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Sentences starting with sheep

Sheep and cattle grazing was the main industry; all the young folks tended flocks. [5]
Sheep were dying and dead by thousands round it, and the crows were feasting horribly. [11]

Sentences ending with sheep

He gave a whining bark almost human in its meaning, and threw himself at the legs of his master, pushing him backwards and over towards the road leading upon the bridge, as a collie guides sheep. [11]
The leopard is watching his sheep. [5]
It is made up of sheep. [5]
It soon came to prefer sheep meat to any other food, and by and by it came to prefer the kidney-fat to any other detail of the sheep. [5]
That's Lord Berkeley to a dot, you can see it look at that sheep! [5]
Thou that are the Good Shepherd, have mercy on this wandering sheep! [10]
It is a stuff like tar, and is dabbed on to places where the shearer clips a piece out of the sheep. [5]
We saw the sophomore class in sheep-shearing shear a dozen sheep. [5]
Shepherds with the regulation crooks also were watching herds of sheep. [4]
Moreover, the American people had shown that they were unwilling to make any sacrifices for the permanent betterment of conditions, and as soon as their incomes began to fall off they turned again to the bosses and capitalists like an abject flock of sheep. [9]

Short sentences using sheep

By tending sheep. [5]
They're like sheep! [2]
Just like sheep! [2]
Cattle aren't sheep. [13]

Sentences containing sheep two or more times

Sometimes they clipped off a sample of the sheep, but that is customary with shearers, and they don't mind it; they don't even mind it as much as the sheep. [5]
From no spot in Coniston town is the sunset so fine on distant Farewell Mountain, and Eben's sheep feed on pastures where only mountain-bred sheep can cling and thrive. [9]
The ground appeared bare and ill-treated, like a sheep first shorn; but yet nothing could take away from it the look of plenty, even as the fat sides of the shorn sheep invite the satisfied eye of the expert. [11]
The sweet grass affords good picking for sheep, and besides the sheep the owner raises deer, which are destined to be chased and shot in the autumn. [4]

More example sentences with the word sheep in them

The fact--is, Margaret, you've got a sort of preserve up in Brandon, and you fancy that the world is divided into sheep and goats. [4]
T'sh, you bats, you sheep, what have you in your skulls? [11]
With a glass you can see the cow-sheds about its base, and the contented sheep nimbling pebbles in the desert solitudes that surround it, and the tired pigs dozing in the holy calm of its protecting shadow. [5]
When that door was opened and the prisoners, crowding against one another like a flock of sheep, squeezed into the exit, Pierre pushed his way forward and approached that very captain who as the corporal had assured him was ready to do anything for him. [2]
Next morning he was found hanging dead on one side of the fence and the sheep on the other; in memory whereof the lord of the manor caused this monument to be erected as a warning to all who love mutton better than virtue. [6]
Close to it was a stream, and on its banks a great herd of curious-looking Syrian goats and sheep were gratefully eating gravel. [5]
Our pleasant host was a painter of animals, whom I afterward saw sharing his friend Verboeckhoven's studio, and whose flocks of sheep were very highly praised. [10]
In Sydney I visited a huge establishment where they kill and clean and solidly freeze a thousand sheep a day, for shipment to England. [5]
Outside of Melbourne, Victoria seems to be owned by a handful of squatters, each with a Rhode Island for a sheep farm. [5]
His garden was turned into a corn-field, and the splendid ground-floor rooms, with their mosaics and pictures, are now dirty stables for cows and sheep, and pigs are fed in the rooms that belonged to Hathor and Dorothea. [10]
Did not Mr. Tupper, that sweet, melodious shepherd of the undisputed, lead about vast flocks of sheep over the satisfying plain of mediocrity? [4]
When we took Troyes a calf was worth thirty francs, a sheep sixteen, a French prisoner eight. [5]
They were mixed together, sheep, hogs, horses, mules, and cattle. [5]
Every one wanted to watch the Spaniards, hurrying hither and thither like sheep pursued by a wolf. [10]
Then it appeared to me as if all the sheep and goats over which he had squandered his time were bleating at me. [10]
So it was to kill a deer from the King's forest, or to export sheep from the kingdom.--Dr. [5]
I had no time to label him "This is a horse," and so if the public took him for a sheep I cannot help it. [5]
G. P. "Dost thou spread the sail, throw the spear, swing the axe, lay thy hand upon the plough, attend the furnace door, shepherd the sheep upon the hills, gather corn from the field, or smite the rock in the quarry? [11]
At certain seasons there was an almost continuous procession of herds of cattle and sheep passing to the Eastern markets, and of trains of big wagons wending their way to the inviting lands watered by the Tennessee. [4]
They said that the wide space dates from the earliest sheep and cattle-raising days. [5]
He doesn't want the whole sheep, but only the kidney-fat. [5]
My mind was the sheep which had gone astray. [9]
Before the shearing the sheep looked like the fat woman in the circus; after it he looked like a bench. [5]
One was driving the sheep into the ancient fold, while the other was taking down the bars that kept them out of the new pasture. [6]
From that moment the sheep had begun to gather to the fold--that is to say, the camps--and offer their valueless lives and their valuable wool to the "righteous cause. [5]
The shepherds separate the scabby sheep to protect the flock. [10]
Once I snatched the pencil out of the hand of the freedman as he was writing the sentences, 'The horse neighs, the pig grunts, the goat bleats, the cow lows, the sheep baas. [10]
Now no more the kettle-drum and the ceaseless promenade in showy corridors, but the oaten pipe under the spreading maples, the sheep feeding on the gentle hills of Otsego, the carnival of the hop-pickers. [4]
He went to the hearth, pulled out a burning stick and wanted to burn the little ugly sheep so as only to have pretty white ones. [10]
The shepherd on the great sheep ranges leads an absolutely isolated life. [4]
It bars out the flies, and has healing properties, and a nip to it which makes the sheep skip like the cattle on a thousand hills. [5]
When I see the dogs sleep placidly on, while men, sheep, geese, and all moving things turn out and go around them, I know I am not in the great street where the hotel is, and must go further. [5]
I saw nothing that wore unwoven wool on its back in the neighborhood of the monuments, but sheep are shown straggling among them in the photographs. [6]
Rumor had it that he was sorting out the sheep from the goats, silently choosing those who were to remain on the island and those who were to take part in the campaign. [9]
Scattering the sheep that flecked the velvet turf of the uplands, they stood at length on the granite crown of the crest itself. [9]
All she would take for herself--if the King would grant it--was leave to go back to her village home, and tend her sheep again, and feel her mother's arms about her, and be her housemaid and helper. [5]
In Hungary the suffering is great, and the people are killing the sheep to feed the pigs with the mutton. [6]
She does not stand at the gate of the fold with welcoming arms spread, and receive the lost sheep with glad emotion and set up the fatted calf and invite the neighbor and have a time. [5]
Goats and certain species of sheep, for instance the Ovis cycloceros of Afghanistan (22. [1]
Or is it so that you yearn over the lost sheep, more than over the ninety and nine of the fold? [11]
On their well-cultivated slopes appeared here the white, glimmering walls of a temple; yonder villages, houses, and cottages, like the herds and single sheep that he half concealed by dense foliage. [10]
On one great sheep-run this bird killed a thousand sheep in a whole year. [5]
Of course the sheep will play round the dead lion, and the ass will even spurn him with his hoof so long as he is merely sick. [10]
But with domesticated sheep the presence or absence of horns is not a firmly fixed character; for a certain proportion of the merino ewes bear small horns, and some of the rams are hornless; and in most breeds hornless ewes are occasionally produced. [1]
I see the sheep in hundreds on the far hills of pasturage--sheep with short hair, small and sweet as any that ever came from the South Downs. [11]
But Eben Williams's sheep do not wholly belong to him they are mortgaged--and Eben's farm is mortgaged. [9]
They were like sheep before us as we beat them back into the reeking hatches, and soon the pumps were heard bumping with a renewed and a desperate vigour. [9]
Loaves of various shapes were being drawn out of the ovens-round and oval cakes, and rolls in the form of sheep, snails and hearts. [10]
The sheep was seized and flung down on his side and held there; and the students took off his coat with great celerity and adroitness. [5]
There is no second offence, and there is no gate open to that lost sheep, ever again. [5]
Whoever wants to save a flock of sheep from a burning shed must lead out the bell-wether first--the main thing, I mean--so I will begin with that, though it really comes last. [10]
The "Shepherd of Salisbury Plain" was represented by an old man, who told all he knew and a good deal more about the great stones, and sheared a living, not from sheep, but from visitors, in the shape of shillings and sixpences. [6]
He was to represent Sophia as a shepherdess, it will be remembered, with as many sheep as he could afford to put in for nothing. [6]
Not that the powers of the Empire had permitted debates on most subjects, but there could be no harm in allowing the lower House to discuss as fiercely as they pleased dog and sheep laws and hedgehog bounties. [9]
A giant Irish policeman, who seemed in continual danger of a violent death, and wholly indifferent to it, stood between the car tracks and halted the rush from time to time, driving the people like sheep from one side to the other. [9]
She was more phlegmatic than an Indian; but the tails of the sheep on the Town Hill did not better show the quarter of the wind than the changing colour of Aimable's face indicated Jean's coming or going. [11]
He had taken part in the country festivals-May Day, Plow Monday, the Sheep Shearing, the Morris Dances and Maud Marian, the Harvest Home and Twelfth Night. [4]
A few miles out from Invercargill, passed through vast level green expanses snowed over with sheep. [5]
I offered her one of my sheep, and looked at her through my tears. [10]
Rabbits stamp loudly on the ground with their hind-feet as a signal: sheep and chamois do the same with their forefeet, uttering likewise a whistle. [1]
Let us beware of the tainted sheep which may infect the whole flock. [10]
For the sake of that he had already done many things which he regretted, and the man who steals one sheep out of the flock is followed by others without intending it. [10]
Hence the rising of tailor Ket and others, and the leveling of fences and barriers, and the eating of many sheep. [9]
With the breeds of sheep the number of hairs within a given space and the number of excretory pores are related. [1]
His reputation was not wholly disquieting; he was of the goats, he had sometimes been found with the sheep, he preferred to be numbered with the transgressors. [11]
The Church, the nobles, and the gentry then turned one grand, all-disapproving frown upon them and shriveled them into sheep! [5]
The latter possessed no herds of their own, but the former had many and both sheep and cattle were so terrified by the storm that they struggled against passing through the water, now a foot deep over the road. [10]
And, although the Mukaukas could clearly see through the secondary motives which influenced the Patriarch, he nevertheless believed that Benjamin's office as Shepherd of souls gave him power to close the Gates of Heaven against any sheep in his flock. [10]
The young curate, Mr. Tompkinson, for the most part did the diving; or, in scriptural language, the searching after the lost sheep. [9]
I helped my mother in the household work and went to the pastures with the sheep and the cattle. [5]
Twice during three months had the dread servant of the Palace come and driven off their best like sheep to the slaughter. [11]
Morning found the men huddled like sheep, their hunting shirts hard as boards, and long before Hamilton's gun we were up and stamping. [9]
Then he told me how a man went out one night, many years ago, to steal sheep. [6]
They had not long remembered the time when a grievous disease, like a plague, fell upon the place, and people died by scores, as sheep fall in a murrain. [11]
The dogs looked lazily up, flinched a little when the impatient feet of the sheep touched their raw backs--sighed, and lay peacefully down again. [5]
You need not laugh!--Well, about the sheep. [10]
I must obey, it is true, but it is also my privilege to command, and the thousands who obey me are not sheep and cattle, but brave men. [10]
Every man almost is both a sheep and a goat. [4]
I am greatly indebted to Prof. Victor Carus for having made enquiries for me, from the highest authorities, with respect to the merino sheep of Saxony. [1]
After the half-day in which he was permitted to make due preparations, lay in store of provisions, and purchase a few sheep and hens, hither came David Claridge. [11]
All the forenoon, in the train, I travelled through a country bathed in translucent colours, a country of green pastures dotted over with white sheep, of banked hedges and perfect trees, of shadowy blue hills in the high distance. [9]
And Mr. Swain, in imitation of the high example set by Mr. Bordley, had buildings put up for wheels and the looms, and in due time kept his own sheep. [9]
It was as if an animal painter should compose a group and you could not tell whether it was made up of sheep or rabbits or dogs or foxes or griffins. [4]
The miseries of hunger made the bird willing to eat raw flesh, since it could get no other food, and it began to pick remnants of meat from sheep skins hung out on the fences to dry. [5]
Ye have no hope, because ye see the hawks among the starving sheep. [11]
But Argutis felt his heart sink within him when the philosopher desired him to fetch the pipe his father used to teach the birds to whistle, and at the same time took up the sharp kitchen knife with which Argutis slaughtered the sheep. [10]
Give me a hint when it's to be out, and I'll start the sheep to jumping in the right places"--meaning that he would have an advance review ready for publication in the Atlantic, which was a leader of criticism in America. [5]
I had expected him to disperse the heretics as the wolf scatters the sheep and destroy them at a single blow. [10]
This was granted him by a hasty sign toward a freshly slaughtered sheep, and the old man busied himself for some time behind the steward's back. [10]
It was to help them drive a flock of sheep to the market of the city. [5]
Kochel must take heed, that this leprous soul did not infect the whole flock, like a mangy sheep, or even turn the shepherd from the true pasture. [10]
In any case, he must make for settlement or perish, since he had left behind his sheep and his cow. [11]
Day and night he hears no sound except the melancholy, monotonous bleat, bleat of the sheep. [4]
At least, when he got big enough, he used to get into the pasture and chase the sheep to death. [4]
Every one must have noticed how miserable horses, dogs, sheep, etc., are when separated from their companions, and what strong mutual affection the two former kinds, at least, shew on their reunion. [1]
Even the Egyptians have long known that they obeyed the bidding of Moses and Aaron as the sheep follow the shepherd. [10]
Let us be glad that the lost sheep has come back to us. [10]
He swore to give a challenge to-night, and he cries off like a sheep from a porcupine; his courage is so slack, he dares not move a step to his liberty. [11]
To this latter gentleman, and to Mr. Payan, I owe my thanks for large returns as to sheep. [1]
The wide river flowed below it, and the pastures so wondrously green in the morning sun were dotted with fat cattle and sheep. [9]

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