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As the young man drank, a cow that had been pasturing in the orchard thrust its head over the wall and lowed piteously.

From Norston's Rest by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

Happily the animals had been pasturing in a direction opposite to that from whence the peccaries came, otherwise there would have been a stampede.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 by Various

Meantime Samdadchiemba arrived with the three camels, which he had been pasturing in a valley of Koukou-Noor. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis

Noddy had been pasturing out the night before her accident, and at sunrise found herself too near the tabooed cliffs.

From Polly of Pebbly Pit by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

Pegasus, the winged horse, had been pasturing meanwhile in the meadows of the Muses.

From Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin