpetual evening twilight and calm, its meadows crusted with lilies, its herd-boy with his quiet song, close upon the precincts of hell.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

The General's voice in Gaelic rose over all but the river's murmur, as he called across the wattle gate to a herd-boy bearing in peat for the night and morning fires.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

Donald Roy Macdonald then told Malcolm that the three persons whom he had seen going towards the public-house were the Prince, Mac Kechan, and the herd-boy.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson

He had not, however, been long in the public-house, before the voice of the herd-boy calling for the landlord, and desiring to know if one Donald

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson