sheep-run

The tracks of his paces were so worn on the carpet that it suggested a sheep-run through the heather.

Demons, Demons James Gurney 2010

The tracks of his paces were so worn on the carpet that it suggested a sheep-run through the heather.

Archive 2010-04-01 James Gurney 2010

Queensland sheep-run, and his flocks ran far afield over a vast territory of which he was the only lord.

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil 2004

Boolabong, and was a cattle-run, as distinguished from a sheep-run; but it was a poor place, was sometimes altogether unstocked, and was supposed to be not unfrequently used as a receptable for stolen cattle.

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil 2004

And just as in olden times God called His chief servants from the farmstead and the sheep-run, so even still the men of might have been those whose natures were made strong by youthful hardship and boyish battles.

The Story of Garfield Farm-boy, Soldier, and President William G. Rutherford

If these men had gone upon a farm or sheep-run for two or three years 'apprenticeship, investing their money safely meanwhile, they might have become in a few more years, prosperous colonists.

Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 Robert B. Booth

The man-eater lurked in a wood that was hard by the sheep-run.

Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Various

'I bought' im out of the yard at Breeza Downs – that's Windeatt's run about sixty miles from Moongarr, and I will say that though it's a sheep-run they've beat us in the breed of their 'osses ....

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

The solitude was greater than I could bear; the mountain upon my master's sheep-run was a crowded thoroughfare in comparison with this sombre sullen place.

Erewhon; or, Over the range 1910

The more I looked at everything in the house, the more I was struck with its quasi-European character; and had the walls only been pasted over with extracts from The Illustrated London News and Punch, I could have almost fancied myself in a shepherd's hut upon my master's sheep-run.

Erewhon; or, Over the range 1910