The shearers cut the soft wool from the old sheep, and then they called, "The little girl wants a new dress.
The shearers shear in the centre, which is large enough to leave room for the wool to be stowed away at one end.
The shearers will want to begin with daylight, and the dew will not yet be off the wool if the sheep are exposed.
The shearerspull the sheep out of the skilions as they want them.
If wool is packed damp it will heat and spoil; therefore a sufficient number of sheep must be left under cover through the night to last the shearers till the dew is off.
One day, however, Mr. Hardy had ridden over to Canterbury to arrange with his friends about hiring shearers from Rosario for the united flocks.
They were rather rough, though, in their work, and the girls soon went away from the shearing-place with a feeling of pity and disgust, for the shearers often cut the sheep badly.
Therefore as a lamb to the slaughter is led, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, he opened not his mouth.
Why were not the shearersallowed to settle the dispute their own way?
The more recent strike of the Queensland shearers has afforded opportunity for a display of an equal faculty of logic and reasonableness.
This man was actuated by a revengeful spirit towards the free labourers, and especially towards those shearersthat had opposed the Union.
He as delegate had received notice from the President of the Union to call out the shearers before shearing was concluded.
Some of theshearers grumble at being stopped, 'just as a man was earning a few shillings.
Shearers diet themselves on the principle that the more they eat the stronger they must be.
The shearers had signed a specific agreement for a stipulated rate of payment, irrespective of the weather.
You shearers and rouseabouts think it's nothing, I suppose, to find grass for a hundred or two horses, and a mob of bullocks big enough to stock a small run.
All the sheds in the district were short of men, and if the shearers left in a body, the year's clip would suffer ruinous loss and injury.
A few days' showery weather having well-nigh driven our shearers to desperation, out comes the sun in all his glory.
As the sun tinges the far sky-line the shearers are taking a slight refection of coffee and currant-buns, to enable them to withstand the exhausting interval between six A.
And as the fast shearers would do from a hundred to a hundred and fifty sheep per day, it may be calculated, at the rate of one pound per hundred, what a nice little cheque would be coming to every man after a season's shearing.
Large camps of armed and apparently desperate men were formed, who intimidated those non-Union shearers and bush labourers who neither conformed to their rules nor submitted to their dictation.
In a great Queensland strike, when the shearersattacked and burnt Dagworth shed, some rifle-volleys were exchanged.
The space they will fill is a little thing to give; and there is a satisfaction in the good faith of printing them, though the shearers will most assuredly never know it.
The men raise stock, and go out in bands as sheep-shearers and harvesters.
As a sheep before her shearers is dumb" will always have for me a new significance.
In the shelter of some hurdles he and one or two travelling shearers were busy with the ewes' fleeces.
Of course the shearers spread the story of Joanna's outburst when they went on to Slinches and Birdskitchen and other farms, but no one was surprised that the shepherd stayed on.
If she was away when theshearers came, there'd be no end to their goings on with the girls, and besides, who'd see that the work was done proper and the tegs not scared out of their lives?
But I shan't have got in my hay, and the shearers are coming on the fourteenth--you have to book weeks ahead, and that was the only date Harmer had free.
The journeymen of the cloth shearers took a lesson in combination from the employers.
The shearers of cloth raised a cry against a new iron instrument invented for raising the nap of cloth so that it could be quickly burned off without the old labour, while shearers were left idly loitering.
A later law enacted that “the worsted shearersin Norwich shall make no ordinance but such as the Mayor and Alderman shall think necessary.
In addition to their wages, they were supplied with food, and he added that the shearers were a fastidious lot, and nothing but the best table would suit them.
We engage theshearers as they come along, in parties or gangs.
Our host told us that the shearers travel about the country, and take contracts for shearing the flocks at so much a head.
Sometimes a gang ofshearers brings along its own cook.
I suppose," said Ned, "that the shearers occasionally cut the sheep while shearing them.
Oh, we have to board them, of course, and we have to board their horses, as most of the shearers travel on horseback.
All the shearing is done by machine, and in Western Queensland good shearers are in constant employment for ten months of the year.
There is a law that says that shearers must not be asked to shear "wet" sheep, as it is supposed to give them a peculiar disease.
The shearers have a separate union from the rouseabouts, and there is a good deal of ill feeling between the two classes.
When the shearers want a spell I have known them declare by a majority vote that the sheep were "wet," though there had not been any rain for months!
I have seen as many as a hundred shearers at work at once.
Shearers live in such a greedy rush of excitement that often a strong man will, at a prick of the shears, fall in a death-like faint on the board.
Shearers rush the pens and yank out sheep and throw them like demons; grip them with their knees, take up machines, jerk the strings; and with a rattling whirring roar the great machine-shed starts for the day.
The shearers are paid by the number of sheep they shear, and they work very fast, every man trying to see if he cannot be the "ringer," as they call the man who has sheared the greatest number of sheep at the close of the shearing.
The shearers earn five dollars for every hundred sheep sheared, and an ordinarily good workman will shear a hundred sheep in a day, while extra good ones have sheared three hundred in a day.
Shearers were coming in, some riding, some trudging along on foot, carrying their swags.
As the shearers have no expenses, their food and lodging being given them, they can make a good deal of money during the season.
Shearers were very scarce, and the poor sheep got fearfully "tomahawked" by the new hands, who had been a very short time from the barracks.
Shearers are rough in their language now and then.
The shearers mostly knew her by sight, because she had taken a fancy to come down with her father a couple of times to see the shed when we were all in full work.
We did go, and went from one big station to the other when the spring was regularly on and shearers were scarce.
Shearers work pretty hard, and as they buy their own rations generally, they can afford to live well.
Still I see the shearers drinking at the township in the scrub, And the army praying nightly at the door of every pub, And the girls who flirt and giggle with the bushmen from the west -- But the memory of Sweeney overshadows all the rest.
The Senora did not realize how time was going; there would be noshearers to be hired presently, since the Senora was determined to have none but Indians.
They are all poor, I suppose; he would not work with theshearers if he were not poor.
The shearers have been sent for, and will be here tonight, and that was the reason I felt so sure you would come.
But about the Indians, Juan; did not Senor Felipe tell you that he had positively engaged the same band of shearers we had last autumn, Alessandro's band from Temecula?
He had once gone with his shearers to San Fernando, and there he had seen in a room of the old Mission buildings a dozen statues of saints huddled in dusty confusion.
He was one of the best shearersin the region, the best horse-breaker; and his services were always in demand, spite of the risk there was of his having at any time one of these attacks of wandering.
A few rods away stood the booths in which the shearers' food was to be cooked and the shearers fed.
He recalled her tender distress because the shearers had had no dinner; the evident terribleness to her of a person going one whole day without food.
She knew we would be ashamed to have the shearersgo away hungry.
This led the young manager to scent something wrong, and telling Griffiths to follow him home quickly he rode straight back to the shed, and getting some of the shearers to accompany him, made straight tracks for the house.
They're doing their shearing early at Breeza Downs with shearers Windeatt has imported from the south, and he wants police protection for them and himself.
Her sympathy with oppressed shearers and dispossessed natives struck always a jarring note between them.
HE is to be allowed freedom of contract I presume, though the shearers are not.
There were some gangs of shearers or stockmen or what not, who appeared to be the following of two or three rakish, aggressive looking males upon whom the bushmen scowled.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
So the barn was natural to the shearers, and the shearers were in harmony with the barn.
Here the shearers knelt, the sun slanting in upon their bleached shirts, tanned arms, and the polished shears they flourished, causing these to bristle with a thousand rays strong enough to blind a weak-eyed man.
Oak, with a pharisaical sense that he was not as other shearers in this matter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shearers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
