Their empty sheepfold might have been full to-day if they had acknowledged Him as a Prophet and no more.
I was awakened by the disturbance, and as it was a light night I saw that the Kurds who attacked the sheepfold were armed with modern guns.
In each village the common sheepfold is guarded from sunset to sunrise by a number of men--a heavy burden on villagers whose taxation should ensure them sufficient protection from marauders.
The length of full seven years, from time to time, 470 He at the building of this Sheepfold wrought, And left the work unfinished when he died.
Her grief was so great that Batcha leaped out of the sheepfold to comfort her.
Of course he hasn't been sleeping here in the sheepfold all winter.
He didn't know what to say to her at first, so he slipped into the sheepfold and hid himself while he tried to think out some likely story.
I will tell you of what I was thinking as I walked back from the hill crest to-night and while I was fastening the sheepfold gate.
They had come to the sheepfold paling and Jean ran forward to help Dian open the great door.
One he knew well, for it led straight across the fields to his sheepfold door; the other was over rough stubble, hard and uneven from the early frost.
The shepherd had reached the sheepfold door, and he stood with both hands against it, ready to push it open.
A small spring surrounded by grass seemed to us quite an oasis, and there we encamped near a sheepfold and a mani heap.
We encamped at a sheepfold and enjoyed the feeling that there were no neighbours to spy on us.
At the mouth of a valley to the south were seen a sheepfold and two black specks we took for stones.
After crossing the river twice over bridges of porous ice we encamped near a sheepfold where dry dung was plentiful.
The sheepfold on which so much of the poem turns, remains, or rather the ruins of it.
She was light of foot, but sometimes she stumbled; she was up and on again--the sheepfold her goal.
The quarry woods stood out dark against the clear sky; there seemed to be more light on these uplands than below in The Gore; she saw the sheepfold like a square blot on the pasture slope.
The Flying Fairies of Bedwellty--The Fairy Sheepfold at Cae'r Cefn.
He is the Good Shepherd who enters the sheepfold by the door, and not as the thief and robber who climb up some other way.
It often happens that several flocks, belonging to different shepherds, will graze on the same pastures during the day, and will be penned in the same sheepfold at night.
Passing behind the town walls as swiftly as might be, with the burden of Madame Amelie in their arms, Jean-aux-Choux halted the brothers for a while in lee of a sheepfold with walls high enough for a fort.
An old dilapidated sheepfold is the only building, and seems to make the scene still more solitary.
The sheepfold was now very pleasant to him when the head shepherd was away, and so much gratification it was natural that he should allow himself.
From henceforth Bolton Street must be forbidden ground to him, and the sheepfold in Onslow Crescent must be his home till he should have established a small peculiar fold for himself.
For a time good reports came from him, and the old shepherd would go out when he had leisure and would work on the sheepfold which he was building.
In one of his poems, Wordsworth tells a pathetic story of a straggling heap of unhewn stones, and the beginning of a sheepfold which was never finished.
The length of full seven years from time to time He at the building of his sheepfold wrought, And left the work unfinished when he died.
There by the sheepfold sometimes was he seen Sitting alone, with that his faithful dog, Then old, beside him, lying at his feet.
If a shepherd has been careless and in a sheepfold caused a loss to take place, the shepherd shall make good the fault of the loss which he has caused to be in the fold and shall pay cows or sheep and shall give to their owner.
If in a sheepfold a stroke of God has taken place or a lion has killed, the shepherd shall purge himself before God, and the accident to the fold the owner of the fold shall face it.
The little city is seen from the sheepfold high up against the sky to the west about two miles off.
Then we walked down to the field of Boaz, full of waving green wheat, in the midst of which stands the sheepfold surrounded by a stone wall.
Field of Boaz with green wheat in middle distance, enclosure of sheepfold in foreground.
This rivulet, which I take to be Moss Brook, is a boundary, and that sheepfold and the two posts standing in a line with it are marks.
Do you imagine that this stream can have changed its course in a single night; or that yon sheepfold has been removed to the further side of it?
As the players are tapped, they step out from the sheepfold and line up back of Jacky Lingo, each one in the line placing his hands on the shoulders of the one next in front.
The game starts with the fox standing in a den marked in one corner of the playground, and the sheep in a sheepfold marked in the diagonally opposite corner.
The Boy Who Went from the Sheepfold to the Throne.
Janice, remembering suddenly where Jack Besmith had probably slept off his debauch, for she had seen him asleep in her uncle's sheepfold on that particular Saturday morning.
Certainly he must have been up here in the sheepfold all night; and a person who would spend a night in the open, on the raw hillside at this time of year, must have something the matter with him, to be sure.
He said: "I tell you in truth, whoever does not go into the sheepfold through the door, but climbs up somewhere else, that man is a thief and a robber.
He said: "If one of you has a hundred sheep, and loses one of them, does he not leave the ninety and nine sheep in the sheepfold out in the fields, and go after the lost one until he finds it.
There is a sheepfold he rais'd which my memory loves to revisit, Sheepfoldwhose wall shall endure when there is not a stone of the palace.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheepfold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
