sheepfold

• ‘As for Stewart’s enclosure which he chooses to regard as such a mystery, it reminds me of nothing so much as a sheepfold Ah, well,’ said Owen, ‘there is one sheepfold we must all come to, and that is rectangular, too. —  The Whispering Knights - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 58
• About 250 yards after going through a gate to the left of a sheepfold, the wall on your left swings left. —  Whitehaven News headlines
• Do you know what a sheepfold is? —  Harry's Ladder to Learning
• Continuing the allegory, which the recorder speaks of as a parable, Jesus designated Himself as the door to the sheepfold, and made plain that only through Him could the under-shepherds rightly enter. —  Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
• And as a wolf prowling [59-92]about some crowded sheepfold, when, beaten sore of winds and rains, he howls at the pens by midnight; safe beneath their mothers the lambs keep bleating on; he, savage and insatiate, rages in anger against the flock he cannot reach, tired by the long-gathering madness for food, and the throat unslaked with blood: even so the Rutulian, as he gazes on the walled camp, kindles in anger, and indignation is hot in his iron frame. —  The Aeneid of Virgil

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