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The goat lifted his head, and gazed at his enemy with mild interest; he was pasturing now by the roadside, and the foxgloves had proved bitter in his mouth.

From The Queen's Twin and Other Stories by Jewett, Sarah Orne

Therefore Zeus sent into her heart sweet desire of Anchises, who as then was pasturing his kine on the steep hills of many-fountained Ida, a man in semblance like the Immortals. 

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew

The calf was pasturing in one of the glades, while her foster mother was wallowing and splashing down among the lilies.

From Children of the Wild by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

A day or two afterwards I joined Camille at midday on the heights where he was pasturing his flocks.

From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph

Here the infant was found by a herdsman of Polybus, king of Corinth, who was pasturing his flock upon Mount Cithaeron.

From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Bulfinch, Thomas