72 examples of sheepfold in sentences

There stood a ruined sheepfold, and in the corner of two walls some plaids had been stretched to make a tent.

I slithered down into the sheepfold, and pitched headforemost among the worshipping women.

I got her bridle, tumbled over the countryman with a kick, and forced her to the edge of the sheepfold.

Then I bethought myself of saving my bones, and crawled out of the mellay behind the sheepfold.

this morning, Down by the mill, in the ravine, Hans killed a wolf, the very same That in the night to the sheepfold came, And ate up my lamb, that was left outside.

The sheepfold and the sty abound with choice blood.

They are selected by divine Providence, as David was from the sheepfold.

And behind the Swan is there not that fold in the hills where Wordsworth's "Michael" built, or tried to build, his sheepfold?

cage &c (prison) 752; hencoop^, bird cage, cauf^; range, sheepfold, &c (inclosure) 232.

She does not take their ploughs and waggons contemptuously, but rather makes every hovel and every sheepfold, every railed bridge or fallen tree-trunk an agreeably noticeable incident; not a mere speck in the midst of unmeasured vastness, but a piece of our social history in pictorial writing.

In the stockyard he met her coming up from the sheepfold, carrying a young lamb in her arms.

Thomas Thorl, the weaver, a pious zealot, got up at the time of the induction and protested, and said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door of the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

The round sheepfold in the first field looked no larger than a finger ring.

Now and then, as the cottage door swung open on the dame's various cookery errands, one might hear a faint "Baa, baa!" from the sheepfold, where little Félix Michaud was very busy also.

Of course almost the first question Félix asked was about Beppo, and he felt a great load taken off his mind when he learned that the little truant, who had not really strayed very far from the village, had been found and brought home by one of the shepherds, and was even then penned up safe and sound in the sheepfold.

In the deep solitary woods, the sight of a woodman's hut in a clearing, of a farmer's cottage, or of a mere sheepfold, immediately awakens a tender interest, and enlivens the scene with a tinge of romance.

SHEEPFOLD signifies the church, 129.

He sprang clear over the guarding walls of the sheepfold, and opened no way through them for other wanderers.

"Lost in this Christian land, so overflowing with the beauty of the Lord?lost out of this fair sheepfold of Paradise?" "Yes, lost," said Agnes, despairingly,"and if somebody do not save him, lost forever; and it is a brave and noble soul, too,like one of the angels that fell.

Oh, that lack of living appropriating faith may not thus protract the period ere my own passage through the spiritual Jordan, the river of self-renunciation, and death of the "old man," into the Beulah of a thorough introduction to the sheepfold!

Not only both the boys, but everybody else was afraid of these storm-clouds, even the herdsmen and the sheep, as well as the longhaired, fourfooted guards of the sheepfold.

As soon as she is strong enough she will have to go to the sheepfold herself, and ask for it at the hut.

From tomorrow on, she is to come to your sheepfold to drink the whey.

" They went together a little way, but Bacha turned to the clearings and Palko ran back again to the hut at the sheepfold.

And who can describe the joy of Madame Slavkovsky when they took her again for the first time to the sheepfold.

72 examples of  sheepfold  in sentences