were pasturing
- past progressive of pasture.
Example Sentences
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The window opened into a field of white clover, where some cows and lambs were pasturing drowsily, as I had seen them a hundred times; but now their very tranquillity grieved me.
From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
We met with a few tents of Arabs Zereykat and El Hayb, who were pasturing their sheep upon the wild herbs by the road side.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by Burckhardt, John Lewis
The farmers went about their work and the shepherds were pasturing their flocks as peacefully as though there were no such things as armies and slaughter.
From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.
Our road lay over a low plain between the Djebel Kessoue and the Ledja, in which the Bedouins of the latter were pasturing their cattle.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by Burckhardt, John Lewis
His flight now led him past the back lots of Ramsay's farm, where the cattle were pasturing.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
