How To Use Shorn In A Sentence

She looks terrible, shorn of all her beauty and dignity.
We see these victims everywhere shorn of power -- weak, nerveless, backboneless, staminaless, gritless people, without forcefulness, mere nonentities because they have ceased working. Pushing to the Front
It can't: it is crammed with lovers packed in tight, the details smashed flat, extraneous facts shorn away to save space, mangled and compressed to the point of incomprehensibility and all beyond counting or collating.
At another time it might have been a pretty journey, the hills just turning the colors of pumpkin and hay and pomegranate and the skies depthless and clear, but now everywhere one looked most of the trees had been felled for fuel and there was only a hazy, oppressive brightness refracted from the shorn hillsides. Excerpt: The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
Norwegian royalty is shorn of regalia but is safety ensconced in respect.

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Wolf ended her life in her beloved Berlin, doubly exiled in her own country and shorn of her faith, left only with Was bleibt – what remains, the title of the account of being under surveillance by the Stasi that she wrote in 1979, and that aroused considerable controversy when published in 1990. Christa Wolf obituary
“But we were thrown before its beauty unprepared, unshrived, unshorn.” Angkor Wat Book Review - A Glimpse of a Bygone Era | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context
If the curtain is dirtier , usable dishcloth dips in the scour that leave cleans some of Wen Shuirong, hartshorn of usable also a few is brushed.
Unlike other luxurious wools such as cashmere and pashmina, shahtoosh is produced from the fine, inner hairs of the Tibetan antelope - which cannot be shorn from the animal.
-- I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him -- an atrior cura at his tail -- and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous, Jack-indifferent cry of "Clo ', clo'!" who knows what woeful utterances are crying from the heart within? Catherine: a Story
‘We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom,’ he said in remarks that were shorn of all but the most glancing references to the dominant political issues of the day.
Deprived at one blow of most of his precedents, "shorn" -- as the Breach of Promise Reports puts it -- "of its usual attractions," FIBBINS's speech becomes an impotent affair. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891
But first the American sheeple will have to wake up, object to being "shorn", and pick up their pots and pans! Dissident Voice
Today, shorn of its Odeon cinemas and Pinewood studios, the entertainment group's tie with the film industry is limited to its Deluxe film processing unit.
Shorn of the title montage of New York City street scenes, Coffee coffee and more coffee
He is seen with full unshorn hair in his later prison pictures and had expressed, as last wish before being hanged, the desire to get "amrit" from Panj Pyare including Randhir Singh and to adorn full 5 k's. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
A young man, tan-skinned, with his hair shorn down to a round fuzz, opened the passenger door.
His ankles are reddened by sand-flea bites, his head has been shorn to indicate his reduction in status.
Never heard a gemshorn blown in anger? Times, Sunday Times
The heavy fleece shorn from these lambs is of exceptional quality and very, very soft.
Go for wool and come home shorn.
Athene, as they say, took the form of Deiphobus for the sake of Hector, and the unshorn Phoebus for the sake of Admetus fed the trailing-footed oxen, and the spouse us came as an old woman to Semele. Is There Evidence For Mythicism?
During its 1864 season 41,000 sheep were shorn, providing work for an army of musterers, shearers, woolclassers, packers and teamsters.
Hartshorne eventually became a long-term emeritus professor at Austin and lived there until his death on October 9, 2000. Charles Hartshorne
Shorn of the ostentatious nostalgia that afflicts too many period films, The House of Mirth is a bracing, cleanly wrought spiral of a film, a chiller in the true sense of the word.
The ex-President, although shorn of his official powers, still has a lot of influence.
Thus, one of Hartshorne's preferred definitions of God: “the self-surpassing surpasser of all” (Hartshorne 1948, 20). Process Theism
But the best revelations come when Rock examines the sodium hydroxide relaxer that turns nappy heads silky, and the origins of the shorn human hair that is "weaved" into shorter tresses to create the illusion of length and fullness. Reader - MassLive.com
Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal, Prop Styling by Anne Cardenas THE BAKER'S TOOLBOX | For recipe booklets, hartshorn baker's ammonia, pure anise oil and the widest and finest selection of reproduction springerle molds and cutters, go to House on the Hill (houseonthehill.net) and Springerle Joy (springerlejoy.com). Wunderbar Cookies
Shorn of its string arrangement, Drake's incredible guitar playing and effortless melodic sense are all the more apparent.
According to my sources, the best cure for the bite was spirit of hartshorn.
People have got the impression that the merino is a gentle, bleating animal that gets its living without trouble to anybody, and comes up every year to be shorn with a pleased smile upon its amiable face. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
The new Commons will be smaller than the old 659-seat House, which has been shorn of 13 Scottish constituencies because of devolution.
Shorn of his power, the deposed king went into exile.
It is well known that the wool of sheep dying of disease, if it had not been shorn from the animal while living, and also skins, if not thoroughly prepared by scouring, are liable to the effects described in this passage. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The ancient ramshorn curl of a great horn sounded its low, shuddery demand for attention. The Fate of the Phoenix
We'll take the ramshorn crooks out of this town in about two days, when we get started. Heart's Desire
I am delighted to announce that there is now legal protection for the lesser whirlpool ramshorn snail. Times, Sunday Times
Shorn of so much of the theatricalism of ordinary stage performances, there was reality and charm about this that warmed the spectators into frequent bursts of spontaneous enthusiasm which were as draughts of elixir to the players. Seven Miles to Arden
A river hunted for a way to the sea, and found it over a forty-foot fall; sheep looked nervous as they picked a safe way to unshorn pastures; and here, a few thousand Humpers tended their sheep and scratched vegetables from the stony ground and lived as independent a life as human beings can live when they still need human company and still must eat. Enjoyment
The shorn cliff top gives way to longer grasses, which droop over the path.
Recently shorn, these offspring of mules crossed with Suffolk and Texel rams will replace ewes too old for breeding and destined for the abattoir. Country diary: St Mellion, Tamar Valley
`Sure, madam, it smells worse than hartshorn or sal ammoniac. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Justin Bieber, he of the strategically mussed coif, has shorn his locks. Justin Bieber gets a new haircut. Cue the screaming tweens in 3, 2, 1 ...
He did not sleep; but something short of a dream came into his alert and wakeful mind some while before dawn, as though the sun was rising before its hour, a warmth like a May morning full of blown hawthorn blossoms, and a girl, primrose-fair and unshorn, walking barefoot through the meadow grass, and smiling. A River So Long
When his wife saw this, she said, "I have no occasion for thee, now thou are become pegless as a eunuch, shaven and shorn;" and he answered her, saying, "All this comes of thine ill-omened counsel and thine imbecile judgment. Arabian nights. English
After years of operating an autocratic regime, he faces the prospect of being shorn of his dominant position should the banks succeed.
Last year's ewe lambs that would have been away - wintered and are now shearlings (shorn once), will now enter the flock to replace both the draft and the worn ewes.
The best of them all was surely broadcloth, which in the eighteenth century was a superfine grade of woolen cloth that was fulled, or shrunk, napped, and shorn so that it was the consistency of felt but with a smooth surface.
It knelt in the centre of its pen with three woolly, unshorn friends, contentedly chewing the cud.
They are easily recognised by the symbols of their religion: the turban, unshorn hair and beard. Times, Sunday Times
Then she was ordered to change her clothes and sweep up her shorn tresses before the house was locked and she was told she would be kept inside until her bruises subsided.
Once upon a time Hillary deliberately cultivated an unpampered, unshorn and earthy look -- but in time she realized this particularly unstylish presentation wouldn't one day earn her the right to boss around White House employees and later win leadership of the free world. Bill Katovsky: Hillary as Little Miss Sunshine
Ms. McAndrew is used to doing business with hikers down from the trail who arrive in town with gaunt faces, mud-stained boots and unshorn locks.
The ex-President, although shorn of his official powers, still has a lot of influence.
Much of the land was intensely cultivated, a dry quiltwork of barley fields and hayfields and pastures shorn down to the dirt by goats and sheep.
In seconds the wound is closed, the rest of the sheep is shorn, and the bloody wool cast out a nearby window.
Never mind if the hill is shorn of dense greenery.
Now they seem to share a commonality as anonymous and comradely as the stream of old men, similarly shorn, walking blink-eyed from the Lind Road barber shop into the autumn sun.
Shorn of their roots, the leaves can be plunged briefly into boiling water then either into a pan of hot butter and black pepper or shaken with some walnut or olive oil.
The name Buckthorn is from the German _buxdorn_, boxthorn, hartshorn. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
How now, lady, why hast thou arrayed thee in sable weeds instead of white raiment, and from thy fair head hast shorn thy tresses with the steel, bedewing thy cheeks the while with tears but lately shed? Helen
She looks terrible, shorn of all her beauty and dignity.
Ay, him they call Tamerlane, because he is shorn of two toes. The Prince of India — Volume 01
Each picks the worst sheep, i.e. that with the least wool upon it, that happens to be at hand at the time, trying to put the best-woolled sheep, which are consequently the hardest to shear, upon someone else; and so the heaviest-woolled and largest sheep get shorn the last. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
But as the boy reached the age of maturity and the boyhood locks were shorn from his head, she balked at the prospect of yielding the throne to this half-royal heir.
Romano-British innovations in land-use went hand-in-hand with new tools: shears also occur for the first time as new breeds of sheep are shorn rather than plucked.
Here is a thought Hartshorn, these "footsoldiers" as you call them pay your wages. Supt. Hartshorn on the great unwashed being a tad miffed by Gordonomics.
The steam engine with six bogies arrived from Shornur, through a metre-gauge track.
She remains comically naive even when she is put in a straightjacket and has her hair shorn.
DARJEELING: If Bimal Gurung has his way, Darjeeling will soon be just another hill town shorn of its character and charm. WN.com - Articles related to Starting Tuesday, it will be illegal to text and drive
As his hair is shorn off, the young boy feels he is moving into a new stage.
Inserting Lancashire on a showery day which began 10 minutes late and had 38 overs shorn from it, Warwickshire's pace bowlers gave the ball every opportunity to swing and remained on the attack even when Lancashire hurtled to 63 for one in a dozen overs before lunch. Lancashire v Warwickshire | County Championship match report
It includes bogus demographics, minor details shorn of context, calumnies against the victims and remorseless fakery. Times, Sunday Times
Ellipses must not be used to omit relevant material; interpolations must be aids to clarity of exposition and not editorial devices; passages must not be shorn of context that would alter their meaning.
As before, however, Hartshorne's axiology is ultimately theocentric in character. Charles Hartshorne
You have to say foreperson," corrected Megan Gerrity, a blue-eyed twenty-year-old with coarse red hair, shorn short. ROUGH JUSTICE
Blackthorn blossom foams along the sides of shorn hedgerows but grows unchecked with willow catkins and flowering gorse bushes in neglected thickets which shelter the returned chiffchaff and blackcap. Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
Fran, in particular, is a monstrous delight; watching her being shorn of her lousy dreadlocks was laugh-out-loud schadenfreude television.
The unsettling Self-Portrait with Braid was painted the year after Frida had shorn her hair following the divorce.
It was of homespun, a mixture of wool and flax called linsey-woolsey, and out of this the dresses of his wife and daughters were made; the wool was shorn from the sheep, which were so scarce that they were never killed for their flesh, except by the wolves, which were very fond of mutton, but had no use for wool. Stories Of Ohio
His ankles are reddened by sand-flea bites, his head has been shorn to indicate his reduction in status.
Given the choice of non-free with DRM, etc and free, I see only one choice for educators, and for the masses ignorant of how they are being controlled, "milked" or "shorn. Join the Free Software Foundation
The price of shares will plunge to zero and, shorn of its source of capital, the enterprise is forced to fold.
Finally, only one outward symbol remained to remind him that he had been set apart for a special work of deliverance for his people----his unshorn hair.
The art students, who were here making sculptures, have gone, there is a shearing team in the shearing quarters now, and sheep are being shorn in the shearing shed.
The former MP said the SNP's plan for a referendum Bill, which offers a say on degrees of enhanced devolution, will leave Scotland "shorn" of the power needed. Undefined
From the Dwarves, the Deep Ones of the Greshorns, the oldest folk of the earth.
To clear Wine: — Take half a pound of hartshorn, and dissolve it in cyder, if it be for cyder, or Rhenish-wine for any liquor: this is enough for a hogshead. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
They came to get their passports stamped, for the entertainment, to see a sheep being shorn, throw a gumboot or three, place a bet on the Whanga Cup, brave a bath full of eels, and sample the local fare.
They are mostly shorn of anything ‘pop’ like and are naked with deep bass, echoed drums and a variety of trebly horns, guitars and what sounds like phasers looped in from twenty planets away.
The shearing board should be kept free of locks and must be swept after each animal is shorn.
So different from that rascal Woods, who treated some of the men as if they were dogs, and allowed many a poor sheep to go shorn to its pen cut and bleeding from overhaste, with never a word of remonstrance. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
Shorts is also in the same family of words, conveying the idea of pants that have been cut, shorn, or shortened. The English Is Coming!
Over the last couple of years, Thomas Amrein and colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have shown that the culprit is the traditional leavening agent: not familiar baking soda or powders, but ammonium bicarbonate, which is sometimes called hartshorn because it was originally obtained by heating deer antlers.
Although Hartshorne and Whitehead are both political liberals, Hartshorne is, despite his view of panpsychist reality as thoroughly social, more of a libertarian liberal and Whitehead more of a redistributive liberal. Charles Hartshorne
Shorn of their six month fleeces at the Perth Royal Show, these four 12 month old goats had a winning fleece value of $190.
His frames are bare, his narrative is shorn of pretension.
If you get seriously interested in panentheism, I recommend Charles Hartshorne's "Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes. David Ray Griffin: IDist
Much of the land was intensely cultivated, a dry quiltwork of barley fields and hayfields and pastures shorn down to the dirt by goats and sheep.
Since the restoration, and what may be called the disestablishment of Buddhism, the shrine of Iyeyasu has been shorn of all its glories of ritual and its magnificent Buddhist paraphernalia; the 200 priests who gave it splendour are scattered, and six Shinto priests alternately attend upon it as much for the purpose of selling tickets of admission as for any priestly duties. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Shorn of its technicalities, the essence is this: You place electrons in a magnetic trap.
unshorn sheep
When her hair is shorn so that her forehead may be branded, she will cry your twenty-first century tears.
In the portraits, sitters appear shorn of pretense and disguise.
She alleged she was kept in solitary confinement on occasions, deprived of food and sustenance, had her hair shorn and was stripped of her clothes on a number of occasions.
A collection of stoneware bottles stood by the lamp, a ramshorn snuff mull, banded in silver, next to them. Dragonfly in Amber
And as of today I have had my hair shorn down to a more manageable length again.
During its 1864 season 41,000 sheep were shorn, providing work for an army of musterers, shearers, woolclassers, packers and teamsters.
Possibly the most significant of all was Koorana's domination of the Shearing Class, in which a team of four goats are shorn and their fleeces then weighed and graded.
Fourthly, those things which lubricate the vessels, along which extraneous bodies slide, as oil in the stone in the urethra, and to expedite the expectoration of hardened mucus; or which lessen the friction of the contents in the intestinal canal in dysentery or aphtha, as calcined hartshorn, clay, Armenian bole, chalk, bone-ashes. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
A young man, tan-skinned, with his hair shorn down to a round fuzz, opened the passenger door.
Those were the days when women wept facilely, "swooned," inhaled hartshorn, calmed themselves with sal volatile, and even went into hysterics upon slight provocation. Sleeping Fires: a Novel
They are somewhat timid (although not so shy as the ultimate fiber-producing camelid, the vicuña, a wild, endangered inhabitant of the Andean mountains that can only be shorn every three years for its exquisite fur), the alpaca has been domesticated for a very, very long time, and appears in artwork of the Moche people (CE 100 to 800). Archive 2008-08-01
Quails call from the unshorn meadows and the rivers teem with trout and pike. Times, Sunday Times
On the prison authorities going to perform the preliminaries for the execution, they found the prisoner armed with a chain wrenched from the wall of his cell, with which he kept them all at bay for a long time, notwithstanding that hartshorn and chloroform were used to overcome him. The New York papers give
I had shorn of power and banished for ever from appearing within the walls of Keijo. Chapter 15
They showed great shrewdness in selecting the small, the light-woolled, the easy-to-be-shorn. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
The devastated rangeland, shorn of grasses by too many horses and cows, had lost its ability to hold soil in place when the rains returned in 1893.
Any news is good news in the world of 24 hour global media and somehow the unshorn leader of an isolated Muslim country has outmastered his Western Armani-wearing counterparts in the game they invented. Shirin Sadeghi: Ahmadinejad's Alternative to the Queen's Christmas Message
But shorn of his falling hair, and without a streak of paint on his cheeks, verily his heart might be found to die within him, before furies with faces fiery with rouge, and heads horrent with pomatum -- till instinctively he strove to roll himself up in the Persian carpet, and there prayed for deliverance to his tutelary gods. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
I amused myself by calling people from the sheep barn and leaving the bleats of shorn sheep on their machines.
Van Helmont, who could not succeed in discovering the true elixir of life, however hit on the spirit of hartshorn, which for a good while he considered was the wonderful elixir itself, restoring to life persons who seemed to have lost it.
It needs to be shorn of zingers and rage and allowed to make the point clearly.
The mark of royalty at that time was unshorn locks.
Unlike other luxurious wools such as cashmere and pashmina, shahtoosh is produced from the fine, inner hairs of the Tibetan antelope - which cannot be shorn from the animal.
_Hartshorn_ applied to the stings of poisonous insects will allay the pain and stop the swelling; or apply oil of sassafras, which is better. The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home
Mr. Morgan himself enriched this mess with a lump of salt butter scooped from an old gallipot, and a handful of onions shorn, with some pounded pepper. The Adventures of Roderick Random
After Waterloo, France was shorn of more territory, and had to pay an indemnity and suffer an army of occupation for five years.
The ex-President, although shorn of his official powers, still has a lot of influence.
For it is an elementary proposition that if a vote is not cast for one of the two highest candidates it is completely shorn of its elective power.
Grabbing handfuls at a time, she chopped and cropped with growing fury until the basin was choked and her head was shorn wild and ragged. GRACE
Go for wool and come home shorn.
It was butchered by the studio and emerged shorn of 40 minutes in 1980.
Asked if Mrs Clements charge was true answers no he never refused her and that he left a space of 21 feet for the ramshorn agreeable to Justice Carters order ~ asked if he ever made known to Mrs Clements the Justices order says he believes it was made known to her ~ ~ ~ Gutenber-e Help Page
About him stood three priests, true shavelings, clean shorn and polled, who were muttering strange words to the devils out of a conjuring book.
We were shorn of all our hair; you wouldn't have known your top from your bottom.
Shorn of its mobile cash cow, the company has been forced to concentrate on upgrading its fixed line network.
Among the natural wonders that should be protected are stag beetles, and ramshorn snails; habitats including salt meadows and oak woods; and rare plants such as the lady's slipper orchid.
Hartshorne thinks, to say that God exists in a nontemporal specious present, and it is another to say that God is changed by temporal beings in a nontemporal specious present. Charles Hartshorne
I've had my hair shorn that day and, with the barber's little razor cuts adorning my dome, I'm looking at my baddest.
Hartshorn took a drink of his ale, scratched his whiskery cheek and said, `Well. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Since the restoration, and what may be called the disestablishment of Buddhism, the shrine of Iyeyasu has been shorn of all its glories of ritual and its magnificent Buddhist paraphernalia; the 200 priests who gave it splendour are scattered, and six Shinto priests alternately attend upon it as much for the purpose of selling tickets of admission as for any priestly duties. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
We drove south, past women in ankle-length dresses of turquoise and fuchsia velvet picking cotton in parched fields and unshorn goats denuding poplar saplings. Peace Meals
The Rolls Royce of them all was surely broadcloth, which in the eighteenth century was a superfine grade of woolen cloth that was fulled, or shrunk, napped, and shorn so that it was the consistency of felt but with a smooth surface.
Her long fair hair had been shorn.
His statements clearly show his belief that God had commanded him to preach an entirely new religion, the central idea of which was the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God, shorn of all ritualism and priestcraft.
Among the natural wonders that should be protected are stag beetles, and ramshorn snails; habitats including salt meadows and oak woods; and rare plants such as the lady's slipper orchid.
I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him — an atrior cura at his tail — and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous, Catherine: a story
Ammonium carbonate is a byproduct of hartshorn, a substance extracted from deer antlers (harts horn).
In a sustainable-use program, wild vicunas are herded, captured, shorn of their fleece, and released unharmed.
Henceforth, the appellation Singh (meaning lion) would be attached to every member of the brotherhood and they would be required to wear a uniform that had to include the so-called five Ks: Kesh (unshorn hair); Kanga (a wooden comb tucked under the hair); Kara (a steel bracelet); Kachera (shorts to enable riding and soldering); and Kirpan (a sword). Ravinder Singh Taneja: The Incomparable Guru Gobind Singh
Resplendent in bright orange, black and red, his comb, wattles and ear lobes have been shorn off.
In axiology as well as in metaphysics/theodicy, freedom is crucial, on Hartshorne's view. Charles Hartshorne
Her long fair hair had been shorn.
Much of the land was intensely cultivated, a dry quiltwork of barley fields and hayfields and pastures shorn down to the dirt by goats and sheep.
However, in some cases heavy losses occurred among recently shorn sheep and newly born lambs.
Go for wool and come home shorn.
Let us study our victory with cold and ruthless self-examination and prepare for future campaigns on the basis of facts and evidence shorn of any wishful thinking or self-delusion.
I need to get 5 ramshorn snails for the tanks but now luck finding any around here. Berrywine Diary Entry
Rome has not been shorn of its potential for glory but Scotland must finish the championship on a high.
Their Marxism has been shorn of even the most basic understanding of historical materialism, of the progress of and changes to societies throughout the ages.
Then I coupled that with "Woolie" because I knew she hadn't been shorn in over a year and was most assuredly quite woolie. News from www.thesunchronicle.com
Without Ronaldo, United were shorn of a cutting edge.
Her long fair hair had been shorn.
She looks terrible, shorn of all her beauty and dignity.
Alston knows that the notion of a nontemporal God who is qualified by relation to temporal beings will strike Hartshorne as unintelligible. Charles Hartshorne
Hartshorne would argue, contra Alston, that there is a connection between belief in creation ex hyle (as opposed to creation ex nihilo) and the metaphysical principle that being is dynamic power. Charles Hartshorne
Like the mythical phoenix, which arose in its own ashes, the ram was chosen as a natural symbol of resurrection because of its ability, when shorn, to replenish its stock of wool.
A cold southerly rain storm caught the newly shorn wethers and four hundred died because the cold congealed the fat around their kidneys.
You have to say foreperson ," corrected Megan Gerrity, a blue-eyed twenty-year-old with coarse red hair, shorn short. ROUGH JUSTICE
Often used to reclaim low fertility grazing, Soay are particularly unusual in that their fleece is plucked off rather than shorn.
Go for wool and come home shorn.
Riverwind would have given much to be able to mount those horns over the door of his tent, but he could hardly afford to carry twenty pounds of ramshorn with him now. Riverwind the Plainsman
When his wife saw this, she said, “I have no occasion for thee, now thou are become pegless as a eunuch, shaven and shorn;” and he answered her, saying, “All this comes of thine ill-omened counsel and thine imbecile judgment. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
His ankles are reddened by sand-flea bites, his head has been shorn to indicate his reduction in status.
This was not Utopia; it was merely hard-headed pragmatism shorn of illusion.
It is a collection of sayings of Jesus, shorn of most narrative setting, and often Gnostic in feel, presenting Jesus as a teacher of esoteric wisdom.
Blackthorn blossom foams along the sides of shorn hedgerows but grows unchecked with willow catkins and flowering gorse bushes in neglected thickets which shelter the returned chiffchaff and blackcap. Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
The chief of these were the Burgundians, who were the first to establish themselves in burgs, in the country between the Alps and the Rhone, and were already Christians; and the Franks, who came over the Rhine, and whose royal line was properly called the Salic (from the river Yssel), but is also known as the Meerwings (sons of Meerwig), and as the Long-haired, because unshorn locks were a token of royal descent. A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates
“The Kirk of Scotland was shorn of its beams, and deprived of its full artillery and banners of authority; but still it contained zealous and fructifying pastors, attentive congregations, and, with all her spots and blemishes, the like of this Kirk was nowhere else to be seen upon earth.” The Heart of Mid-Lothian
It was time for the sheep to be shorn.
It is terraced and dotted with houses almost to the top, which is shorn of trees, revealing a red streaked rock that takes on a coppered hue in the setting sun.
He recalled the humiliation of having his hair shorn and exchanging his clothes for the prison uniform.
Hartshorne's theory is not without its own puzzles, not least of which is coordinating the concept of a divine temporal world-line with the relativistic view of space-time in contemporary physics (cf. Griffin 1992). Process Theism
Alston believes, contra Hartshorne, that God can be in some way contingent (that any relation in which God stands to the world might have been otherwise) and still be nontemporal. Charles Hartshorne
During its 1864 season 41,000 sheep were shorn, providing work for an army of musterers, shearers, woolclassers, packers and teamsters.
If a decline at anything like that rate continues, all bets are off, and Spain will not only have to get help from its euro-zone partners read, Germany, but abandon its position that the banks' creditors are to emerge from the process their curly locks unshorn. Spain Can Still Avoid Financial Doom
His material is shorn of all excess baggage and his ability to lock on a small aspect of everybody's lives and turn it askew is priceless.
Ai jsut fynishdededed teh laszt uv thwee stoopypleh kormtunyoueng edjamacayshun classis ai hadded tu tayk awnlyn soe ai kud has teh koff-koff *roalz eiies* “pribbilejj” uv kepaifyeng mai innshorns ayjint lysenses. Of course I ate him. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
He seemed to her always a kind of shorn Samson when afield from politics, and now, as she had often done, she drew him to speak of what he knew best. The Henchman
picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor
Zerchi wondered if he were about to stand up and make an announcement to his hosts-or blow a ramshorn at them, perhaps? A Canticle for Leibowitz
`Sure, madam, it smells worse than hartshorn or sal ammoniac. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
They went barefoot, their hair was shorn, and they each wore only a single garment.
In the foreground a wooden shanty, a broom by the door with a ramshorn hanging from its handle. The Road to Damascus
I hate the shaggy, unshorn look he has going on now; I like my men clean-cut for the most part, but some can get away with the scruffy look, or the long hair…
`Sure, madam, it smells worse than hartshorn or sal ammoniac. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
‘The organisation behind the course was immense, over 100 sheep are needed every day and pens are needed for shorn and unshorn sheep from different flocks,’ he said.
However, in some cases heavy losses occurred among recently shorn sheep and newly born lambs.

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