Mr. Shearer could not prove that Frank Hall committed the dastardly act, but was more than satisfied of his guilt.
Some time after this Mr. Shearer found a saddle animal belonging to his wife cut and mutilated in a most shameful manner.
The "picker up" catches up the fleece and takes it to the wool bin, while the shearer turns to the pen to catch another victim.
Though some of us there wished the fight to the strong, Yet we knew in our hearts that the shearer was wrong.
The shearer is paid by the hundred, the rouser by the week.
The shearer places the sheep between his knees with its head upwards; he begins at the throat and shears downward, so that, when his work is completed, the fleece drops off in a single piece.
Certainly, you have it now beyond question," remarked Harry; "and I am sure that every shearer is very careful about letting his sheep out through his own door.
Whenever a shearer cuts the skin of a sheep he calls out 'Tar!
Oh, that is for the shearer to let out his sheep after he has removed the fleece.
A good shearer can do fourscore in a day, and consequently he earns twenty shillings or one sovereign.
At evening each shearer turns in his checks, and receives in return a signed paper with his name and their number.
The shearer takes one by its left hind leg, and by a skillful twist he throws it on its back and pulls it toward him.
The shearer reaches out his right hand and grasps one of the three or four sheep that have been pushed into a little compartment from the main pens.
The men work very rapidly and a good shearer can easily handle one hundred sheep a day.
Norman Shearer and Darwin Chase, who were only boys, were released, and King Follett, an aged man, was added to the list of prisoners.
Pratt, Morris Phelps, Luman Gibbs, Norman Shearer and Darwin Chase, were sent to Richmond, to await trial on the same charges.
This release happened just as Mr. Shearer came to visit his son for the last time before he left the country.
The illiterateshearer who knocks down his cheque in a spree.
Sister Jennie Cloninger was busy scraping an old bathtub with a piece of glass, preparatory to painting it, and Sister Eva Shearer had her dress tucked up whilst mopping one of the floors.
Sister Shearer dear, what can I do to help this blessed work?
A smart professionalshearer will clip one hundred sheep in a day of ten hours.
The great advantage, however, of machinery is the perfect uniformity of cut obtained,--a result which the most experiencedshearer cannot insure.
De Vere (with two very bright-patterned Crimean shirts, one in each hand, which he offers to a tall young shearer for inspection).
Till that time not a shearer will come to your gate, except, perhaps, one or two useless, characterless men.
Now, look here, you're in my opinion a badshearer and a bad man.
And if a shearer slice off a piece of flesh from his own person, as occasionally happens, he gravely anoints it with the universal remedy, and considers that the onus then lies with Providence, there being no more that man can do.
The employer thinks principally of the latter, the shearer of the former.
Besides all this he was the fastest and the best shearer in the district of Tumut, New South Wales, where he was born, as had been his father and mother before him.
Your name is Janus Stoate, and you are a shearer and a bush labourer?
For now and henceforth the natural bias of each shearer will appear.
I have known the prisoner, off and on, for some years, as a shearer and bush labourer.
I'm a shearerin the season; have a selection at Chidowla, this side of Tumberumba.
The strain of shearing is very severe on the wrists, and the ringer or fastest shearer is very apt to go in the wrists, especially at the beginning of a season.
Occasionally a shearer pauses and throws the perspiration from his forehead in a rain.
Pratt, Morris Phelps, Lyman Gibbs, Darwin Chase and Norman Shearerwere committed on a charge of murder for the part they took in the battle of Crooked River; and were to remain in prison at Richmond.
Darwin Chase and Norman Shearer (who had just been liberated from Richmond prison, where they had been confined for the cause of Jesus Christ,) were ordained to the office of the Seventies.
A third man to wait upon the shearer was kept busy at his right carefully gathering the wool and stuffing it in huge sacks.
They told me that he was the very fastest and most expert shearer in the whole territory.
To-day one finds the hand shearer and the machine shearer at work in America.
An expert shearer can clip about the same number of range goats that he can range sheep--from ninety to one hundred and twenty a day.
The hand shearer should use a pair of short bladed (about five inch blade) sheep shears.
In Asia Minor one finds the goat shearerusing a pair of long bladed scissors to cut the mohair.
The shearer reined up on one side of the track, and gave her a low bow, wide-awake in hand, and with it a kind of a glaring grin that made his teeth stand out like brass-headed nails in the afternoon sunshine.
The shearer next him had started on a new sheep simultaneously, and was on farther than the brisket when the ringer had reached the buttocks.
The shearer promptly seized him by his uninjured wrist, twisted it violently behind his back, and held out his hand to Bo's'n for the pannikin.
These casual laborers and rouseabouts are paid ten dollars a week, while the shearer works on piece work, receiving six dollars for each hundred sheep shorn, and it is a slow man who does not average one hundred and fifty per day.
Every shearer keeps three men at high speed attending to him.
I met the shearer two years after, when he told me all about it.
Then we had dinner--that is, I had a good meal; but the drunken shearer could not touch food, and presented a terrible picture of sickness and misery.
Mr. Sellwood may remember my little anecdote of the iron store, the Queensland blacks, and the French eagle on the chest of the stray shearer who saved all our lives?
But there was long dry grass all round up to within some fifteen yards of the store; and after dark the shearer ran out three or four times with a bucket of petroleum, and once with a box of matches.
The shearer had his horse hung up outside; he could have got away quite easily in the beginning; but our horses were all turned out, and he wouldn't leave us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shearer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
