How To Use Shepherdess In A Sentence
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In it the shepherdess is standing by her flock engrossed in her knitting.
On Sewing
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The presumption people have when they see a toile is that it's going to be full of shepherdesses leading sheep up garden paths and they expect it to be rather on the twee side.
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December eighth day that day because of hunger and fatigue Zaidao street, was a shepherdess found with large gruel saved so that he Dachedawu. Enlightenment and Buddha.
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The people we met were like the cast from an old faery tale: bearded woodcutters sat chatting in clearings of the forest; cowherds and shepherdesses wandered past with their flocks, shy and silent.
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The original libretto is lost, although it is known that the ballet featured Cupid, a game of blind man's buff, and a trio of shepherdesses, one of whom is disguised as a man.
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I call our shepherdess Honorine even though perhaps not infallibly naming the sociable soubrette who might, with all her gay bold confidence, have been an official inspectress in person, and to whose easy care or, more particularly, expert sensibility and candour of sympathy and curiosity, our flock was freely confided.
A Small Boy and Others
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As I write there comes vividly to mind a chilly, mid-August morning in the Arizona plateau country, where two Navajo shepherdesses left their straggling flock to share in the warmth of our camp fire and to pass the time of day.
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The shepherdess has a robe of fairest crimson, and her flower-crowned locks in tint more nearly approach to the blond cendre which distinguishes so many of Palma's donne than to the ruddier gold that Titian himself generally affects.
The Earlier Work of Titian
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Subsequently, Pastorella is revealed to be the offspring of her secret marriage with Beallamoure, a revelation that suddenly ennobles the socially hazardous bond between the shepherdess Pastorella and the courtly Calidore.
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Two days after, when I looked at it again, the shepherdess's attire was changed -- she had on no longer the pea-green dress over the salmon, but a _salmon_ dress over a _pea-green_ slip.
Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls
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The one thing above all others in that room that recalled 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.
Fromont and Risler — Complete
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Nero's Domus Aurea was one; Marie Antoinette's life as a shepherdess another.
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She had been a shepherdess and used to rattle the gate to call her sheep home.
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As easy as a shepherdess, which is what bergere means in French.
Home Swell Home
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Indeed, this exhibition falls fast on the heels of Victoria Crowe's paintings celebrating the life of a Scottish shepherdess.
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One day, Goat Leg Billy asked him to be allowed to get married with the Shepherdess, the Chinese doll nodded his head and said yes.
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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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The central panel, depicting a shepherdess, is framed by borders of flowers and animals.
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The style in question has nothing to do with nymphs and shepherdesses, but instead with 60s pop and up-to-date optimism.
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Robin Hood invites the shepherds and shepherdesses of the Vale of Belvoir to a feast in Sherwood Forest, but the feast is marred by the arts of the witch Maudlin, aided by her familiar, Puck-Hairy.
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Yet on ballads, many decollete ladies, described as merchant's daughters, milkmaids, cook maids and shepherdesses, appear in the guise of royal queens and mistresses, dressed in expensive slays, gowns and stomachers.
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The other woman, who had the wiry frame and weatherbeaten face of a mountain shepherdess, said, `You stay here.
KARA KUSH
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Peasants and shepherdesses make a charming ensemble.
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Cowherds and shepherdesses wandered past with their flocks, shy and silent.
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After a moment's contemplation, he draped it round the shoulders of a china shepherdess.
STAGE FRIGHT
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Mr. Crisparkle at such times, regardful of the slumbers of the china shepherdess.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Thus, while she will produce sensitive studies of the everyday life of the shepherdess, in her larger canvasses Crowe will show us a Roman coin alongside the moon, man-made artefacts of all ages transposed with natural objects.
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Outside on a flat grassy plain, shepherdesses in long skirts and satin-covered sun bonnets are moving other groups of white goats.
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We stayed in the magnificent Hotel Trianon which is situated in the grounds of Versailles on the spot of a long-abandoned farm where Marie-Antoinette used to play at being a shepherdess.
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The people we met were like the cast from an old faery tale: bearded woodcutters sat chatting in clearings of the forest; cowherds and shepherdesses wandered past with their flocks, shy and silent.
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And Annette used to have to get herself up like an old-time shepherdess.
DISPLACED PERSON
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She has always wanted to be a shepherdess… despite suffering from Spina Bifida and despite the fact that her collie dog was afraid of sheep.
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He says he found me with goats and sheep — that I was some kind of shepherdess in the jungle!
African Dreamer
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Suddenly, she decides to spend her time as a shepherdess caring for her own flocks and now everyone can see her.
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You are, after all, my darling shepherdess who cries wolf.
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The funniest was of Phoebe, the young shepherdess who had fallen in love with Rosalind in her male guise.
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Diaghilev celebrates the pure, youthful love of a shepherd and shepherdess that triumphs over the wickedness of pirates who kidnap Chloe and the seduction of Daphnis by worldly older woman, Lykanion.
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The idle pleasure of the shepherd and shepherdess would have reminded seventeenth-century viewers of the human condition in an uncultivated environment.
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Don Quijote declared her wise and innocent of the dead man's death and with his hand on his sword instructed that no one should follow her; but instead honor her wish to be left alone with the shepherdesses and her flock.
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With 4500 seats, it represented the acme of movie-going, with double seats for courting couples, uniformed doormen and waitresses in two restaurants dressed as Dresden shepherdesses.
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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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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
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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.
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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.
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The old Chinese doll said this to the Shepherdess and fell asleep.
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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.
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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
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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
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They have a good time discussing their nicknames, and those of the necessary shepherdesses.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Dickens then visits a workroom, featuring coloured prints, a china shepherdess on the mantelshelf, carpets, stuffed chairs and an open fire.
Bedlam
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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,
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Faced with being reacquainted with his wife after nearly a decade, Mark Antony has his way with a passing shepherdess.
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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.
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A hundred years before Bushnell gave his speech, New England gifts were embroidering frolicking lambs and winsome shepherdesses on needlework pictures and samplers.
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As easy as a shepherdess, which is what bergere means in French.
Home Swell Home
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I have seen one of this man's works that showed a shepherdess in the mountains of Norway.
The Beautiful Art Of Hans Dahl (1839-1937)
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Lucy felt sure that this girl must be a shepherdess - or perhaps a fish-herdess and that the shoal was really a flock at pasture.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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I went to the loo on the fourth floor of her office building, and I found a whole pile of these cool white paper bag thingies, each with a picture of a shepherdess in a big frock on them.
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She was a self-employed shepherdess who had been driving the tractor for 10 years in her job.
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The craze for the pastoral even reached the Court, where queen Marie-Antoinette dressed herself and her courtiers up as shepherds and shepherdesses.
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The shepherds and shepherdesses, distressed with the cold, sought Krishna for refuge.
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One day, Goat Leg Billy asked him to be allowed to get married with the Shepherdess, the Chinese doll nodded his head and said yes.
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In the country pursuits section there will be falconry displays and terrier, beagle and foxhound demonstrations including one by shepherdess Katy Cropper, of BBC's One Man and his Dog.
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For starters, Joan the humble shepherdess is a romantic fancy.
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Dulcinea, the ballerina role, appears in many guises (devoted servant girl, proud shepherdess, guardian spirit, damsel in distress, Madonna).
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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.
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He could nod his head up and down, and he insisted that only he had the right to make decisions about the Shepherdess.
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Dianne, who is a shepherdess on the family farm, told the hearing: ‘We moved forwards towards the crossing and paused before setting off.’
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Many 17th Century stumpwork pieces depict fanciful pastoral scenes, with very well dressed shepherds and shepherdesses being central figures.
BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
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The hangings were of Rouen cretonne imitating old Normandy chintz, and the Louis XV. design — a shepherdess, in a medallion held in the beaks of a pair of doves — gave the walls, curtains, bed, and arm-chairs a festive, rustic style that was extremely pretty!
Pierre And Jean
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We're at a 'sheepy party', greeted in the foyer by the cast dressed as shepherdesses or as sheep.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Boucher, Olympians, dryads and shepherdesses are interchangeable.
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The most important subjects are pastoral scenes of shepherdesses, landscapes, and animals; historical, literary and romantic themes; and themes inspired by antiquity.
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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