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Recent Examples of shepherdessThere’s also an impressive 1836 drawing of a young shepherdess by Jules Dupre, acquired by the museum in 2009 as part of a bequest from collector Muriel Butkin.—Steven Litt, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023 And Angela Chatelain Avila entertainingly plays most of the play’s female roles, including the neighbor’s gentle-natured wife Beryl, a boy servant, a maid and a shepherdess.—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022 The Queen was—and will remain—a shepherdess of Britishness: someone to lead the way.—John Galliano, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2022 Set in Peru’s Andes, Margarita, a shepherdess, comes upon a dying Chilean soldier who has escaped from a battle.—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022 The painting depicts a young shepherdess kneeling in prayer side-by-side with an angel before the Lady Madonna.—BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
Most of the smashing is done by Tamburlaine, a Scythian shepherd by birth, who rises to the peaks of power, lays waste to one kingdom after another, and has the temerity, at the climax of Part 1, not to die.
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Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
The occurrences grew more aggressive over time, with the Smurls' 75-pound German shepherd getting slammed into a wall and Jack getting attacked while praying.
After Joe translates for Washington in an interrogation with a sheepherder whose land borders the ravine where Vines’s body was found, Washington finally makes her suspicions plain.
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Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2025
Whitfield doubles down on his previous orders, instructing the former sheepherder to murder all the Duttons and dump their bodies in the lawless border town.
For the past few weeks, he’s been embroiled in a back-and-forth feud with cowboy singer Charley Crockett.
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Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
13 Sep. 2025
The pair showed off their playful side by dressing as ninjas for a Halloween Instagram post in 2023 and later decked out in cowboy-and-cowgirl outfits to celebrate her birthday in 2024.
In Mathura, a northern city where Krishna is said to have been born, people recreate a Hindu myth in which Krishna visits Radha to romance her, and her cowherd friends, taking offense at his advances, drive him out with sticks.
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Hari Kumar,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2024
Caterina was foisted off on a cowherd in a neighboring village, while Ser Piero married into a wealthy family.
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