The Canadians seeing their Lord taken, began to run away, even as sheepebefore the woolfe, some crossing over the riuer, some through the woods, each one seeking for his owne aduantage.
But me thinks he should stand in feare of fire, being burnt i'th hand for stealing of Sheepe Cade.
And now like Aiax Telamonius, On Sheepe or Oxen could I spend my furie.
At length they came to a certaine Castle where under colour of divination, they brought to passe that they obtained a fat sheepe of a poore husbandman for the goddesse supper and to make sacrifice withall.
And therewithall he tooke his sheepe and drave them away as fast as he might possible.
Till now I thought the proverbe did but jest, Which said a blacke sheepe was a biting beast.
The second day Colonell Huntley was sent into the countrey with three or foure hundred men, who brought home very great store of kine and sheepe for our reliefe.
The grasse and herbe doth fat sheepe in very short space, proved by English marchants which have caried sheepe thither for fresh victuall, and had them raised exceeding fat in lesse than three weekes.
My Coate sayth he, nor yet my foulde, 100 Shall neither sheepe nor shepheard hould, except thou fauour me.
So may thy Sheepe like, so thy Lambes increase, And from the Wolfe feede euer safe and free!
Thy sheepe quoth she cannot be leane, That haue a iolly shepheards swayne, 80 the which can pipe so well.
This shepheard ware a sheepe gray cloke, Which was of the finest loke, that could be cut with sheere, His mittens were of Bauzens skinne, His cockers were of Cordiwin his hood of Meniueere.
The defendant is awarded costs, "and the said complainant shall from henceforth forbear to put any sheepe upon the said ground, and suffer his sheepe to feede there.
Roger Salisbury taketh also the whole benefit of theire common from them, keepinge there his sheepe in grazinge, and debarring them of their libertie there which for comon right belongeth unto them.
Lye still, lye still, thou little Musgrave, And huggle me from the cold; For it is but some shephardes boye A whistling his sheepe to the fold.
Sore have I sinned, Lord, she sayd, And spent my time in vaine, But bring me like a wandring sheepe Into thy flocke againe.
So 'twas I thought: because she tends thy sheepe Thou thinkst in love of thee she taketh keepe; That is as townish damzels, lend the hand But send the heart to him aloofe doth stande: So deales Eurymine with Silvio.
My maister is neither damnde nor dead, and yet is in the case of both your maisters, like a woodden shepheard and a sheepish woodman; for he is lost in seeking of a lost sheepe and spent in hunting a Doe that hee would faine strike.
A scabb'd Sheepewill marre a whole flocke, Faith, then the Shepherd's a Knave or a Block.
The sheepe are very big and very good meat, they haue no woll on their backs but haire, and haue great tailes like the sheepe in Syria.
We bought an oxe for two kniues, a stirke for a knife, and a sheepe for a knife, and some we bought for lesse value then a knife.
The sheepe in those Countries haue great tayles, and are fat and delicate.
You Sheepe & I pasture: shall that finish the iest?
No Sheepe (sweet Lamb) vnlesse we feed on your lips La.
Among the Scyritae, the Serpents come by great swarmes uppon their flocks of sheepe and cattell, and some they eate up all, others they kill, and sucke out the blood, and some part they carry away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheepe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
