During their hours of leisure, therefore, the Birchites were left pretty much to their own devices, or more often to those of Master Fred Acton, who liked, as has already been stated, to assume the office of bellwether to the little flock.

From time immemorial, immense flocks of sheep have been reared on these downs.

And if she sees us with you two, she might decide that birds of a feather flock together, if you know what I mean.

'These fruitful fields, these numerous flocks I see, Are others' gain, but killing cares to me; To me the children of my youth are lords, Cool in their looks, but hasty in their words: Wants of their own demand their care; and who Feels his own want and succours others too?

I had frequently heard and read of those vast flocks of wild pigeons which periodically pursue their flight to milder latitudes: and, as the boat was now approaching the centre of the state of Ohio, where myriads of these birds were seen the year before, I anxiously watched the horizon for their appearance.

Its harbour, where of old we read the sea-fowl were to be seen in innumerable flocks, and the whole place was musical with the cry of the wild-swan, has been wholly reclaimed, and the famous Hushing Well no longer exists at all.

But over this comparatively scanty flock were set no fewer than eighteen bishops and four archbishops; while England, with 12,000 parishes, was contented with twenty-four bishops and two archbishops.

It is nevertheless difficult to catch a glimpse of them, on account of the enormous flocks of humming birds, which darken the air in that genial clime.

Sooner shall trembling doves Escaped the hawk's sharp talons, in mid air, Assail their dangerous foe, than he once more Disturb the peaceful flocks.

Close by, the two score sheep stood in a compact flock, with heads towards the panting dogs.

Am I fit pastor for the faithful flock To guide their souls that murdered thus mine own?

A huge sea of verdure, with crossing and intersecting promontories of massive and tufted groves was tenanted by numberless flocks and herds which seemed to wander unrestrained and unbounded through the rich pastures.

~In the San Joaquin.~ Across the hills the screeching blue-jays fly In countless flocks, and as they hasten by The children look up from their merry play To watch them slowly, slowly fade away; And night steals up the corners of the sky.

"The young lamb's heart amid the full-grown flocks.

They were plentiful enough to form a loose flock, but each pair kept to itself, the two individuals always close together and always separated from the rest.

A woeful time it was for me, 55 To see the end of all my gains, The pretty flock which I had reared With all my care and pains, To see it melt like snow away For me it was a woeful day.

At first I was contented with tending a visionary flock, and sighing some pastoral name to the echo of the cascade under the bridge ...

When one set of innocents had been so thoroughly trimmed that they compared notes and began to avoid you, you had only to pick up another bunch of lambs, for New York contains many distinct flocks of the species.

And the old gentleman smiled, for he was thinking of his own easy conquests with the wretched flock of dirty, unkempt peasant girls who wrapped the oranges in the shipping houses of Alcira.

Neither can the bears be regarded as enemies; for, though they seek to vary their every-day diet of nuts and berries by an occasional meal of mutton, they prefer to hunt tame and helpless flocks.

You should not have troubled yourself, my dear sir, and you should adhere to that; I belong so little to the holy flock.

In the fields, the pecoraro, in shaggy sheep-skin breeches, the very type of the mythic Pan, leaned against his staff, half-asleep, and tended his woolly flock,or the contadino drove through dark furrows the old plough of Virgil's time, that figures in the vignettes to the "Georgics," dragged tediously along by four white oxen, yoked abreast.

I do not see at first why he cries and then over the hill come the ewes, a dense gray flock of them, huddling toward me.

THE WILD TURKEY.In its wild state, the turkey is gregarious, going together in extensive flocks, numbering as many as five hundred.

And now the sun wheeled round his westering car And led still evening on: from every field Came thronging the fat flocks to bield and byre.