10 examples of bell-wether in sentences

To say that Mr. Laing is absolutely certain of the all-sufficiency of evolutionism to explain everything that is knowable to the human mind, that he does not hint for a moment that this philosophy is found by the "bell-wethers" of science to be every day less satisfactory as a complete rationale of the physical cosmos; is really to understate the case for sheer lack of words to express the intensity of his conviction.

What, a bell-wether in Paul's Churchyard!

In a panic, a sand-storm, a fusillade from Bedouins, a mirage, and a race for water, if Abdullah and Ali could grasp these lanyards, the caravan was saved, since the other camels followed the dun leader and the black racer as sheep follow the bell-wether.

They are like sheep following the bell-wether just as he leads them.

guijarro, m., pebble. guión, m., bell-wether, bell-sheep.

If you listen you hear the tinkling of the bell-wether; if you look you see a solitary rabbit.

The world, it seemed to one of them, was uncreate, gone, and non-existent; only this remainedthe shadowy downs stretching on every side to infinity, and three shadowy riders plodding across them; all shadowy, all unreal until a bell-wether got up under the horses' heads, and with a confused rush and scurry of feet a hundred Southdowns scampered into the grey unknown.

Thirty or forty wagons would start off together on beautiful moonlight nights with about twice as many men of every age, from the half-grown boy to the seventy-year-old village magistrate, who, as an experienced bell-wether, led the procession as proudly and self-consciously as when he took his seat in the court-room.

They had tied the bell-wether to the axle, and, as I started, men and dog drove the sheep after me.

I consider that the best privilege that attaches to my condition, that of the 'bell-wether' of Savannah tonthe universally-accepted bore!

10 examples of  bell-wether  in sentences