black sheep

“The eldest brother the Marquis of Haverston, the second an earl, the third the black sheep of the family, and Anthony a close second.”

Tender Rebel

“In a nearby field black sheep grazed among black-eyed Susans.”

Roc and a Hard Place

“One day a swivel-chair pilot, an equip - ment officer, made the amazing discovery that there was a black sheep in his flock.”

The HurricaneStory

“His handsome face bloated into the plain round pock-marked face of the bailiff’s black sheep son.”

Simon & Schuster: Songs of Love & Death

“Euphrates, from the mouth to the sources of those rivers, was reduced to his obedience: he entered Edessa; and the Turkmans of the black sheep were chastised for the sacrilegious pillage of a caravan of Mecca.”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“I never heard him utter an irrevocable judgment, even when the black sheep of the estate, a foul-mouthed farmer of whose malpractices he had had to complain to the landlord, had accused him of some dishonest trick or other.”

Maigret's Memoirs

“His father was the black sheep of a prosperous but unforgiving Irish family, his mother was the daughter of the German butcher in Winton; when she insisted on marrying Luke senior, she also was disowned.”

The Thorn Birds

“Those who saw him told me he looked pleased; but he sent me no message showing a change of viewpoint, and the gulf between the family and its black sheep remained unbridged.”

The Story of a Pioneer