ewe lamb
chilver

Or maybe not mad, but just sheep-simple, for God knew he needed watching like a guileless ewe lamb.

It's kicking and yelling I plan to go, not meek as a mewling ewe lamb.

"Did you come about the ewe lambs, Townsend?

The word silver rhymes with the English word 'chilver', which is an ewe lamb.

After they are born, "I raise them," she said, sitting on her knees in a stall, bottle-feeding a newborn ewe lamb.

He should have known that she wouldn't think grubbing about among tombs and bones a proper occupation for her ewe lamb.

Sacrifice of the ewe lambs with the usual prayers used for each god of the two triads.

Forced into it, I gather, by one of those strong-minded mothers, a widow, determined to make her ewe lamb into a doctor.

Behind the Gate three ewe lambs are sacrificed to Tefre Iovie.

You stretched it out and like King David you took the poor man's one ewe lamb," There was a silence.

O every one is like a flower, Or like an ewe lamb of the king That comes from water at the hour Of even.

Sean Courtney, faced with the sight of somebody actually tupping his ewe lamb, was fully capable of destroying both them and himself.

There is seldom enough winter keep for the whole of the breeding stock, and ewe lambs are often sent away to winter in less rugged conditions.

I shall simply say that Lord Hailsham's 'little ewe lamb' has not in practice proved to be the liberalising measure which he had hoped.

They received sacrifices of three pregnant sows, three suckling pigs and three ewe lambs respectively.

The Perendale is characteristically a high fertility animal, and has great potential to produce a prime ewe lamb when crossed with the Merino.

An excellent entry of almost 2,500 hoggets, ewes and ewe lambs at the Braid Sheddings second sale met an excellent trade.

On the eighth day after that, the one being cleansed was to present two male lambs, one ewe lamb, choice flour, and oil for the priest to offer.

Ewe lambs and female sheep are primarily affected and are struck predominately in the rear quadrant of the animal due to fecal staining.

The ceremony was held in Rome in a building called the Hall of the Shoemakers (atrium sutorium) and involved the sacrifice of a ewe lamb.

For example, Finnsheep ewe lambs may reach puberty as early as 3 to 4 months, and Merino ewes sometimes reach puberty at 18 to 20 months.

The ewe lambs had to be collected and sent to a lowland farm so that they might escape the grim conditions on the mountains during winter, the savage weather and poor food.

It is a reference to the Miorita, or "ewe lamb" - a centuries-old tale of a young shepherd who is warned by the lamb that other jealous shepherds intend to kill him.

One day a traveler came to visit the rich man; instead of taking one of his own sheep, the rich man seized the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for his guest.