And the ninety and nine Bleat for joy down the line, That it's safe from the wolf and the cold.
Then its answering bleat Hurries on his glad feet, And his arms gather up his lost sheep.
The sheep had noticed it long before, and now under its nearer, stronger influence began to bleat wildly, to run faster, to crowd without aim.
Above the bleat of sheep and trample of many hoofs rang out Mescal's cry, despairing.
With a hoarse bleat of alarm, thinking he was about to be deserted, the calf followed after the sled, his long legs wobbling awkwardly.
With a bleat he tore himself away, and rushed off, tail in air, across the stump-pasture and into the woods.
With a loud bleat of pain the calf shot to his feet and went galloping around the yard.
The half-heard bleat of sheep comes from the hill, Faint sounds of childish play are in the air.
You may as well use question with the wolf Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb.
An hour later, as she paced the garden paths, a faint bleat sounded at the hem of her skirt, and four unsteady legs supported a weak little body that tumbled in pursuit of her.
If he lost himself in his wayward pursuit of his mistress, a plaintive bleat summoned her to his side.
When Ming Soy see you way down road, Ming Soy bleat glong.
All I could get out of the Oriental while I was waiting was, 'Missee tlell Ming Soy when she see little Missee and Mr. Tommee Blenson she bleat glong.
Bleat softly then, the Butcher heares you cry Boyet.
Let his enemies bleatand bark "Beelzebub," yet the child was an angel, though suffering for his sin, and her soul was with God.
Again she lifted it, and made strange noises at its ear; but when it did not answer with its bleat her lips began to tremble.
And sometimes as he spoke to her it smote him suddenly that the words themselves which he used to speak with were no more to Naomi than the notes which Ali struck from his dead harp, or the bleat of the goat at her feet.
Day and night he hears no sound except the melancholy, monotonous bleat, bleat of the sheep.
Despite the vehemence of the phrase the intonation was a very bleat of desperation.
But the surgeons were wont to declare that the men began to bleat at the very sight of the chaplain.
The place where the echo of the bleat of the lamb was heard--referred to in the Fenwick note--may be easily found.
The little bleat sounded above him, very feeble and faint.
And no call to bleat about nature, because nature's a heathen thing, and you well knew it was no time to yield to any temptations that would make you a knave if you did yield to 'em.
For once I can do you a turn; but if you're going to bleat about it, I shall not.
At the same moment the lamb, which had fallen out of bed and found his way out of the shack, announced himself with a bleat and went toddling off toward the darkness.
And when one of them gets hungry he lets a bleat out of him and starts for the bunch of sheep.
While she was thus going on, there came from the corral a bleat in the awe-inspiring tone of Fa, and this was followed by a succession of bleats which reminded her of nothing so much as a child getting its hands on the keyboard of an organ.
With a bleat of pain and fear it sprang up and fled toward its mother.
There was a short, swift chase, an agonized bleat or two, and Black Bruin had a breakfast that well repaid him for all his watching and waiting.
You hear the bleat-bleat of the lambs, and come full in the midst of herds of thousands going down to a water pool.
A FARM WALK The year stood at its equinox And bluff the North was blowing, A bleat of lambs came from the flocks, Green hardy things were growing; I met a maid with shining locks Where milky kine were lowing.
In time his expences brought clamours about him, that overpowered the lambs' bleat and the linnets' song; and his groves were haunted by beings very different from fawns and fairies.
BELL: What have you heard this fifteen-year, except The bleat of sheep, till Ruth’s voice kittled your ear?
This very morn, I heard an ewe Bleat in the thicket; there I flew, With lazy wing slow circling round, Until I spied unto the ground A lamb by tangled briars bound.
The shepherd's soft and mellow voice Is heard upon her mountain, Where oft he hums his rustic song To his beloved maiden, Resounding through the gorges deep With bleat of sheep and oxen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bleat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
