How To Use Drover In A Sentence
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Cart-horses furbished up for sale, with straw-bound tails and glistening skins; 'baaing' flocks of sheep; squeaking pigs; bullocks with their heads held ominously low, some going, some returning, from the auction yard; shouting drovers; lads rushing hither and thither; dogs barking; everything and everybody crushing, jostling, pushing through the narrow street.
Hodge and His Masters
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Lancashire, and will not only know the country but have acquaintances there, and being known as a drover would pass without suspicion of his being engaged with politics.
Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden
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At the end of the road turn left and continue along Drovers' Way and the property to be sold is the last house on the left-hand side.
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Legend has it that this was because a wandering sheep drover boasted that he was able to drink a hat filled with ale.
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 104
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After heading west at the age of 15, he ranched with relatives in Colorado, then knocked around the U.S. and Canadian Rockies, working as a drover and broncobuster.
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He drives his Landrover (well, not actually his Landrover, but the Landrover of anyone foolhardy enough to lend him one) with what can only be described as pizzazz along Mauritian roads that were built with something less than pizzazz in mind.
Last Chance to See
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The sheep were very wild, and the drover was a boy who did not know how to drive them.
Jim Davis
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This time I led to the altar a buffalo cow, as they call the "muley" down South, -- a large, spotted, creamy-skinned cow, with a fine udder, that I persuaded a Jew drover to part with for ninety dollars.
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
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It would be a life-size bronze of a highland bull, a drover and his dog.
Country diary: Dingwall mart
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A Smithfield is a leggy type of collie of the sort that bullock drovers used when working cattle half a century ago.
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The drover walked alongside the oxen, gently tapping them with his stick.
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He swung into the saddle on the first try, waved at some of the drovers, and headed back to camp.
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Aborigines who worked as drovers and stockmen on cattle stations were largely ignored until the appearance of works such as Ann McGrath's Born in the Cattle.
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The sheep drovers reveal qualities of pragmatism, self-reliance, independence, mateship and solidarity, in an environment to be mastered and with resources to be exploited.
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The tavern emptied, except for two drovers who snored cheerfully by the dying fire and the potman who made his bed under the serving hatch.
Sharpe's Rifles
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I don't know many women who can whistle like a cattle drover.
FAMILY BLESSINGS
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‘One of the cottages here used to serve ale to passing cattle drovers,’ said Mr White.
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So he walked on to the river, which was deep and broad, and threw the sack containing the old drover into the water, believing it to be Little Claus.
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Of course the drought is also incredibly draining financially: feed for stock, drovers, agistment, fodder and pumping water for the stock that has remained on the property.
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He believes that the model, which was designed in the 1960s, will perform better than a Landrover in desert conditions.
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The glamour of the handsome country boy has been lost as so many young men have gone, and the drovers and stockmen have been replaced with road trains.
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The kind of men who looked good in a Landrover with a springer spaniel at their side.
FALLEN WOMEN
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The drover walked alongside the oxen, gently tapping them with his stick.
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It grew dark, and Burginde pulled open the tarpaulin flap to speak to the drover.
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Inside the mart the display shows all the various aspects of the droving days from the drovers to the cattle and the routes.
Country diary: Dingwall mart
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That something else is in charge now, maybe a drover
Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: Are You in a Healthy and Committed Relationship?
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He watched departures from harbours, joined drovers crossing fords and muleteers breasting hills, embarked on ferries for no purpose.
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One of them, he didn't know which, made a break for it in the car, so Hopkirk shot the other one and gave chase in his Landrover.
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After sometimes months on the road, carefully herding the squatter's stock, the drover would ask for his cheque.
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He could supply drovers with all necessaries, including the best brands of liquors and fresh water.
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In the Landrover in which I was travelling was a large dog fox.
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I don't know many women who can whistle like a cattle drover.
FAMILY BLESSINGS
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The working border collie dog, traditional assistant to livestock farmer and stock drover.
Country diary: Dingwall mart
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The newcorner was slim, and Rogers felt that he might break him between his hands if he could only get a proper grip; but the drunken drover -- for it was he -- was as sinuous as an eel, and a moment later Joe was on the broad of his back with the 'darbies' on his wrists and a trooper kneeling on his chest, while the drover, transformed into Detective Downy, stood over them, mopping his face with his big false beard.
The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
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Originally a shelter for drovers herding their animals through the Ochil Hills, the Bein Inn, which dates from 1861, nestles in the wooded slops of Glen Farg.
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A Landrover crunched up over the gravel and stopped.
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The ranks of his men closed in orderly march and followed him, and the bruised and draggled survivors of Gwion's unblessed army took up their dead and straggled after, leaving the trampled and bloodied beach clear of all but the drovers and their cattle, and Cadwaladr alone, aloof from all men, stalking in a black, forbidding cloud of disgust and humiliation after his brother.
His Disposition
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Snatch landrovers, although entirely unsuitable for Iraq, work greta in boggy terrain like teh Falklands.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war?
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The drover got to work unhitching the oxen, and the horsemen unsaddled their horses and led them to the trees and hobbled them.
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The bull dominates the sculpture; the lifelike drover is clad in the traditional clothes he would have worn and he has a collie dog at heel.
Country diary: Dingwall mart
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The drover got to work unhitching the oxen, and the horsemen unsaddled their horses and led them to the trees and hobbled them.
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The Maythorn Cross was a boundary marker at the crossroads of a ‘salt trail’ between Cheshire and Wakefield, where drovers ferried salt in panniers by packhorse.
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The LandRover turned east towards Mayaro and moments later was passing the cemetery on the edge of town.
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On all occasions the drovers were armed with various weapons to defend their charge from the cattle-stealers who were too often apt to hang upon their skirts, ready to carry off any stray beast they could find, though the gibbet was the penalty if they were captured.
John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
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An ashplant was the name for a common implement among farmers and drovers of cattle in Ireland, made from a sapling of an ash tree.
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The old cattle drovers who had to bring their sheep great distances to annual sales depended on their dogs, and both cattle and sheep looked upon them as guides and protectors.
Country Diary: Northumberland
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A drover was the purchaser at three guineas and a crown.
Address Before The Second Biennial Convention Of The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union
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a cotter is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird is a gentleman-drover.
The Waverley
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He was born in 1679, of well-to-do parents, but started his working life as a drover, that is to say a person who drove great herds of cattle from the countryside to the great cities like London, for consumption there.
John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
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He fought his way through the ragged crowd and climbed into the Landrover and started the engine.
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The transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock.
Les Miserables
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When most people think about Australian national identity, the images they remember are overwhelmingly blokey - drovers, surfies, lifesavers, Anzac soldiers.
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A gran 'worker he'll be," called the drover after him.
Bob, Son of Battle
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I don't know which is the bigger piece of shit, you or your Landrover.
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The drover had set about yoking the oxen.
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For their part, the Aborigines were not only good stockmen on the station, but drawn successfully to droving, with its better pay and travel, until trucks gradually supplanted the drover after the Second World War.
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Martyn Sowerbutts, now retired after a career in computers, and his wife Cherry like to walk their dogs, Scrumpy and Enzo, along the bridleways and old drovers' roads, many of which would disappear under the foundations of the new housing estates.
East Coker, TS Eliot's placid village, resists threat of housing invasion
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Drover: Oh. Right. You mean the breeding. Yeah.
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The drover walked alongside the oxen, gently tapping them with his stick.
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He listened to bush mothers and stockmen, drovers and graziers, troops going into and returning from battle, committees, councils, prime ministers, popes and royalty.
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Just to tease the boss, the drovers made a big to-do about who would sit next to Laurie but, in the end, Gil ended up at her side.
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The drovers made a fire and put on a pot of coffee and began frying up pancakes and slabs of pork.
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He orders us into his Landrover and we skid across the causeway, the water rising with every revolution of the wheels, splashing above the windscreen.
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When most people think about Australian national identity, the images they remember are overwhelmingly blokey - drovers, surfies, lifesavers, Anzac soldiers.
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I did wonder if this vessel ever uprighted itself on the higher reaches of the tide, listening as I did to the first gurglings in the reed-bound mud as the sea once again started to push against the hull of an active fishing boat, (short-wheel based Landrover in attendance).
Tidal Reaches 2
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In these solitary regions, the cattle under the charge of our drovers subsisted themselves cheaply, by picking their food as they went along the drove-road, or sometimes by the tempting opportunity of a _start and owerloup_, or invasion of the neighbouring pasture, where an occasion presented itself.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
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One success has been the drovers' project, which was aimed at commemorating the work and life of the cattle drovers.
Country diary: Dingwall mart
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But since bulls had to be driven through the streets to the bullring for the festival bullfights, it is thought that it developed as a competition between drovers to see who could do this the fastest.
Crisis Tames the Pamplona Bull Run
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Nay, we have seen numberless processions of healthy kine enter our native village unheralded save by the lusty shouts of drovers, while a wretched calf, cursed by stepdame Nature with two heads, was brought to us in a triumphal car, avant-couriered by
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
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An 18th century drover's inn with bags of original character, it has big stone fireplaces which blaze with logs in winter, timbered ceilings and immensely thick stone walls.
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The call of the wild, Northern Territory and Queensland have taken him to places where he has worked as a drover, horse breaker, fencing contractor, rodeo rider, tent boxer and contract musterer.
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He would imagine and mimic the tones of a drouthy Highland drover demanding refreshment, -- which, by the way, he would have been sure to get had he so applied to Dr Burton; of an entirely drunk Lowlander, persisting in representing himself as a _bonâ fide_ traveller; of a highly
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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A quarter an hour later we were back on course up a gill, passing rush beds, grouse butts and, at an interesting bit of lead mine landscaping, connecting to the first of many a mile of Landrover track.
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The drover got to work unhitching the oxen, and the horsemen unsaddled their horses and led them to the trees and hobbled them.
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By Matt K, March 9, 2010 @ 8: 06 am sparty: “Snatch landrovers, although entirely unsuitable for Iraq, work greta in boggy terrain like teh Falklands.”
Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war?
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As we passed a ranch with several pinto ponies in the corral, it didn't require much on my part to envision that the Comanches were not gone, the Longhorns were not gone, the drovers, the outlaws, the gunfighters - none of them were gone.
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Once the buyers, predominantly English farmers, had bought their herds the common practice was to hire some local drovers to drive the cattle south into England.
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Aborigines who worked as drovers and stockmen on cattle stations were largely ignored until the appearance of works such as Born in the Cattle.
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There were horse traders, mule teamsters, and frequent drovers of cattle.
'David Ruggles'
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The track later known as the Oodnadatta Track became the main overland route for drovers and later the transcontinental railway to Darwin.
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This weekend of outback games, storytelling, yarns and the drovers reunion dinner pays tribute to the contribution that drovers, stockmen, stationhands, jillaroos and jackeroos have made to our unique pioneering history.
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Beckett had complained that he was barricaded into his home by an RUC Landrover which parked against his front door.
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Drovers with mobs of cattle of a thousand or more travelling south, and Afghan cameleers driving camel trains of up to a hundred camels north carrying station supplies, were common before the days of motor transport.
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Her reluctant guide through the vast, unforgiving terrain of the Northern Territory is the Drover (Hugh Jackman), a rough-hewn cattleman as rugged as Sarah is refined.
The IESB
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I think it was about there," Tenoctris called from the beside the millwheel, where she and Cashel had sheltered during the night to watch the drover.
Lord of the Isles
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Nigel Humphrey, 50, from Belvedere Avenue, Lancing, narrowly missed crashing into 44-year-old Anne Ford and hit her 'lollypop' with his Landrover as she stood terrified in the middle of West Street, Sompting, last July.
Undefined
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He listened to bush mothers and stockmen, drovers and graziers, troops going into and returning from battle, committees, councils, prime ministers, popes and royalty.
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Once the buyers, predominantly English farmers, had bought their herds the common practice was to hire some local drovers to drive the cattle south into England.
