Word: herd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goats were the objects of our expedition. These goats now wild but descended from a domestic herd left on the islands 400 years ago by Zargo, manage to obtain water for life from dew and scant fresh water pools in the rock, inaccessible to men. The goats were remarkably agile in moving about in the rocks but they did not far surpass in this art, the natives of the Madeiran village of Canico. These, accustomed to hunting the shearwater gulls among the rocks for the purpose of their feathers and wax, and the orchilla lichen for its dye mounted...
...lest it be thought that I am underestimating Mr. Washburn's work let me quote at random. "This is another story of the Log Cabin to the White House." "Cal first went to school in the little red schoolhouse." "He early became an adept in divorcing the lowing herd which winds slowly o'er the lea from the raw material which makes for butter and cheese." "He is as much himself at work in smock-frock and boots as the sometimes effete children of Beacon Street, when they loll in dinner jackets, or decollate and lapis lazuli...
...mysterious Dan McMasters, sheriff of Gonzales, son of Burleson Lockhart's best friend and a two-gunman. He brings news of a market "north of 36" ?the railroad has come to Abilene? the East is crying for cattle. Wealth lies waiting for any Texan who dares drive a herd some fifteen hundred miles through a country practically unmapped?savage as a rattlesnake. "Let's go!" said Taisie Lockhart...
...Havers won his laurels by steadiness, with four 73's and a 76. He recently succeeded Sandy Herd as the professional at Coome Hill Club near London, though still in his early twenties. At 14 he broke the record for the Royal Norwich Course and two years later qualified for the open championship...
...enduring. Today, accordingly, as we sat through a tedious hour in Harvard 6, Comrade Ratsky called my attention to a part of the bench before him. Here he had smoothed a place with his knife and had inscribed deep, heavily-pencilled lines: "All of you here are but a herd of garbage swilling pigs. You shall rot in your stagnant tracks...