17 Verbs to Use for the Word ewes

As he was following the ewes great with young ones, he took him; that he might feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

Leave me, sir; I will go milk my ewes, and weep.

A single spire of smoke arose, And hung, a phantom, in the cold: Three younger monks set forth to close The ewes and lambs within the fold.

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.

In a short while I counted over one hundred ewes and lambs.

When all the ewes have been stinted, the rams should be separated from them again, because it injures ewes to be teased while they are pregnant.

cit., xxv, 14 (Keeping church ewes and not paying rent for them. 1613).

He could no more have pushed little Ally from him than he could have kicked a mothering ewe, or stamped on a new dropped lamb.

They were as lions a-hungered for their prey, killing ewes and lambs, and all the sheep of the flock, whether small or great.

He floundered through, Hogg soon following, and, finding all the family up, they agreed that they must reach the sheep as soon as possible, especially eight hundred ewes that were in one lot together, at the farthest end of the farm.

The Commissioner fined me because I forgot To return an old ewe that was ill of the rot, And a poor wry-necked lamb that we kept for a pet; And he said it was treason such things to forget.

He drove about the country with Yearp seeing the sick animals, the ewes at lambing time and the cows at their calving.

You should also contrive stalls separated from the others in which you may segregate the ewes about to yean, as well as any which may be ailing.

The first time he came, in order to get rid of the brute peaceably, we turned out an old ewe, with which he was well satisfied, but ever since he comes to us as regular as clock-work for his mutton; and if we do not soon contrive to cut his acquaintance, we shall hardly have a sheep in the flock.

I bowt ewes there and t' lambs followed when they wandert back to their heaf.

I trow when, that she saw, within a crack She came with a right thieveless errand back: Misca'd me first; then bade me hound my dog, To wear up three waff ewes strayed on the bog.

Upwards of 3,000 sheep are kept on the estate, of which 1,200 are breeding ewes.

17 Verbs to Use for the Word  ewes