The annexed figure represents a wether of this breed.
He places Nessan over his convent at Mungret because he had given a little wether to the hungry.
The wether theirs, As though earth-swallowed, vanished that wild tribe, Fearing that mother's eye.
Gladly then That shepherd youth gave them thewether small: With both his hands outstretched, and liberal smile, He gave it, though, with angry eye askance His mother grudged it sore.
Whitsuntide is almost come, and then there's the bel-wether dance, and I haven't a sweetheart.
I treated him ever so often at the bel-wether dance; but he won't give me any thing, for all that.
Florian now received so many orders that he found no rest by day or night, and when the day of the bel-wether dance came he overslept the morning service.
I'll bet you three pints of the best that she'll go to the bel-wether dance with me, and with nobody else.
Such a bel-wether dance as this will be I would'nt give a copper for.
Crescence unwound the red ribbon which had adorned her hair since the bel-wether dance, tied it round a letter and a stone, and flung it up to Florian, who caught it adroitly.
Then the lord of the manor may have looked with complacency from the turret of his castle upon the follies of his villeins: he had given them the wether and the ribbon, and probably gave the winning pair pittance of a marriage-portion.
The bel-wether dance was approaching, and great preparations were being made for it.
It is a question wether reform had betr wait for a betr agrement of experts, or wether there is now enuf agrement to justify anybody’s going ahed with his share of it, and such personal extras as his consience reqires (reqiirs?
Ner du I care if my decease Sud be approved by thee; Or wether tha wi ekwal ease Does tawk again wi me.
Conan rose up and took hold of it, but the wether gave itself a shake that threw Conan under one of its feet.
Goll and Osgar looked at one another then, and shame came on them, a wether to have done so much as that.
And Osgar got up, but the wether put him down under one of his feet, so that it had now the three men under him.
The men rose up then, but they had no mind to go on eating, for there was shame on them at what the wether had done to them.
And when the food was ready and put on the table, there came a great wetherthat was fastened up in the back of the house, and he rose up on the table where they were eating, and when they saw that, they looked at one another.
And rise up now, cat," he said, "and tie the wether in the place where he was.
Rise up, Conan," said Goll, "and fasten that wether in the place it was before.
I'm sure I would rather they had worried the primest wetherin my faulds.
The blake wether tho sche tok, And hiewh the fleissh, as doth a cok; On either alter part sche leide, And with the charmes that sche seide A fyr doun fro the Sky alyhte And made it forto brenne lyhte.
The ferste of whiche natheles Be name is cleped Aries, 980 Which lich a wether of stature Resembled is in his figure.
Grizzel, who stuck to her own; 'but will you have a wether or a ewe--a wether or a ewe?
So when she had gone a bit further, a big wether met her, which had such thick long wool, it hung down and draggled after him on the ground, and on one of his horns hung a great pair of shears.
I'm only going to the sheep-stall to fetch a fat wether for that cunning Fox, who set our Dobbin free.
The simple wetherwas much inclined to retire from the contest, but looked around in vain for any way to peace and comfort.
Patrick begged of him to give him the wether to save his honor.
At that very time came another youth, attended by his mother, carrying on her back a cooked wetherto the king's supper.
Then Patrick said: "The youth who comes from the north, To him is vouchsafed the triumph; To Cothraige he comes, With his little wether on his back.
That nettled me and, instead, I made a plunge for a big wether and fastened both hands into his wool.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wether" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
