It is too poor to repay the work of the plow; but the sheep passes there in spring, when it has chanced to rain and a little grass shoots up.
In summer, on the short swards of the slopes, the sheep were penned day and night, protected from beasts of prey by a fence of hurdles propped up with pitchforks.
Old Dick neighed, Towler growled, the sheep bleated; it seemed as if they were all protesting against Willy's being whipped.
To the right and to the left, seated upon tapestried benches and cushioned, are men clad in red and wearing a little gold sheep on their necks.
Lamme Goedzak was lost among them, like a sheep in the midst of wolves.
While Lamme was trundling towards Koolkerke, the wind, which was both high and warm, drove like a flock of sheep in the sky the gray clouds drifting in bands; the trees complained like the waves of a swelling sea.
Ludwig of Nassau said then: "For the sheep the butcher, and glory for the soldier that is the saviour of the land of our fathers!
In some provinces of Spain, I have been assured, the sheep is frequently killed merely for the sake of the fleece and the tallow.
If there was no such trade as a butcher, for example, every man would be obliged to purchase a whole ox or a whole sheep at a time.
The growing of wool is not the chief purpose for which the sheep farmer employs his industry and stock.
If, on the contrary, instead of sheep or oxen, he had metals to give in exchange for it, he could easily proportion the quantity of the metal to the precise quantity of the commodity which he had immediate occasion for.
Plano Carpino, a monk sent ambassador from the king of France to one of the sons of the famous Gengis Khan, says, that the Tartars used frequently to ask him, if there was plenty of sheep and oxen in the kingdom of France?
Mr Hume observes, that in the Saxon times, the fleece was estimated at two-fifths of the value of the whole sheep and that this was much above the proportion of its present estimation.
To prevent the breed of oursheep from being propagated in foreign countries, seems to have been the object of this law.
Young cattle, especially calves, as well as sheep and lambs, are frequently liable to attacks of a species of bronchitis, caused by the presence in the bronchial tubes of minute worms.
These are usually prepared from the legs of bacon pigs, but those of the sheep are also sometimes used for the same purpose.
In sheep they occasion fearful mortality, giving rise to the disease known as 'the rot,' and killing thousands of flocks annually.
For the purposes of the turner and comb-maker, horns of the goat and sheep are preferred on account of their superior whiteness and transparency.
A simple and ingenious method for the therapeutic administration of the serum of the blood of sheep and oxen has been lately devised by Dr Francis Vacher, the medical officer of Birkenhead.
That made in England is formed from the fat sheep killed for the shamble, and is, hence, inferior.
A full-grown ox reached a size scarcely larger than a calf of to-day, and the fleece of a sheep often weighed less than two ounces.
As early as the Age of Metals various breeds appear, such as deerhounds, sheep dogs, and mastiffs.
The Bedouins are shepherds and herdsmen, continually moving with their sheep and camels from one pasturage and water-hole to another.
We see the sheep being driven across sown fields to trample the seed into the moist soil.
With the exhaustion of the pasturage the sheep or cattle must be driven to new fields.
Herds of cattle andsheep would now furnish more certain and abundant supplies of food than the chase could ever yield.
The corn is weeded The sheepare shorn The wool is washed Young steers are put under the yoke.
For want of hands to bring in the harvest, crops rotted on the ground, while sheep and cattle, with no one to care for them, strayed through the deserted fields.
His land was bought by capitalists, who turned many small fields into vast sheep pastures and cattle ranches.
If a man has as much as eighty rupees, or forty sheep and goats, or five camels, he should give alms at specified rates amounting roughly to two and a half per cent of his property.
This is the occasion on which Muhammadans offend Hindu feeling by their desire to sacrifice cows, as camels are unobtainable or too valuable, and the sacrifice of a cow has probably more religious merit than that of a sheep or goat.
They use sheep and goat-skins, and after letting them dry scrape off the hair and rub them with a paste of boiled rice and powdered iron filings and glass.
The shepherd castes who tend sheep and goats (the Gadarias, Dhangars and Kuramwars) also fall into this group.
A sept of Gonds in Betul, who abstain from killing or eating a goat or sheep and throw away any article smelt by them.
The caste offer sheep and goats to their deities and worship the animals before killing them.
If by shaving the head perfection is achieved, the sheep is saved, no one is lost.
Before they entered India the Aryans were a migratory pastoral people, their domestic animals being the horse, cow, and perhaps the sheep and goat.
The Strathspey Highlanders used to make a hoop of rowan wood through which on beltane day they drove the sheep and lambs both at dawn and sunset.
Sheep farming is an important industry in the highlands of Upper Beira; while near Lamego swine are reared in considerable numbers, and furnish the well-known Lisbon hams.
Take these two kinds of sheep, transfer them to Switzerland or France; the mountain breeds will feed apart even in a lowland meadow of thick grass, the lowland sheep will keep together even on an alp.
The banker, no doubt, like the conqueror, runs risks; but there are so few men in a position to wage this warfare, that the sheep have no business to meddle.
Let me hear Thy voice--"The sheep follow Him; for they know His voice.
In the flock God discerns the weaker sheep and the stronger rams and the goats--the clergy, class-leaders, etc.
By the footsteps--He goeth before them, and the sheepfollow Him.
In the latter part of this verse the picture of the shepherds is dropped and a new parable begins, likening the clergy and their strong supporters and "laity" to different classes of sheep and goats (cattle).
Those addressed are not the Bride class, selected during the Gospel Age, (1 John 3:2) but the sheep class of Matt.
God's true Christian sheep and His sheepof the Hebrew race.
Millennial Age become the Lord's sheep and obey His voice.
Thy grace and glory Thou dost give To those who near Thee ever live; And no good thing dost Thou withhold From sheep which stray not from Thy fold.
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out My sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
My sheep know My voice [of love], and a stranger will they not follow.
The queen took much delight in these my mad tricks, and commanded the carcass of this sheep to be given me, and I never eat meat with more relish or better appetite.
There are also sheep all over white, whose tails are a cubit long, and hang down like a large cluster of grapes, with great flaps of skin hanging from their throats.
Among other things we had fresh mutton every day, as we had many shepherds along with us taking care of the sheep we had bought at Babylon, each merchant having his own marked with a distinguishing mark.
So abundant are animals in this country, that twelvesheep may be bought for a single piece of gold worth about a pistole.
It has likewise plenty of honey and wax, and abundance of animals for food, among which are sheep having tails of sixteen pounds weight, very fat and good; their head and neck black, and all the rest of their bodies white.
As thesheep gave no answer, I asked him whether he were Mahometan, Jew, or Christian.
There was a great fat sheep that was fed in the court of the palace, of that kind whereof the tail only will sometimes weigh eleven or twelve pounds.
As the sheep answered never a word to all I could say, I at length broke his leg with staff.
At this place I saw a kind of sheep without horns, whose tails weigh forty or fifty pounds.
Oh, I guess it is a sheep herder," replied the old man.
A queer looking sheep herder," replied Cassner, and mounting his horse started out to make an investigation.
My youngest son, a boy of thirteen years of age, was herding sheep about a mile from the house when he was killed.
First, he stole out to the sheepfold, and plucked the eyes out of all the sheep and goats he could find, and took them with him.
But as soon as ever he got inside the door, the sheep gave him such a butt that he fell head foremost into the stove.
Graypaw,' she said to the wolf; 'many a goat and sheep hast thou torn and rent, and now thou shalt be plagued and punished to death.
Maybe I can get house-room here for all my horses andsheep and money.
Once on a time there was a sheep who stood in the pen to be fattened; so he lived well, and was stuffed and crammed with everything that was good.
So the troll had to leave the fish in peace, but now the sheep had to pay for it, for the troll was chasing them over all the cliffs and crags the whole night.
But, after all,' said the sheep to himself, 'there may be a cure even for death this time.
The sheep and cattle on whom were recognised the marks of the Alisons of Boola Boola, and of sundry of their neighbours, were collected, to be driven down and reclaimed by their owners, and the victory was complete.
Harold found that there were serious losses in the numbers of the sheep of the common stock, and that all the neighbouring settlers were making the like complaint.
The shepherds were badly beaten, and then bailed up, and a couple of hundred sheep were driven off.
But, upon my word, I wouldn't be you when it comes to the sheep and the goats business!
He said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.
King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.
Why hast thou and thy people lamed our horses and our oxen, and killed our sheep and poultry?
The rest of us will die like sheep in the shambles!
Slight, if I had them at this bay that flout me, And say I look like a sheep and an ass, I'd make them Feel that I am a lion.
His own mother did not dare trust the black sheep of the family, even though he promised at her death-bed.
Jim, I don't believe we are a howling success as sheep farmers.
Go past the sheep ranch," she directed the passive warrior, who stood gazing at the wealth in whisky and powder.
I don't care a darn about the sheepjust now," declared Jim.
Oh, cam' ye here the fight to shun, Or herd the sheep wi' me, man?
The Abbe stood looking at her for some minutes; at last he said, "You look like a sheep in a reflecting mood.
The man with the sheep was quite ready, and the bargain was quickly made.
Let the hazel bush bear nuts, and the cows and sheep give milk; they have each their public.
My mother obtained a living by making bottle-cases of bark and skins, and I kept the sheep belonging to the priests, who were sometimes peasants, while I had for my playfellows Anastasia and the turtles.
There were beautiful flowers, old trees, sloping fields, in which cows and sheep were grazing, but not a man to be seen.
He was very cheerful that day, and merrily assisted in cooking some mutton-collops from the stolen sheep provided by Colonel Carlis, on which subject he was afterward fond of joking with that devoted companion of his perils.
