How To Use Flock In A Sentence
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If you are lucky enough to have a grassy paddock, it's worth the effort to get a couple of horses or a flock of sheep standing in just the right place.
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A Scottish moor long bore the reputation for being haunted by a phantom flock of sheep, which were always heard "baaing" plaintively before a big storm.
Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
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Cart-horses furbished up for sale, with straw-bound tails and glistening skins; 'baaing' flocks of sheep; squeaking pigs; bullocks with their heads held ominously low, some going, some returning, from the auction yard; shouting drovers; lads rushing hither and thither; dogs barking; everything and everybody crushing, jostling, pushing through the narrow street.
Hodge and His Masters
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It's as if an angel made a divine appointment to show me what a kete of kindness can do for a flock of lost little lambs.
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They dismiss concerns that some of the Africans who flocked to Libya under Mr. Gadhafi's policy of pan-Africanism might be subject to retribution.
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Monks from the various orders in Europe had flocked to England to set up religious houses.
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Her father used to orchestrate proofs about evil as a way of persuading his flock to convert.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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However, it is clear that asbestos flock falls within that definition.
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Don't be friends with bad boys. People think that birds of a feather flock together.
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Unfortunately, these birds fed in large flocks on fruit and other crops, and were shot in huge numbers by farmers.
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They have a smallholding in Devon which is home to a host of animals, including a flock of pedigree Black Welsh Mountain sheep.
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Thousands of people flocked to the Malton Racing Stables Open Day, when 18 stables around Malton and Norton opened their doors to a fascinated public.
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‘On the 18th, we were ‘invaded’ by a flock of over 100 mixed redwings, grackles, starlings, and cowbirds that ate everything in sight and emptied the bird bath in minutes!’
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Three centuries ago, Londoners flocked to the site to sup from the health-giving St Chad's Well.
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All Father Damien could do at first was contemplate the pattern of the flock out of which the great logos of his passion was written.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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The flock receives virtually no historical background from its shepherd - who is believed to be the definitive authority on such matters.
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The volume of nursery-squealing was like flocking starlings; it was a mass table-hop murmuration — with nothing to eat.
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A shepherd watched his flock through binoculars and his sheepdog watched from the back of the quadbike.
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The flock consisted of 20 rams, 44 ewes, and 43 lambs, of which 21 were female and the remaining were castrated males.
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The flock simultaneously screamed and swooned as Way crooned "Cancer," a dirge about a slow death from the title illness, all while backlit with a massive white spotlight and engulfed in a faux smoke haze.
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People have been flocking to the exhibition.
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Papa couldn't butcher their milk cow and he had to keep the surviving roosters and hens to build a new flock in the new year.
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The accusation that religious groups are exploiting parlous economic conditions to add numbers to their flock is a common one.
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But they ended up with a huge crowd as punters flocked into the tent to escape the lashing rain.
The Sun
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The cull of a flock of 9,000 pheasants was under way yesterday after confirmation of a highly infectious bird disease.
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Thousands of sunseekers flocked to Britain's south coast on Sunday to enjoy the last remnants of summer.
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A Newbold church is packing its pews with a new flock of Asian Christians thanks to the multi-lingual skills of the curate.
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One particular fascination to Europeans who flocked to watch her shows was her large, steatopygous buttocks.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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All three buses stopped outside the pool, and each disgorged a tumbling jumbling pile of wee kiddies, clutching their swim-bags and chattering like flocks of birds on a nature programme.
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The country began to show a few donkeys and large flocks of sheep and goats; the muttons have a fine "tog," and sell for three dollars and a half.
The Land of Midian — Volume 1
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He was a humorous and gentle pastor of his flock, a good parson who put up a new poster every week to attract people to come to his church.
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The city's jam full of kids that flock there in the spring and fall, looking for jobs.
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Many years after we find him living in a remote district beyond the great Orange River, leading the life of a "trek-boor," -- that is, a nomade farmer, who has no fixed or permanent abode, but moves with his flocks from place to place, wherever good pastures and water may tempt him.
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
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Think about what you would like to look at out here: tulips, wisteria, song birds flocking to a birdbath?
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I was merrily typing away to friends in some primitive chat room on my IBM XT (super nerd), listening to some music (probably Flock of Seagulls -- nerd++), and watching Back to the Future with the sound off (neeeeerrrrrrrd).
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Sir John Herschel compared it to a surface studded over with flocks of wool, or to the breaking up of a mackerel sky when the clouds of which it consists begin to assume a cirrous appearance.
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
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Each year, just before spring, flocks of fig birds descend on Grafton to build their nests & rear their young.
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For two hours Erasmus Smith, the Boer predicant, argued in vain in behalf of his flock.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)
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There is a black sheep in every flock.
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I could mention the names of several persons whose influence over their flocks was solely attributable to this circumstance.
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Fans of the strange film will stick! upon dev otees of robotic dance song duo Daft Punk (who will be making the small arrange of vague appearance) in flocking to the motion picture Dec 2010 opening.
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He kept on ahead, then, lost in thought, followed by Tartlet, who by his shouts and gestures, kept together the flock of sheep, agouties, goats, and poultry.
Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery
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Pet birds, like parrots, can pose a serious threat to chickens because they can harbor diseases that can be very devastating to a chicken flock
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The volume of nursery-squealing was like flocking starlings; it was a mass table-hop murmuration — with nothing to eat.
Times, Sunday Times
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At Ali Kosh in the southern Zagros Mountains of Iran, an assemblage dating to about 7000 BC that includes hornless sheep is taken as clear evidence of flock manipulation.
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From here you can watch as a herd of buffalo stroll past flocks of pink flamingos.
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Trusting in her intercession with Christ, who whereas He is the "one mediator of God and men" (1 Timothy ii, 5), chose to make His Mother the advocate of sinners, and the minister and mediatress of grace, as an earnest of heavenly gifts and as a token of Our paternal affection we most lovingly impart the Apostolic Blessing to you, Venerable Brethren, and to all the flock committed to your care.
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This attribution is based on the similarities between the depiction of Christ and his flock and other designs that have been documented to Wilson.
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Nearly 6,000 enthusiasts flocked to the Aviation Viewing Park to see the show and a fly-past by the RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, featuring a Lancaster bomber and Hurricane and Spitfire fighters.
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—Thousands of visitors from all over the world are expected to flock this month to Charleston, S.C. for a re-enactment of the bombardment of Fort Sumter, commemorating the beginning of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
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Wonder why these illegal immigrants "flocked" to South Louisiana?
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When she called a shepherd from his flocks in the green valley to build for her a bell-tower so that she might hear, night and morning, the call to the altar, the shepherd built for her in such fashion that the belfry has been the Pharos of Art for five centuries.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
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About 600 guests flocked to the Knavesmire Stand at York Racecourse for the glittering event with live bands, discos, food, casinos and prize competitions.
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The program also encourages producers to select for resistance and to use scrapie-resistant rams in flocks that have risk factors for scrapie.
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The volume of nursery-squealing was like flocking starlings; it was a mass table-hop murmuration — with nothing to eat.
Times, Sunday Times
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The flock receives virtually no historical background from its shepherd - who is believed to be the definitive authority on such matters.
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The flocks often consist of winter visitors, which come here in large numbers from as far afield as Russia.
Times, Sunday Times
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Charles Duvall, a moderate bishop from Florida's panhandle, wrote in an August pastoral letter to his flock that if God had joined them together, he as bishop would work to keep them that way.
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By the end of this term ninety souls were added to the flock.
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Instead of spreading out and confronting their neighbors in hostile face-offs, foraging sanderlings bunched together in tight little flocks.
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Her father used to orchestrate proofs about evil as a way of persuading his flock to convert.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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And they have to do this with the close attention of a flock of hungry seagulls.
The Sun
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Although the spring migration has barely begun, tens of thousands of geese and huge flocks of ducks are already here.
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The crozier is an ornate staff resembling a shepherd’s crook, which is held by bishops to symbolize their role as shepherds of Christ’s flock.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art
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Flocks were never observed crossing into neighboring woodlots.
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If you open up the commons for everyone to graze their sheep, one person is going to go get their whole flock.
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Arriving at Telamon, in Etruria, and coming ashore, he proclaimed freedom for the slaves; and many of the countrymen, also, and shepherds thereabouts, who were already freemen, at the hearing his name flocked to him to the sea-side.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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After many years in the doldrums, cinema groups are reporting a massive increase in takings, as crowds flock back to the big screen.
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In the trees outside, a flock of birds was already warbling a cheerful morning chorus.
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The frozen meat trade also caused changes in the way the sheep farmers managed their flocks.
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And the eager attention with which his flock, asquat on the floor, listened to a very long sermon, showed he had chosen well when he refused to leave them.
High Albania
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Every summer thousands of people flock to the countryside.
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Beneath the cliffs a flock of birds were diving, their hurtling bodies dotting the pale green shallows with circular patches of white foam.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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The scene that confronted us appeared tranquil: a flock of vultures perched, on watch, up in a clump of trees overlooking a large herd of waterbuck browsing on the near bank.
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It was then that Rudolfo, if he wanted to avoid suspicion, would lead his flock down to the villa.
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In the migratory season, waterfowl of different varieties, thousands of sandpipers and shanks and varieties of ducks flock to this feeding ground.
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A great flock of multicoloured tropical birds burst forth from the depths of the jungle, cawing and squawking as they rose ever higher into the air.
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He would become an American or Australian Abraham, commanding like a monarch his flocks and his herds, his spotted and his ring-straked, his men-servants and his maids.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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After the trials, we put colored bands back on males and returned the birds to their flocks to maintain a standardized social setting for all other males prior to their trials.
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Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff.
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Thousands of day trippers flock to resorts on the south coast.
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With readers flocking to their Web postings, execs are finding blogs useful for plugging not just their products but their points of view.
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We double-teamed the flocks, an archer in the lead and the scattergun as backup when the birds took to wing, watching for hunting jaegers and glassing from windswept ridgelines.
The Great Alaskan Cast and Blast
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In fact, the tourists are flocking to Greece in even bigger numbers than ever for this time of the year, trying to miss the Olympic crush in August.
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The throughput of ewe hoggets at the factories has been much higher than was expected, leading to speculation as to the effect on the breeding flock for future years and a likelihood of strong demand for breeding hoggets this autumn.
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The ork ban was to unify the semetic tribes into a seperate people of heardsmen who tended to flocks of sheep and goats.
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Millions of fans, old and new, flocked to see him around the world.
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Professional geologists and amateur rock hunters flocked to the White Mountains, regarded as a superb site for the study of geomorphology.
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The three guards selected exited rapidly to carry out their monarch's wishes, and the four left huddled together like a bewildered flock of sheep.
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The craze that is sweeping America and Europe, sending crowds flocking to landmarks or shops to stage zany gatherings, arrived in Yorkshire at the weekend.
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Modern pesticides have killed the insects that feed vast flocks of starlings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now the famous flock here, the Princes included.
Times, Sunday Times
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At dawn for the past two mornings, great scraggly flocks of rooks mixed with a few jackdaws pour over our base moving from their roosts to the freshly plowed fields.
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Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight.
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The composition of the flocks of birds following the fishing-boats will be changing.
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Their rabbi, a 34-year-old karate black belt, proudly estimates that nine out of ten of his flock don't believe in God.
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Each winter, flocks of birds numbering in the tens of thousands migrate from the northern islands and build their nests there.
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In winter one sometimes finds a flock that has adopted a field of springing green corn to feed in.
Times, Sunday Times
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I CAN'T imagine the fans flocking to this one.
The Sun
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Nestled in the hills of California's San Joaquin Valley, a tranquil pond invites flocks of ruddy ducks, pintails, and shovelers to feed at its shores.
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The UK tag will show the flock number followed by the individual animal number and it is recommended that the tag is placed in the left ear of the animal.
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Instead of spreading out and confronting their neighbors in hostile face-offs, foraging sanderlings bunched together in tight little flocks.
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Adan clutched onto me and screamed, disturbing the flocks of birds resting in trees nearby.
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Let us then feede his flocke with a trebble zeale, expressed in our prayer, preaching and living: Let us make it appeare to the consciences of all, that the top of our ambition is Gods glory: and that wee preferr the winning of soules, to the winning of the world.
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His hand movements alternated between fluttery flocks of birds and rigid Godzilla claws.
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Individual sellers are flocking to auctions in increasing numbers because their properties have remained unsold too long via an agent.
Times, Sunday Times
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A flock of 200 ewes, half of which are Suffolks and the rest Mules, are run with either a Texel or a Suffolk tup to produce fat lambs.
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Normally busy streets and cafes were epty Thursday while crowds flocked to voting stations in defiance of the last-minute call forn ecion boycott by the country's former rebel moveent.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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IN an old toy warehouse in Bristol a film has been made to entertain a devoted flock across the world.
The Sun
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But at the other end of Britain northerners flocked to beaches to bask in hours of glorious sunshine.
The Sun
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This wildness, however, is different from that of the Highlands; for here the mountains, instead of heath, are covered with a fine green swarth, affording pasture to innumerable flocks of sheep.
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Afterward, Raguel slaughtered a ram from the flock and gave them a cordial reception.
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The actual truth lies midway between the "evenness" of Evelyn and the "great hills" of Pepys, and to the man of Wilts that word "Plain" will ever summon up a vision of rolling downs, a short, crisp, elastic turf dotted with flocks, and broken here and there by some crested earthwork or barrow, which rears itself from the undulating Down, and breaks the skyline with its sharp outline.
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Then, just as I made out the outline of a small brown songbird, the whole flock took to the air again and disappeared over a rise.
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Small flocks of mangy goats and sheep, shepherded by women in flowing black abayas, forage in the trash.
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Just about all the staff are very conservative, good church-going types - and I stick out like a purple goat in a flock of white-washed sheep.
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Sally has been organically farming the fine wool from Wensleydales in Stoodleigh, Devon, for 11 years and now has the largest flock in the world.
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They were shivering outside in the rain like biblical shepherds, watching their flocks of celebrity sheep get themselves into all kinds of trouble.
The Sun
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Just now the skies are busy with birds; rooks and crows grouping and re-grouping in ragged formation, starlings showing off their flock skills, and swifts silver-arrowing round and round.
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Alas, as the 1970s turned to the 1980s, the two major corporate publishers, Marvel and DC, turned their backs on the general audience -- especially children -- to saturate the emerging (adult) fan market flocking to comics specialty stores, and since the fan market wanted superheroes and more superheroes, that's what the Big Two, and a remora-school of wannabes, gave them.
The Myth of the Fall of the American Comic Book
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Flocks of executives entered the company from competing firms, bringing different styles, values, and corporate cultures with them.
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Old World sparrows are highly gregarious; they often roost and breed communally and form feeding flocks.
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Herds of deer roam in the open glades; droves of pigs are found in the forest somewhat similar to those of England; and a bird, the ynambu guazu, as large as a pheasant; while quails are seen in flocks in the esteros, -- with snipe, wild pigeons, and other birds.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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Further out to sea, a flock of gannets rested on the surface, digesting their meal.
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The owner of one stall enthused about the rich tradition of cheesemaking he'd inherited, along with his flock of sheep, to a crocodile of rapt schoolchildren.
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So, if you fancy the idea of a prize bull on the lawn or your very own flock of sheep - give him a ring.
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A flock of birds off in the distance scattered away.
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And insofar as left or centrist governments do not debate the limits and / or confines of multiculturalism, or take measures to fully integrate non-Western cultures into the 'European identity' to become fully at home in their host countries, we can expect individuals of all persuasions to flock to the far-right (whom they perceive as having "commonsensical" approaches to these issues.)
Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free
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All about us billowed a profusion of wild beauty; and though for a long time there was nothing alive in sight except a flock of bright pink sheep, my stage-managing fancy called up knights of the round table, "pricking" o'er the downs on their panoplied steeds to the rescue of fair, distressed damsels.
Set in Silver
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Visitors flocked in steamers from Glasgow's Broomielaw to promenade under waving palms.
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There have not been numbers like that this year, but small flocks and individuals are quite widely scattered across the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
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Roman law, flocked into such centres; a tenacious and ambitious race of men issued from among the burgesses, who equally hated the naughtiness of the lords and what they called the lawlessness of the peasants.
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution
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She altered the composition by shifting the house to the right and filling in the left with a bucolic scene of a shepherd and shepherdess with a small flock of sheep.
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A flock of devilfish shapes winged half a mile away.
Three Worlds to Conquer
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As news of the incident spread, hundreds of worshippers started flocking to offer prayers at the place of her self-immolation.
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COPS busted a suspected sheep rustling gang after farmers picked out their stolen flock in an identity parade, a court heard.
The Sun
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There were many times when I envied the moral clarity of those priests as they tended their flocks of young believers, incessantly preaching the demands of sexual purity.
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Counsellors, shrinks and psychologists are flocking to the disaster sites and the homes of grieving relatives to comfort the hurting, the stunned and the overwhelmed, sometimes with a media crew in tow.
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The entire flock or herd will be culled if any are infected.
Times, Sunday Times
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The footage shows the tiny aircraft approach a flock of sheep in a field.
Times, Sunday Times
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The few Persian travellers in the caravansarai and the villagers come flocking around as usual to worry me about riding the bicycle, but the servants drive them away in short order.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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What is the shape of ministry when the wolf is near your flock?
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He was made a bishop in 1677 and sent to Germany to minister to a small flock of Catholics.
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Winter residents include large flocks of ducks, geese, and swans winter in the Sound. In West Haven, Connecticut 8,000 scaup (also called Broadbills or Bluebills) were regularly counted in the 1970s.
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In his first major address to his Christian flock, Pope Adrian launched a scathing attack on the Christian Church, which was rocked by scandals of all sorts.
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They are most likely to be seen in small flocks in birch trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Are you some dullish cattle in the herd or a wise owl in the forest? Look at the mirror, what are you? Mehmet Murat ildan
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sermonette" by the pastor of this youthful flock.
Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party
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He was the congregator of those great spirits who presided over the resurrection of learning; the Lucifer of that starry flock which in the thirteenth century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world.
English literary criticism
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One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
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Each year, thousands of tourist flock to Robertstown to enjoy the natural amenities in the area, with most visitors taking in a trip on the barge along the Grand Canal.
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Hundreds of radical students flocked to Sian.
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Most of it is grazed by flocks of sheep, goats, camels and cattle, often causing severe damage to vegetation.
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A flocking birds simulator originally designed for a projection effect in the contemporary ballet, Zugvögel, migratory birds in English, choreographed by Jiří Kylián, premiered in the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Germany in May 3, 2009.
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No wonder was it that when in the war between the states leaders were needed to take command of the raw recruits which flocked to the standard of General Sterling Price to form the Missouri State Guard, he was selected for the command of a regiment from which he rose by rapid promotion to a major generalcy.
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THE filthy weather and grey skies have had us flocking to book holidays.
The Sun
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The idea of punt gunning is to sneak up on rafted ducks and geese in a low profile boat and shoot the flock on the water at about 40 yards with a lot of shot from a very big gun.
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I finished down an arched spine of a ridge, village in view, and sloe tree scrub and birch, menacing fly agaric funghi, and a flashing flock of goldcrests.
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It is difficult to imagine we are the same people who used to flock to see the guilty or the innocent burned alive, hanged, drawn and quartered, drowned or garroted.
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And so the sheep wanders from the flock and follows its own course.
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Swifts will often mob aerial predators such as raptors if they approach a flock.
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They say working in 15-year cycles gives no incentive to invest in their flocks of sheep.
The Sun
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A gentleman decked out in silver spandex, moonboots and a sequined tank top was too tired and sweaty from dancing to talk but there was plenty of Ms. Bartsch's old flock that would ― about their hopes for nightlife, now that $1,200 bottles of Cristal might be a harder sell.
Move Over, Kids! Original Club Mama Susanne Bartsch Has Still Got It
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So, it appears it would be illegal for me to restrain my dogs from bolting if a bird has fallen in the deeks and the flock is circling back.
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They remained centres of the devotion of their flocks, and the "curates," hastily gathered, who took their places, were stigmatised as ignorant and profligate, while, as they were resisted, rabbled, and daily insulted, the country was full of disorder.
A Short History of Scotland
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My first plover warden shift of the season and a flock of them and two sanderling friends shows up fresh from migration.
Piping Plovers and Friends
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Much of the undergrowth is dense and difficult to penetrate, but the possibility of following free-roaming flocks is still relatively good, because walking paths criss-cross the area.
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It is carefully managing its antibiotics-free flock through bio-security, associated innovative nutrition practices, and training.
Sunil Chacko: Time for Antibiotics-Free Animal Industry Practices
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There appeared to be an unusual number of peacocks about the place, and I was making some remarks upon what I termed a flock of them that were basking under a sunny wall, when I was gently corrected in my phraseology by Master
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And at the dining hall of the Games Village, they flocked for an evening of lip-smacking fare and oodles of fun.
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They came in flocks to see the procession.
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The cold Benguela Current sweeping northwards supports the best fishing on the southwest coast of Africa, and in season South African anglers flock here to catch steenbras, galjoen and blacktail.
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Consumers instead flock to unauthorized sites offering unfettered music for free.
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This was a purely agricultural village, growing acres of corn and tending large flocks of sheep.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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This time though, he was not only accompanied by his adjutant but by a flock of intelligence officers.
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It rarely happened that people in the town flocked to the theatre to see the new opera.
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Throughout the period November to February flocks of 500 or more are regularly present.
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People came in flocks to see the new hydraulic power station beside the dam.
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And indeed at La Ferme, where authentic farmyard smells permeate the eating area, diners can look down through the glass panes in the floor onto the flock of mountain sheep, a carthorse and a flock of hens.
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They thrived by dint of feeding in high trees and by moving around in large flocks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The image of a herdsman quietly guides the initial attempt to define the statesman, who is identified as herdsman of the human flock.
Method and Metaphysics in Plato's Sophist and Statesman
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The brolga has a taste for dancing; flocks of this bird may be seen solemnly going through quadrilles and lancers -- of their own invention -- on the plains.
Peeps At Many Lands: Australia
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If Sri Sri is in residence, he addresses his flock; when he's not in town, the congregation listens to tapes of him speaking.
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Each poultry keeper will have to accommodate the size of his flock to his own particular circumstances, being careful not to overdo or underdo too far.
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In normal times, the Moores work the farm in two separate units, producing winter oats and winter wheat as well as fattening 600 head of cattle and a flock of store sheep.
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Fear of litigation, an admittedly necessary concern, trumped a bishop's duty to his priests and to his flock.
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People flocked out to hear the chosen band and to either sit and enjoy the music, or boogie the night away.
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The EPA sanitization is because sheeple really are sheeple, and the Gubbermint don’t want to spook the flock.
Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist
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We tended a small flock of sheep for our landlord.
Christianity Today
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It's astonishing in volume and tone, like listening to a huge flock of sheep.
Times, Sunday Times
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The priest warned his flock against breaking God's law.
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Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight.
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Sales fever gripped Salisbury as thousands of shoppers flocked to the city this week, to snap up post-Christmas bargains.
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I was making some remarks upon what I termed a flock of them, that were basking under a sunny wall, when I was gently corrected in my phraseology by Master Simon, who told me that, according to the most ancient and approved treatise on hunting, I must say a MUSTER of peacocks.
Old Christmas
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You learn to wipe caked crap off of their backsides otherwise, it can become plugged up and they die, sometimes you hold them until they fall asleep in your palm, and you generally just fall in love your flock in those first few days.
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Overnight, state banks drastically raised interest rates, and people flocked to deposit their hoarded cash.
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` ` The Colonel's in an unco kippage, '' said Mrs. Flockhart to
The Waverley
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Visitors flock there to see the lights gently altering on the facades of the 500-year-old buildings.
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The flock blethered at the home corral, and old Pedro Ruiz, hobbling out to let them in, stood a long time at the bars wondering what had become of Felicita.
Spring o' the Year
