I have eaten no wethers of thy flock, nor beast hath destroyed none.

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

To know him properly, one needs to see him at work in a country where sheep abound, to watch him adroitly rounding up his scattered charges on a wide-stretching moorland, gathering the wandering wethers into close order and driving them before him in unbroken company to the fold; handling the stubborn pack in a narrow lane, or holding them in a corner of a field, immobile under the spell of his vigilant eye.

An outburst of boisterous laughter from the Austrians greeted the dignified wether, and drowned the cries of the bitterly disappointed cadets.

He knew the wether from the day when it had been a lamb, he understood it and was one with ita kinsman, a fellow-creature.

Sibyrtas owns yon wethers; a Thurian is he:

A few had taken quarters and were coiling in their bunks When we shore the six-tooth wethers from the plain.

And after they had spoken, Raguel commanded to slay a wether, and make ready a feast.

There you may find floundering in the unstable drifts "tainted wethers" of the wild sheep, faint from age and hunger; easy prey.

David said to Saul: I thy servant kept my father's sheep, and there came a lion and a bear and took away a wether from the middle of my flock, and I pursued after, and took it again from their mouths, and they arose and would have devoured me, and I caught them by the jaws and slew them.

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