How To Use Shepherd In A Sentence

This pattern of stimulus and response is parallel to the way that a shepherd might train his sheepdog.
The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
Hence the quotation from ‘Shepherd's Hey ’, which is skilfully counterpointed with the ‘Enigma’ theme in bar 25.
The flock receives virtually no historical background from its shepherd - who is believed to be the definitive authority on such matters.
The tour guides shepherded the rest of the group onto the bus.

Two shepherd 's huts provide wood-burning cosiness and an en suite bathroom under the trees. Times, Sunday Times
Through an intricate series of hand gestures and melodic whistles, she quickly garnered its trust and shepherded it into our gated, side yard.
A shepherd watched his flock through binoculars and his sheepdog watched from the back of the quadbike.
Shepherd was of medium height and slightish build with a serious manner but a dry sense of humour.
Rare arable flowers such as shepherd's needle, the cornflower and marigolds thrive in the fallow land, encouraging insects as food for birds.
-- Aka, Mahmoud, Raschid, Selim, they with the bodies of Seti and the faces of Rameses, in their blue yeleks and unsandalled feet -- would go into the desert as their forefathers did for the Shepherd Kings. The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2
Reaper stood calmly with the base of his scythe planted on the ground, looking like a shepherd with his crook.
The night before, a German shepherd mongrel had come into the bar begging for potato chips.
As easy as a shepherdess, which is what bergere means in French. Home Swell Home
And, as if it to prove a point, he shepherded us to the top deck for an aerial, whistle-stop tour of the city away from the thundering road drills.
A hundred years before Bushnell gave his speech, New England gifts were embroidering frolicking lambs and winsome shepherdesses on needlework pictures and samplers.
The child had the nimbleness of a mountain shepherd, and Prometheus — the grace of an almost-god. FIREBRINGER • by Therese Arkenberg
Historic Scotland's have confirmed that visitors will buy a ticket for Maeshowe and will then be taken in groups from the mill to the cairn, with the guides shepherding them across the road.
Close by the stir of the great city, with all its fret and chafe and storm of life, in the desolate garden of that sombre house, and under the withering eyes of relentless Crime, revived the Arcady of old, -- the scene vocal to the reeds of idyllist and shepherd; and in the midst of the iron Tragedy, harmlessly and unconsciously arose the strain of the Pastoral Music. Lucretia — Complete
Shepherd dedicated herself to morphing "from a 'prissy' woman who never exercised to the Guinness Book of World Records 'oldest female bodybuilder," ABC News reports. Ernestine Shepherd, 74-Year-Old Bodybuilder, Inspires, Teaches Fitness (VIDEO)
Jamie Shepherd was well over eighty, yet he was as mentally alert as a man half his age.
The crowd made way for the shepherd and his following, and as they drew near to the raised platform the two white cats, who were Edred and Elfrida, looked up and saw in the middle and biggest chair a splendid, dark-faced man in a kind of fringed turban with two long feathers in it, and in the two chairs to right and left of him, clothed in beautiful embroidered stuffs, with shining collars of jewels about their necks, Father and Uncle Jim! The House of Arden
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
Re: Words your students COULDN'T have written (and thus plagiarized) "shepherded" as a verb, not in reference to sheep. Wired Campus
The flock receives virtually no historical background from its shepherd - who is believed to be the definitive authority on such matters.
Obama is going to need a powerful and influential pointman to shepherd healthcare legislation through the Senate. Senate Staffers Begin Mulling Health Care Reform As Part Of Stimulus Package [UPDATED WITH CORRECTION]
Boucher's shepherdesses are not quite those manufactured in Nymphenburg and Meissen, although their complexions have something of the translucency of porcelain, whilst his herdsmen are streamlined terracotta.
Instead of rounding up villains, John spends his days shepherding black Hebridean sheep and Highland cattle.
So LEMMY show you how to make a stodging hangover meal of MotörHEADbangers shepherd’s pie with Yorkshire puddings. Mosh Potatoes
Crowd management then shepherds the groups, which seem to leave at 15 minute intervals, to the door of the house where one of a fleet of guides greets them and commences the tour.
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
By 1944, the Army accepted only five breeds: German shepherds, Belgian sheepdogs, Doberman pinschers, farm collies, and giant schnauzers.
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
It has many other culinary uses: it can be added to mince for a different-tasting shepherd's pie.
The 40 sheep were kept by a common shepherd with the common herd, were taken every day to the downs and brought back every night to be folded on the arable fields, the rule being to fold 1,000 sheep on a 'tenantry' acre (three-quarters of a statute acre) every night. [ A Short History of English Agriculture
Telling characters apart is made more difficult by the fact that Shepherd sketches a number of individuals with only a few strokes, concentrating his character-building skills on Sasha and the people immediately surrounding her. REVIEW: Sasha: A Trial of Blood & Steel (Book One) by Joel Shepherd
a new one, because the Poem all thro is a simple and faithful picture of English scenery and English character, and the figure of the Farmer's Boy, wherever introduced in the illustrations should be an English figure and not a piping shepherd of Arcadia. Letter 159
Faced with being reacquainted with his wife after nearly a decade, Mark Antony has his way with a passing shepherdess.
The shepherd has penned the sheep in the five-acre field.
A light damask curtain is found to have been saturated with port wine; a ditto chair-cushion has been doing duty as a dripping-pan to a cluster of wax-lights; a china shepherdess, having been brought into violent collision with the tail of a raging lion on the mantel-piece, has reduced the noble beast to the short-cut condition of a Scotch colley. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
We were all branded working class yobs and louts, despite our diverse backgrounds, and were shepherded in and out of grounds across the country by police on horseback as if we were criminals.
Last year, the utility company found a fatberg the length of a Boeing 747 beneath Shepherd's Bush in west London.
In a corner, young Curry Shepherd, his blazer looking slightly the worse for wear, sat meditating on the relative merits of death by garotting or a slow boiling in oil, both of which he contemplated with BMW in mind, the DCSS having called him from a warm bed, next to a warm and loving woman at the dawn's early light. Final Resting Place of The Pen
The certified dogs and their trainers include Mullins and her dog Sampson; Pat Duper and Lizzie, a Dachshund; Elizabeth McGlaune and Cappi, an Australian Shepherd; and Charlotte Heald and Molli, a Border Collie mix. John Harden: Advocacy Center Certifies Four New Therapy Dogs
The first one diagnosed severe arthritis; the second one agreed but switched the seizure medication; the third one diagnosed probable degenerative myelopathy, a nerve disease similar to multiple sclerosis in people, which is common in shepherds. The Last Chance Dog
As he grew up, he lived in the hills surrounding his home tending and shepherding the mountainy sheep.
Dickens then visits a workroom, featuring coloured prints, a china shepherdess on the mantelshelf, carpets, stuffed chairs and an open fire. Bedlam
And I can't count the number of times I've had people recall some they know or themselves being bitted by a German Shepherd Dog, a breed rarely on a BSL list. Pam Spaulding: Thought Provoking Surprises in Breed-Specific Legislation
The shepherd's crook is not for beating the sheep, but for catching hold of them if they go into danger where the shepherd's arm can't reach them.
Also, I had the recent experience of reading Joel Shepherd's C Kresnov novels which are largely the same ideas but much better executed and thus put The Quiet War in diminished light. REVIEW: The Quiet War by Paul McAuley
On the subject of the ghost train, the shepherd was not prepared to make any comment.
With pure-bred pups selling for as much as £500, dealing involving Labradors, Shih Tzus, German Shepherds, Spaniels and other breeds brought in from Ireland and Eastern Europe is a growing, multimillion-pound business.
For example, big purebreds like German shepherds and Labs and Rottweilers, they tend to suffer from hip dysplasia, which is an abnormality that can require hip replacement, and that's pretty expensive. CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2003
As the story goes, nationally televised images of well-dressed children marching into jail, and of protesters being blasted with hoses and attacked by German shepherds, at a time when the United States was engaged in a competition with Communism for the hearts and minds of dark-skinned people in the Third World, made segregation a contradiction that had to be eliminated. A Renegade History of the United States
He told the shepherd to tell his own people that he would use these weapons to regain the Holy Sepulchre.
All these measures penalised traditional mountain agriculture, and especially the shepherds whose right to pasturage was curtailed.
In the US, however, the European pastoral ideal, rooted in Virgil's bucolic visions of an unchanging Arcadia of shepherds and shepherdesses, has been transmuted by the capitalistic impetus.
Recruiting has already begun for this chief executive - with the net being spread wider than members of the Shepherd family.
The solitariness of the job gives shepherding an aura denied everyday employment, and sheep a distinction and poetry not offered other animals.
The shepherd, with his staff, now obliged them to move on; but no sooner did the fluter begin to play again, than his interested audience returned to him. Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match
Mistress Betty promised to send her young friends sets of silk for their embroidery (and kept her word); she presented Prissy with her enamel snuff-box, bearing an exact representation of that ugly building of St. James's; and Fiddy with her "equipage" -- scissors, tablets, and all, chased and wreathed with tiny pastorals, shepherds reclining and piping on sylvan banks, and shepherds and shepherdesses dancing on velvet lawns. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
Dr. Womer shepherded the introduction of etoposide and ifosphamide into the therapy of Ewing sarcoma, which together with standard therapy, is curing 60 to 70 percent of patients with this tumor. Pediatric cancer research
The tea-towel-wearing shepherd totters on stage, blurts his lines and joins an angelic chorus in singing Little Donkey.
An FBI agent testified this week that Shepherd helped a twice-convicted felon launder nearly $141,000 in fraudulently generated bond fees last year, keeping close to half the money as part of the arrangement. Archive 2007-10-01
At about 11 pm on January 24, Mr Shepherd was walking his dog when he passed the youth arguing heatedly with a girl.
It was replaced with a more local, romantic Palestinian nationalism - familiar to Europeans - that reveres the peasant and the shepherd and dreams of reaping the land.
Until now his only culinary boast has been that he makes a mean shepherd's pie. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. SHEPHERD: (as character) Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. 'Great Gatsby' Onstage, With A White-Collar Twist
In old photos of my homeland in Bohemia I see our shepherd, with his broad-brimmed hat and his loden coat, leaning against a tree, knitting a woolen sock.
Small flocks of mangy goats and sheep, shepherded by women in flowing black abayas, forage in the trash.
She was shepherded by her guards up the rear ramp of the aircraft.
Peele's "Arraignment of Paris, a Pastorall" is a court drama in the style of Lilly, intended to flatter the Queen, "poor in action but all the richer in gallant phrases, provided with songs, one in Italian, and with all kinds of love scenes between shepherds and shepherdesses, nymphs and terrestrial gods"; the diction is interesting, because it shows revolt from the prevailing "euphuism," and therefore Peele must be given the praise of first opposing Lilly's affected style. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
We were all shepherds or all sheep or all neither. Christianity Today
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
My gleesome, gentle Harriet! with all the sweetness and affection of shepherd love. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 399, Supplementary Number
But with agricultural advances, shepherds are becoming an anachronism - a throwback to a time long before the advent of the Honda quad bike.
The shepherd pastured his sheep on the village common.
Before the wolves can get him, however, he is rescued by a wise old shepherd and brought up as a helot, one of the aboriginal population the Spartans have enslaved.
shepherded" as a verb, not in reference to sheep. Wired Campus
I learned to feel the land in a new way, to hear its murmurs, to shepherd its resources, to commune with its vastness. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The Bloodhound can track a scent better, a German Shepherd guards better, a Greyhound is faster, and the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel fits much better on your lap than a Timber Wolf ever can!
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.
Sidonie was an 'etagere' covered with childish toys, petty, trivial knickknacks, microscopic fans, dolls 'tea-sets, gilded shoes, little shepherds and shepherdesses facing one another, exchanging cold, gleaming, porcelain glances. The French Immortals Series — Complete
Shepherds, who tended their sheep in the forests, used to beat drums to ward off wild beasts from preying on the cattle.
One day in the mountains I met a young shepherd and we chatted for over half an hour while his scraggy sheep tinkled and grazed.
I looked at the books on the shelves, which I still shared with my father: my music books, of which I was still very fond, among them Twenty Royal Phantasies for Three Viols; my books on painting, one of which, a translation of Lomazzo's delightful A tracte containing the Artes of curious Paintinge, had shepherded my own earliest assays at drawing; and my parents 'volumes of works by the most noble Sir Philip Sidney. The Stream and The Torrent
The German shepherd stood up on his hind legs and looked me in the face. Times, Sunday Times
They have a good time discussing their nicknames, and those of the necessary shepherdesses.
Order a thimble of strong, raki-spiked elliniki coffee and hobnob with black-shirted shepherds listening to Cretan music on Radio Kriti FM at the kafeneion in the central square, then pay a call at the corner house, cluttered with memorabilia, where sweet-voiced Nikos Xylouris grew up. Insiders' guide to Greece
They examine abandoned nests for prey remains, dissect pellets and talk frequently to local shepherds.
The kindly shepherd of the East carries his lambs in his arms to the sheepcot, but the older sheep pass into the fold under his compelling rod. Retrospection and Introspection
Some punches were thrown, and at least four Sea Shepherd crew members were bloodied.
The interest is the interplay between the three main characters, Oedipus himself, Jocasta and her brother Cleon, as the story is unfolded to them by a succession of walk-ons (Tiresias, the messenger, the shepherd, etc) - although the plot covers the whole of Oedipus 'life, the setting of the play respects the unities and takes place over a few hours or possibly days. Lightsecond
Instead, she has always cooked healthy family meals using inexpensive ingredients; stews, soups, hotpots, fish pies and shepherd's pies.
It was the shepherd families I had met, sitting cross-legged in their mountain huts, eating sour milk balls and drinking chai.
He is compared to a loving father, a caring mother, a tender shepherd, a faithful husband, a generous friend.
He is also one of the stars of The Winter's Tale, a production first seen in 2005, which features Bell as a bare-chested Gary Glitter of an Autolycus, who can strip a shepherd down to a G-string while he keeps him talking. She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review
Melrose and Von Behrens honours crowded each other -- here was the thin old silver "shepherdess" cup awarded that Johanna von Behrens who had won a prize with her sheep, while Washington was yet a boy; and here the quaint tortoise-shell snuff-box that a great prince, homeless and unknown, had given the American family that took him in; and the silver buttons from Lafayette's waistcoat that the great Frenchman had presented Colonel Horace Murison of the "Continentals. The Beloved Woman
While the children were delighted by the presence of the smaller breeds like pugs and miniature pinscher, the body language of the grown-ups revealed a liking towards bigger breeds like great Danes and German shepherds.
In that jaundiced reportorial frame of mind, sitting in the press compound at Bristol, desultorily I watched a woman shepherd a young man in a wheelchair onto the gym floor. Mayhill Fowler: Bittergate: the Untold Story Behind the Story that Rocked the Obama Campaign
In contrast, Ezekiel announces a new rule in which the shepherd will genuinely care for the sheep.
The ball pitched outside the off and struck the pad outside the line of off, and yet Shepherd upheld the appeal.
Canine guards like Dobermans and German Shepherds too may have to give up their role as protectors and just remain our pets.
A hope that one day, the dusky, beautiful God of the cowherds and the shepherds would salvage her callously broken dreams.
She is from Mallerstang and has spent ten years shepherding and lambing.
Decrepit old Shepherd Hall is being renovated at staggering expense.
We were in silhouette as the three shepherds with our crooks. The Sun
Today, yurts are only used as temporary shelters by shepherds in remote, seasonal pastures.
Geneva, and those poor Vaudois shepherd-saints, whose bones for generations past Westward Ho!
She was a handsome woman then of course, the prettiest in Shepherds Bush some said.
I learned to feel the land in a new way, to hear its murmurs, to shepherd its resources, to commune with its vastness. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
We have a chow/shepherd mix, and the invisible fence doesn't work for her as the shock doesn't reach her skin through the mass of fur.
I'll never forget her shepherd's pie, cooked with oysters in the old-fashioned style, or her parkin.
Then just after 3.30 pm, a group of people shepherding a woman with a coat over her head appeared at the hotel door and made a dash for a waiting car.
She was shepherded by her guards up the rear ramp of the aircraft.
Consider Marina Wolak and Buck, her one - year - old German shepherd.
Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho: Book summary
The strong, the broad-shouldered -- Aka, Mahmoud, Raschid, Selim, they with the bodies of Seti and the faces of Rameses, in their blue yeleks and unsandalled feet -- would go into the desert as their forefathers did for the Shepherd The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete
His father is in the patriarchal line: he has himself done the cherubs, the shepherd-boys, and now is a grown man, and ready as a warrior, a pifferaro, a capuchin, or what you will. The Newcomes
The coordinator or chair is the lead shepherd of the group.
Upon much pleading a shepherd of the landgrave permitted her to use an abandoned pig sty. St. Elizabeth of Hungary, religious
She's a German Shepherd / Retriever / Chow mix and very nice. Plus she's housebroken and spayed, so that's all taken care of.
In numerous prints donkeys and sheep enslave millers and shepherds; farmers pull ploughs or carry sacks and baskets.
The choir, made up of more than 100 children from four north Manchester primary schools in ankle socks and pigtails and cardies, sing sweetly, if not with the soaring transcendence of the 1929 recording, but their big moment – a re-creation of the occasion when the nymphs and shepherds were triumphantly hymned – is muffled: it needs to stand on its own pinnacle, away from the beguiling story of late love. That Day We Sang; The Crash of the Elysium; The Village Bike – review
When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game.
As the creatures age and their meat toughens they lose up to 70% of their market value, leaving Scottish shepherds facing an agonising wait.
The German Shepherd will usually obey a command which the Doberman might refuse.
A leader... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. Nelson Mandela
Also, they think Tar, our bear-like german shepherd, is the cutest thing that ever lived. My Dead Texan | clusterflock
In many stands, mustards including shepherd'spurse and pennycress are very prominent.
I would have to go back to my notes to be totally accurate here, but of her 'successes' in all her years in the Senate, which I defined as sponsoring and shepherding legislation through to law, almost all [78%] of her success was in re-naming buildings or roads in NY or resolutions to honor specific individuals [resolve to have the Library of Conress accept a statue of Sojourner Truth, for example]. Happy Hour Roundup
He is the one who claims that one day he is going to judge the world, and he is going to separate all mankind as a shepherd separates his sheep from the goats.
I didn't want any thieving, shifty-eyed shepherds near our inn.
Maid Marion is not part of the original tales and likely comes from French pastourelles where she was associated with a shepherd Robin.
The challenge replicates the traditions of the game when shepherds played across country hitting stones with their crooks.
Stephanie is the tutelary spirit, guiding her heart, the reader's, and the heart of place; shepherding them through watersheds of ideas as well as landscape.
In the _praeludium_ to Goffe's "Careless Shepherdess," 1656, quarto, there is a panegyric on them, and some concern is shown for the fool's absence in the play itself, while it is stated that "The motley coat was banished with trunk-hose. A History of Pantomime
The Pope is due to beatify two dead shepherd children who were lucky enough to see the Virgin Mary six times in five months way back in 1917 when they were just 11 and 12 years old.
Certainly when an actual Sea Shepherd ship gets rammed, that is an escalation," Boykoff said. KIROTV.com - Local News
Earlier in the psalm King David compares himself to a sheep following the shepherd.
The giant puff-ball is a feast in itself, and I remember a huge one found by a shepherd of the wolds near Loughborough.
At the far end, that's Bishop Anthony with that funny crooked rotan which is the staff used by shepherds to herd their sheep. The Obnoxious 5xmom
Like the Hermit, the Shepherd makes havock amongst the King's game; but by means of a sling, not of a bow; like the Hermit, too, he has his peculiar phrases of compotation, the sign and countersign being Passelodion and Berafriend. Ivanhoe. A Romance
‘I'm sure the lords and the ladies will be there but we've got a lot of farmers, shepherds and engineers from here who are going too, working people,’ says Ann.
She walked past cages holding dignified German shepherds, alert Dobermans, sleek Labradors and beautiful Golden Retrievers.
From there she found nervy roles and they found her: an explosive pro boxer in "Fighting Words," a stuttering, seizure prone South Londoner in Sarah Kane's "Blasted," and a stammering aphasic in Sam Shepherd's "A Lie of the Mind. Meeting Her Match
Of the 187 whites killed, the majority were convicts working as shepherds and stockmen on isolated properties in remote locations.
A study of 178 dog-bite cases reported to Denver animal control officials in 1991 revealed that German shepherds and chow chows were the dogs most likely to bite.
Martin the shepherd — and he wrung his hands in the bitterness of agony, “the thieves, the harrying thieves I not a cloot left of the haill hirsel!” The Monastery
Others enjoyed the shepherd's pie made with Kentish lamb with sautéed potatoes and a red wine sauce. Times, Sunday Times
Next morning, when the family met at the breakfast-board, they were not a little surprised to hear Wallace recount the adventure of the night; and while Loch-awe promised every kindness to the shepherd, and a messenger was despatched with a purse to Archibald, Edwin learnt from the earl's servant, that his reason for supposing the regent was gone to his room arose from the sight of his bonnet in the outer hall. The Scottish Chiefs
The shepherds prefer dogs with heavy, rough heads and large muzzles.
Mr. Berner introduced Mr. Shepherd to his "punker" friends in Prien, a picturesque town near the Austrian border. U.S. Deserter 'Having Time of My Life' as He Seeks Asylum in Germany
At first the horse was frightened by the engine and was swimming round in circles, but they picked up my son and the sound of his voice calmed the horse as they shepherded it back to the beach.
A memorable phrase nicked from an article in the Jpost by Robin Shepherd entitled “New Era as British Hostility Reaches Crescendo” Archive 2009-07-22
On his instruction, Phil Bardsley shepherded a Cameron Jerome flick-on in to the box just before half-time. Sunderland's hopes of survival hurt by Birmingham and Simon Mignolet
Boucher's cupidons bear the family traits of their elder sisters, Boucher's nymphs and shepherdesses: a plump litheness; long-lashed wide ingenuous eyes; small light-tipped noses.
A shepherd stirred cornmeal flour into boiling water to make the staple mamaliga porridge. Times, Sunday Times
My dad's Jamaican so he made a lot of Jamaican food, and my mum did lots of traditional shepherd's pies and homemade quiches, but I was brought up on some really minging things as well – my mum gave me liquidised tripe when I was a baby. Jessica Ennis: 'I'm so hungry by the end of a heptathlon that I just want to indulge'
The old Chinese doll said this to the Shepherdess and fell asleep.
His essay, ‘The Figure of the Shepherdess in the Medieval Pastourelle,’ is an example of the transition of the figure of shepherdess in medieval French pastourelle.
That pretty little tale of a titlark was but the first of a long succession of memories of his early years, with half a century of shepherding life on the downs, which came out during our talks on many autumn and winter evenings as we sat by his kitchen fire. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
The shepherds pound the ground with their staffs and curse the sheep as they corral them into makeshift pens.
Some praise, however, and from some people, does at once delight and strengthen the mind, and I insert in this place the quotation with which Ld.C. Baron Shepherd concluded a letter concerning me to the C.ief C.mmissioner: "_Magna etiam illa laus et admirabilis videri solet tulisse casus sapienter adversos, non fractum esse fortunâ, retinuisse in rebus asperis dignitatem. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
Christopher Plummer, Lynne Redgrave, and Isabella Rossellini are among those who lend voices to this most adult (and often scatological) story of a middle-aged gay man's discovery of the love he spent his life searching for — in the form of an ill-behaved German Shepherd (or Alsation, as they're also known). The animated My Dog Tulip to screen at the Toronto Film Festival
made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another
Those that have already signed are defenders Mark Hotte, Steve Baker and Paul Shepherd, with Shaun Rennison poised to join them.
Common offenders are annual meadow grass, chickweed, fat hen, groundsel, hairy bittercress, redshank and shepherd's purse. Times, Sunday Times
He also has other breeds, including basset hounds, Salukis, English springer spaniels, Jack Russell terriers, Pekingese and German shepherds. Old dog show Westminster learns new tricks
She was shepherded back home by her boyfriend.
Either human life is ennobled by the dangers and rewards of freedom or we are better off when governments baby-proof reality and shepherd us to the good. Enter Stage Right
Even the fiercest Rottwieler or the stand-offish German Shepherd becomes as timid as a doe when Murugan takes them by the leash.
I also get to try typical English dishes like shepherd's pie which is a kind of ragu with potatoes, "Capello said. Daily News & Analysis
Spring vegetable is also called shepherd's purse.
[604] If this alludes to the parable of the Good Shepherd, and the words katho ` s eipon umin (v. 26) are genuine, it might be inferred that this conversation took place shortly after the other, and, therefore, that the journey to Galilee and back could not have occurred between them. The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement.
There was a small area for common pasturage where a shepherd would look after the town's sheep and cattle.
Crowd management then shepherds the groups, which seem to leave at 15 minute intervals, to the door of the house where one of a fleet of guides greets them and commences the tour.
But what about the many good bishops (you know, all those bishops you haven't heard about, who are struggling to shepherd their flocks in Podunk, Iowa or wherever)?
Its guidelines are the cause of the current turmoil among Canada's cattle farmers, shepherds and some parts of our dairy sector.
Forth they rode then through the frank and up on to the shepherd country, and whereas their horses were of the best, and they had no sumpter-beast with them till they came to Upham, where they must needs have victual, they made but five days of it to the place where the road turned aside from the country of Mostwyke. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Crane's image is flat and unmodulated and nearly fills the field, whereas Homer's Resting Shepherdess has form and depth and exhibits subtle effects of light and atmosphere in the ample background.
I have dreamed about toilet-training him, but it's even more unlikely here than it usually is - the lid's kept closed, or a big old German shepherd drinks out of the toilet.
That's why everyone has a story about a Wise Man corpsing at a key moment, or a showboating Shepherd hogging the limelight.
A good shepherd, St. Bernard used to say, has always bread in his scrip, and his dog in his keeping.
During playtime, the purebred German shepherd will run circles around anyone wearing sealskin and whine for a chew.
As soon as the door was opened, I was confronted by a loathsome oleograph of a Neapolitan shepherdess (that same oleograph used to turn up often in the shops where unclaimed objects from the state pawnshop, the Monte di Pietà, are sold). Home Alone
He sings the praises of George, an elderly goose which has apparently taken a family of young ducklings under his wing and regularly helps shepherd them across the road.
Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.
Another time he painted a scene of the angel appearing to the shepherds to tell them of the Nativity.
The battle for the runners-up spot saw Shepherds demolish Bishopthorpe, with Mick Willsden including a 101 finish for a superb 15-darter.
shepherdess," fed the poultry with Edwin, pulled off her jewelled ornaments, and gave them to Walter for playthings; nay, she even washed off her rouge at the spring, and came in with faint natural roses upon her faded cheeks. John Halifax, Gentleman
And he admits his first show, in Shepherds Bush, London, where Naomi was in the audience, was nerve-wracking.
It is fortunate that her two other dogs - a German Shepherd and Pekinese - are not badly affected and settle for hiding under the kitchen table.
She was clad in a gown that any shepherdess among them might have envied, a pale yellow crepy thing shot through with gleams of gold. Daphne, an autumn pastoral
The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel.
Before the wolves can get him, however, he is rescued by a wise old shepherd and brought up as a helot, one of the aboriginal population the Spartans have enslaved.
Christopher Marlowe demanded in "Tamburlaine," his blood-sodden drama about a megalomaniacal one-time shepherd who had swaggered and slaughtered his way to a vast Asiatic empire in the 14th century. The Greatest of Them All
Pastor Wundt, the shepherd of the Columbus church, was a sincere and ardent Christian, but his bigotry and hard-and-fast orthodoxy made him intolerant .
According to an ancient tale, there was once a Muslim shepherd named Buta Malik who was given a sack of coal by a sadhu.
The third actor was called the tritagonist, and he played the smaller roles in each play, usually messengers and shepherds.

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