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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
Mija the Yorkshire terrier lived in Florida with her owner, 33, who chose not to give his name, and his much-larger dogs, including a husky and Swiss shepherd.
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Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
His first adoption failed, and the German shepherd returned to the Yorba Linda couple at 9 months.
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.
Bighorn Scenic Byway Wyoming Embrace your inner cowboy with a drive along the Bighorn Scenic Byway, which takes you over the crest of the Big Horn Mountains and to spots like the city of Sheridan, where New West meets Old West in the historic downtown.
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.
Now, the ranch is proactively using drones equipped with speakers and bright lights as stand-in cowhands, WSJ reported.
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Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
Things are also taking a turn for the worse in Texas, where Runs His Horse successfully tracks down the ranch cowhands that interrupted Pete and Teonna’s tryst.
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