estray

• The faithful shepherd leaves the ninety and nine safely grazing in the field, and searches through briar and thicket for this estray from God's fold. —  UUpdates - All updates
• A meeting was called and it was agreed that each man should build fence in proportion to the amount of stock he owned, and that the public corral should be used for the estray pound. —  The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite
• The canoe was soon made fast, and then they resumed their hunt for the estray. —  The Hunters of the Ozark
• If she really was an estray, she had missed two milkings--that of the previous night and the morning that succeeded It was certain, therefore, that if she was stolen, the thief had attended to her milking. —  The Hunters of the Ozark
• That our beloved Esther has not fallen a victim to her father's deliberate precautions resulted mainly from accidental finding of a juvenile human estray, without known guardian or antecedents. —  Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898

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