They'll hasten here at harvest, They will shear and bind; They'll come with elfin music On a western wind; All night they'll sit among the sheaves, Or herd the kine that stray

It is proposed to shear away huge pieces of German territory.

That time was Laban gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away the idols of her father.

Trow ye that I shall send the meat that I have made ready for them that shear my sheep and send it to men that I know not?

Absalom hated Amnon ever after, and when Absalom on a time did do shear his sheep he prayed all his brethren to come eat with him, and made them a feast like a king's feast.

So full of hope is Isaiah that the nation shall not utterly be destroyed, that he names his son Shear-jashub,"a remnant shall return."

I garner the best of your manhood's prime Then quit them when shattered in health; I bring to heel the ones that you love And smiling I shear them of wealth.

[Shear-penny.]

I eat my own lamb, My own chicken and ham, I shear my own sheep and wear it.

oust &c (eject) 297; divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach^; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume^, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb &c (suck in) 296; draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.

Our hay was yet to maw, And our corn was yet to shear;

Our bonnie rigs theirsel', Reca' my waes to mind, Our puir dumb beasties tell O' a' that I ha'e tyned; For whae our wheat will saw, And whae our sheep will shear, Sin' my a' gaed awa', In the fa' o' the year?

Does that mean that I should have to shear my wife's silken tresses?

From The Dalles to Shear's bridge on the Deschutes we made a record run.

Mrs. Shear also kindly gave us some food to eat on the road.

a soft fleece, to make a coat, I'll give the day I shear My brindled ewe(no hand but mine shall touch it)to my dear.

Shear the black sheep.

Shear the black sheep.

Will the utilitarian and unsparing science of these latter days, or of the days to come, shear away these beautiful tresses, and leave the brow and temples of the Old Country they have graced bare and brown under the bald and burning sun of material economy?

Full black and griesly did his Face appear, Besmear'd with Smoke that nigh his Eye-sight blent, With rugged Beard and Hoary shaggy Heare, The which he never wont to comb, or comely shear.' 35.

"The more they gather to the fold, the more we'll shear."

As the Beagle passed through the west channel, the shear or first beacon on the west reefs was on with a round-topped hill some distance up the river.

" "I observe a practice which I learned from my father," said Agrasius, "not only never to shear my sheep, but not even to have my own hair cut on the decrease of the moon, for fear that I might become bald.

One of these is the fleece which men shear or pull from sheep and goats, the other, which is more widely practised, that from milk and cheese: the Greek writers indeed actually treat this separately under the title

"Never shear their sheep till they are dead!"