Here, in Number Two, are my cases that I plead: Family of an officer who fell at Waterloo; Wife of a poor curate stricken down by nervous debility; Widow of a
grazier in difficulties gored to death by a mad bull; et cetera, et cetera.
I knew a nobleman in England, that had the greatest audits of any man in my time; a great
grazier, a great sheep-master, a great timber man, a great collier, a great corn-master, a great lead-man, and so of iron, and a number of the like points of husbandry.
He struggled hard, and suffered much, for some time; but, having a contented disposition, and a good purpose, succeeded in the end; and, from being a farmer's drudge, and a carrier's lad, he is now the merriest young
grazier in all Northamptonshire.
Not so travels the money-meditating tradesman, the sagacious justice, the dignified doctor, the warm-clad
grazier, with all the numerous offspring of wealth and dulness.
"I say then," continued Sancho, "that in a village of Estremadura there was a goat-shepherd -that is to say, one who tended goats- which shepherd or goatherd, as my story goes, was called Lope Ruiz, and this Lope Ruiz was in love with a shepherdess called Torralva, which shepherdess called Torralva was the daughter of a rich
grazier, and this rich grazier-"
A short walk brought us to it, a bleak moorland house, once the farm of some
grazier in the old prosperous days, but now put into repair and turned into a modern dwelling.
She's the daughter of one Isaac Foster, who from a small farmer has sunk into a shepherd; the beginning of his misfortunes dating from his runaway marriage with the cook of his widowed father--a well-to-do, apoplectic
grazier, who passionately struck his name off his will, and had been heard to utter threats against his life.
Her father was a
grazier, her grandfather had been a butcher, but that was all nothing.
He was a sturdy old fellow in a broad-skirted blue coat, made pretty large, to fit easily, and with no particular waist; his bulky legs clothed in drab breeches and high gaiters, and his head protected by a low-crowned broad-brimmed white hat, such as a wealthy
grazier might wear.
Beside the salmon fishery of the Columbia, which is capable of being rendered a considerable source of profit; the great valleys of the lower country, below the elevated volcanic plateau, are calculated to give sustenance to countless flocks and herds, and to sustain a great population of
graziers and agriculturists.
He gave me a long account of some of his adventures, and particularly one when he robbed the West Chester coaches near Lichfield, when he got a very great booty; and after that, how he robbed five
graziers, in the west, going to Burford Fair in Wiltshire to buy sheep.
After such a marriage he would, of course, renounce the best society and take up with the bourgeois class of tradesmen, rich manufacturers and
graziers, who would certainly carry him in triumph as their candidate.