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Example sentences for "lost sheep"

  • The first of the series of parables was that of the Lost Sheep; this we have considered in connection with its earlier delivery in the course of instruction to the disciples in Galilee.

  • And though thou hast gone astray like a lost sheep, yet on Him I have laid thine iniquities; and though thou thereby didst undo and break thyself for ever, yet by His stripes I have healed thee.

  • He is sensible he hath sinned and gone astray like a lost sheep, and, therefore, will justify God in his severest proceedings against him.

  • The most prosaic shepherd looks for lost sheep, and everybody has peculiar joy over lost things found.

  • He thought habitually of all humanity as a flock of lost sheep, and of Himself as high above them, unparticipant of their evil, and having one errand--to bring them back.

  • And after he had purchased her freedom he took her about with him, pretending that she was the "lost sheep," and that he himself was the Power which is over all.

  • And he said that the latter was the "lost sheep," who again and again abiding in women throws the Powers in the world into confusion, on account of her unsurpassable beauty; on account of which the Trojan War came to pass through her.

  • So she, transmigrating from body to body, and thereby also continually undergoing indignity, last of all even stood for hire in a brothel; and she was the "lost sheep.

  • A lost sheep, and sell him as a Huggletonian," rejoined Sir Jekyl.

  • It was reassuring to have this proof that one might be a lost sheep dyed to deepest black and yet indulge in philandering under the June stars with a pretty girl--a handsome stately girl she was!

  • And you don't know how wonderful it is to be sitting beside you here and talking to you just as though nothing had ever happened to me; really as though I wasn't a lost sheep and a pretty black one at that.

  • It's terribly easy to become a lost sheep, even a black one.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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