And oddly enough, or so it seemed to outsiders, the shepherd of the black flock was the President of Richmond College and Divinity School, situated upon the outskirts of the city.
The gentle shepherd of our fold took up my slate again when the examination was over, and eyed it sourly, his head on one side, his fingers plucking at his lower lip, a trick which I knew prefaced something particularly spiteful.
Because the bad shepherd does not visit, the sheep are not sought, q.
But the shepherd of the people had become a fool, and did not enquire after the Lord.
The image of the shepherd and of feeding occurs sometimes, indeed, in a wider sense, but ordinarily of the ruler specially.
Whether it be the old fold, or a new one, is surely of very little consequence, if only the good Shepherd be in the midst of His sheep.
As the chief reason of the sheep's wandering and going astray, the bad condition of the shepherd must be considered, comp.
With him, too, one good shepherd is mentioned in contrast with the bad shepherds.
By this throwing the guilt upon the Servant of God, the condition of being without a shepherd is done away with, the flock is gathered from its scattered condition.
These men were generally both self-willed and ignorant, and we passed by at this spot a clump of finely growing firs, which had been destroyed by a fire started by a shepherd the year before.
Comatas was a Greek shepherd boy, or more strictly speaking a goatherd, who kept the flocks of a rich man.
Then, a careless shepherd will allow his flock to stray on your neighbour's run, which may have been fed over by scabby sheep the day before.
When the puma saw what had happened, he turned in a great hurry to leave the house, but before he could do so, he saw the shepherd coming, and hastily lay down again.
Then the shepherd went to examine the sleeping stag, and of course he saw the blood.
The shepherd stooped and saw the blood, and cried out: 'Ah!
In the morning the shepherd went as usual to let the sheep out of the fold, and found one of them missing.
Under his care all the crops flourished exceedingly, but the master proved to be wasteful and ungrateful, and Rubezahl soon left him, and went to be shepherd to his next neighbour.
Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
But Kadmos had gone on to look for his sister, Europa, and presently he met a shepherdwho was leading his flock of sheep.
And now, Europa, we must not stay here, for I met a shepherd whose name is Phœbus Apollo.
Thus he proceeded, until death called him from this world, and summoned him to reap his reward in heaven; when, strong in faith, he left his infant society without a shepherd to watch over its welfare.
The Great Shepherdcared for it; and when least expected, raised another pastor in the person of a Mr. John Baxter, a native of England.
The shepherd comes out, Bible in hand; he has no doubt been passing the morning in devotion at his home, since the kirk is too far away for him to attend.
Upon the top of the mountain, Orestes found a shepherdlooking after the sheep of the dragon, and he entered into the service of this shepherd as a herdsman.
He gave His life as the good Shepherd for all His sheep; yea, He died for that nation (John xi:51).
They will be separated by the King, as a shepherd separates the sheep and the goats.
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his flock that are scattered, so will I seek out my sheep; and will deliver them out of all places whither they have been scattered in the day of clouds and thick darkness.
And when He gathers them, then will they joyfully praise Him as their Shepherd and know Jehovah-Roi.
He felt that the shepherd would not see him, though he could see the shepherd.
Again and again He told the disciples that He had come to give His life a ransom for many, that He was to be betrayed and killed, that as the Good Shepherd He would give His life for the sheep.
They relate this adventure of The Shepherd and the Rogue.
Moreover thou, O King, art our shepherd and ruler and he who wardeth off from us our foes, and to whom are committed our protection and our guardian, constant in endeavour for our safety.
But, an thou hearken to me, thou wilt not advance any one of them to power neither wilt thou accept his word nor encourage him to presume upon thee, else wilt thou fare with them as did the Shepherd with the Rogue.
So the Shepherd raised his eyes and, seeing the semblance, deemed it a very lion and was much Frighted;--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.
Then he accosted the Shepherd and said to him, "Yonder lion hath sent me to demand his supper of these sheep.
Not until Ephraim called him did he raise his drooping leonine head, and when he saw him he started back in surprise and terror, and clung more firmly to the strong arm of the shepherd who supported him.
Whoever had formerly entered, between midnight and morning, the humble frontier hamlet with its shepherd tents, wretched hovels of Nile mud, and by no means handsome farms and dwellings, would scarcely have recognized it now.
The tall figure of the elder Hebrew towered over the sinewy form of the warrior, and the shepherd prince bore himself no whit less erect than the Egyptian hero.
A keeper saw him going to the copse at the same time that a shepherdmet him on the down going in another direction.
A gentleman in the East heard of a shepherd who could call all his sheep to him by name.
It is the work of the shepherd to care for the sheep, to feed them and protect them.
One day they saw an Eastern shepherd come down to a stream, and call his flock to cross.
If you have loved ones gone before, remember that your Shepherd is calling you to "set your affection on things above.
He disguised his voice, and tried to speak as much like the shepherd as he could; but he could not get a single sheep in the flock to follow him.
An Eastern shepherdwas once telling a gentleman that his sheep knew his voice, and that no stranger could deceive them.
You may some time think He has not been a very tender Shepherd to you; you are passing under the rod.
He asked the shepherdif his sheep never followed a stranger.
They no longer murmured because the Great Shepherd had taken their lambs one by one into yonder world; and they began to look up and look forward to the time when they would follow the loved ones they had lost.
The shepherd took him to the pasture where they were, and called one of them by some name.
It is the work of the Shepherd to look after them, and to take care of those who trust Him.
Such statements can hardly be taken with seriousness, for it is evident that, as sheep were pastured on these hills from the earliest times, the shepherd must have long preceded the tourist as mountaineer.
From a point between Great Gavel and Scafell,” he says, “a shepherd would not require more than an hour to descend into any one of the principal vales by which he would be surrounded.
To Pan we dedicate the Pine, Whose Slips the Shepherd graceth: Againe the Ivie and the Vine On his, swolne Bacchus placeth.
The Albanians pursue rather a shepherd life, and resemble more the nomadic tribes, except that they are not savages, and hence they are little disposed to war.
The serpent sank into its usual resting-place, and I sat down on the stool.
Suddenly I started up, and could scarcely repress the shriek which was rising to my lips.
Stop till I have removed the tea things,' said Belle; and, getting up, she removed them to her own encampment.
If you liked America you would speak in its praise.
I remember that I said one only feels uncomfortable in being silent with a companion, when one happens to be thinking of the companion.
They have been vilified and traduced--but what would Ireland be without them?
We continued at this place for some months, during which time the soldiers performed their duties, whatever they were; and I, having no duties to perform, was sent to school.
This battle fares like to the morning's war When dying clouds contend with growing light, What time the shepherd blowing of his nails Can neither call it perfect day nor night.
Here leans the idle shepherd on his crook, And vacant on the rippling waves doth look, That peaceful still 'twixt bitterest foemen flow.
Rosemund had taken up her abode in a little shepherd hut on the slope of a little hill by a water-course, and shaded by some lime trees, in which the birds paid her homage morning and evening.
Idyllic pastoral life was the fashion--people of distinction gave themselves up to country life and wore shepherd costume--and he introduced a pastoral episode into his romance, Die adriatische Rosemund.
The most successful imitator of Tasso was Giovanni Battista Guarini (born 1537) in The True Shepherd (II Pastor Fido).
When this is done the shepherd cries, "I spy a wolf!
The wolf then secures a hiding place and the sheep and shepherd leave the fold and endeavour to locate him.
Then the sheep and shepherd scatter for the fold, and if tagged before they reach it the first becomes wolf for the next game.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shepherd" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.