ewe-lamb

She shrank from leaving her ewe-lamb, white as herself, alone in the midst of a selfish world that sought to strip her of her fleece and grasp her treasures.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

But, as if this young creature was always to be in some heavy trouble, her ewe-lamb began to be ailing, pining and sickly.

A House to Let 2007

These he seeks, but seldom meets; these, if by chance he finds, he would fain retain for ever, and when separation deprives him of them he feels as if some ruthless hand had snatched from him his only ewe-lamb.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

By my soul I thought the parson looked directly at me; and at that moment I cast my eye full on my ewe-lamb. —

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

He had made his way like a wolf into her little fold, and torn her ewe-lamb and left her maimed and mutilated for life.

The Small House at Allington 2004

And there came a guest unto the rich man; and he spared to take of the flock of his own ewe-lambs, and from the herds of his own oxen, to entertain the guest; but he took the ewe-lamb of the poor man, and set it before the man that had come unto him.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds; but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe-lamb, which he possessed, and nourished up; and it had been with him and with his children together: it did eat of his own bread, and drank of his cup, and was to him as a daughter.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

A lost ewe-lamb, a lamb of God, stripped and violated and slaughtered.

The Virgin In The Ice Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1982

When my poor little ewe-lamb went out into the world, I did not fear any shearing he might encounter in America.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

Brown has paintings there for which he paid his thousands, and, being well advised, they are worth the thousands he paid; but this ewe-lamb that he got for nothing always gives him a secret exaltation in his own eyes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various