You have yourselves condemned the people of a once-mighty planet to be your sheep, herded by a few blacksuits, beguiled by an easy life and meaningless toys, while you tear down the galaxy to protect your poor pastures and preserve your waning power.

He felt like a sheep being herded toward the slaughter.

As perfectly enunciated baas filled the air, we saw groups of sheep being herded into the milking apparatus for their two minutes of productivity.

Many miles below, clouds scuttled about like sheep, herded by a wind they were too far away to feel.

Well, maybe not Loial; he was so absorbed in his notes he would not have noticed a flock of sheep herded into the common room.

And now there was the more immediate concern-the strangers in the distance, who clung to the caravan route as though the caravan were a flock of sheep being herded.

To see them coming to surrender, as Admiral Beatty put it, "like sheep being herded by dogs to their folds", left many feeling cheated.

And those trade unionists who did vote did not do so like sheep herded into the lobbies by their leadership.

He was gazing now at the emerald-misted willows by the pond, and now at a flock of clouds, like little silver sheep, herded by the wind, that were drifting over Rainbow Valley, with rapture in his wide splendid eyes.

The current Rule requires that men become sheep, herded in one direction, following one path, pastured in one field, ever and always, so will it be.