Sentence examples for shepherds about from inspiring English sources

"Come ask us, the shepherds, about putting sharks in the Mediterranean," he added wryly.

I like his "too many sheep, not enough shepherds", about the management structure of the recording industry.

However, disputes often arise between farmers and hired shepherds about standards of care.

Almost everyone, religious or not, knows the story of the angels singing to the shepherds about peace on earth (that part is from Luke's Gospel), or has heard about the three kings from the east that come bearing gifts for the "newborn king of the Jews" (Matthew 2 2).

It is hung with Poussin's "Arcadian Shepherds," from about 1628, in which he depicts shepherds coming across a sarcophagus and deciphering the inscription etched on it, "Et in Arcadia Ego" ("Even in Arcadia, I exist").

As the director of the Chicago Press from 1967 to 2000, Mr. Philipson drew on his own erudition and literary taste in shepherding about 200 books a year into print.

"It's always been easy to conquer Afghanistan," said my companion, Jonathan Bean, the American co-founder of the Great Game Travel Company Afghanistan, which shepherded about 70 Western tourists, including several dozen Americans, through this rugged land last year.

They befriend a taxi driver, Ahmed, who shepherds them about town from appointment to appointment.

Visitors today can pray inside a small cave chapel once used by shepherds, located about 100m past the entrance gate.

Shepherds complain about the amount of paperwork required to graze, milk, and slaughter their sheep, as well as the cost of constant hygiene and food safety controls.

With a salt-and-pepper beard and guarded gray eyes, he looks a bit like an Irish shepherd and smiles about as often.