sheep-fold

A truce to thy tale of how the sheep-fold fares; I have battles to fight and spears to wield.

Rhesus 2008

I have heard that a sparrow was once flitting over a sheep-fold, when he looked at it carefully and behold, he saw a great eagle swoop down upon a newly weaned lamb and carry it off in his claws and fly away.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

A truce to thy tale of how the sheep-fold fares; I have battles to fight and spears to wield.

Rhesus 2008

She reached the opposite gate, and felt her way along its rails and the rails of the sheep-fold, till her hand encountered the pricking of the gorsy wall.

Adam Bede 2004

Have I not kept the flock of this sheep-fold from the wolves for thirty years?

Old Mortality 2004

Close by this low wall the Highlander guided Waverley, and, in order probably to make him sensible of his danger, or perhaps to obtain the full credit of his own dexterity, he intimated to him, by sign and example, that he might raise his head so as to peep into the sheep-fold.

Waverley 2004

It proceeded from the corner of a low and ruinous sheep-fold, the walls of which were made of loose stones, as is usual in Scotland.

Waverley 2004

The wall of the sheep-fold indeed concealed them as they lay, but any advance beyond its shelter seemed impossible without certain discovery.

Waverley 2004

Without returning the salutations of the Bedouins, who loudly summoned us to stop and give them the news, we trotted forwards in search of a deserted sheep-fold.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

Early next morning the young farmer began to go his rounds, and the sheep-fold was the first place he visited.

The Lilac Fairy Book 2003