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!"

Sometimes it is the result of sheer ignorance, and sometimes of shameful negligence.

Your going out would be sheer waste.

On the second day Burke had to give in from sheer weakness; the next morning when his companion looked at him he saw by the breaking light that his leader was dead.

The main party were following up his tracks; but to plunge unthinkingly into such a desert as lay in front of them were sheer madness.

After all, it is possible for a man without principle, without morality, to begin to make love to a woman in a mere spirit of adventure, in sheer devilry, and to be rather hard hit at the last.

She wept and sighed, until she fell asleep from sheer exhaustion.

Sheer senseless vanityas if that mattered!

It's sheer impossible.

I did not care particularly for him, but I chafed against the restraint, and in sheer waywardness I continued the association.

Perhaps it was the sheer bulk of the newcomer; perhaps, more than this, it was something of stern dignity that oppressed the boy with awe.

So have I seen insects adhere, through sheer force of fear, to a shaken stem, or a perilous branch beaten by a storm-wind.

The story was the greatest literary triumph that Germany had ever known, and in point of sheer artistic power it remains to this day the best of novels in the tragic-sentimental vein.

They looked upon her mystic, glistening hill-tops, and down her awful craters; and from these they seemed to drop a little, as a bird might, and alight on the earth-mountains looming close at hand, with their huge, rough crests and sides, and sheer escarpments white with nakedness; and sogot home again.

" Froebel's Second Gift for children, adapted to the age from one to two or three years, with another little book of directions, has also been published by the same lady, and is perhaps a still greater boon to every nursery; for this is the age when many a child's temper is ruined, and the inclination of the twig wrongly bent, through sheer want of resource and idea, on the part of nurses and mothers.

Yet there were other hours when she put her procrastinations down to sheer cowardice.

" If his sheer adoration of her were enough to save her then she was safe, whatever the peril.

Sheer panic terror of the thing that had taken hold of me.

For one moment he thought wildly of trying to call in help from outside, of frustrating her design by sheer force.

Unless it were a freak of sheer perversity.

Sheer Potterism, all this cant and posturing.

And this simple Englishwoman looked at this sensitive girl in sheer wonderment and alarm.

Do you think, strumpet; that you shall get the better of me by sheer impudence?

So chosen, he had, through sheer force of his commanding nature, easily become a leader among men not without strength and individuality.

In this volume the numerous heroes (so similar in every respect that one might fancy them to be only one hero mysteriously multiplied, like Kehama) and the fair heroines (exactly equalling the heroes in number, we are happy to assure the tenderhearted reader) are not in the least interesting, except for sheer goodness of heart.

They had no money to give return entertainments or even to pay their share of the joint, dances and card parties Arthur decided to sheer off.