| 单词 | white sheep |
| 例句 | We drove over to Fifth Avenue, so warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer Sunday afternoon that I wouldn't have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I could see a few houses and barns scattered about, surrounded by golden fields, or pale green pieces of pasture with dots of white sheep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It is a brown pasture with white sheep. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who eats more, the white sheep or the black sheep?” the Spaniard joked. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Portugal, Mirandese Spoken Here - and Only Here 2012-01-17T18:34:03Z One season there was a herd of two-dimensional white sheep; another time there were hulking figures that at first seemed to be molded from colorful dripping wax; and once there was a 25-foot-high twisted chimney. Inside Art: Met Show Completes Its Set of Bronzinos 2010-03-04T23:28:00Z J had been estranged from the rest of the Cody brood for his protection; his smack-addled mom, it turns out, was the family's renegade white sheep. Animal Kingdom: A Cool and Creepy Crime Drama 2010-08-14T06:50:00Z Although every observed sheep adds confidence to the theory, the scientist only has to visit the mainland and observe one white sheep to prove the hypothesis wrong. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z To understand herd immunity, Gandhi suggests imagining a field of white sheep. Fauci and others look ahead to the holidays: Put another leaf in the table 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z They joke that Robert is the “white sheep” in the family. Opinion | The Lawyers Who Did Not Break 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z The main street became a sea of woolly white sheep, baahing and nuzzling their handlers to the delight of children watching open-mouthed from the sidewalk. It’s Bears vs. Sheep in the Pyrenees. The Shepherds Are Traumatized. 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The People’s party’s campaign posters showed a white sheep atop a Swiss flag, kicking away a black sheep. Swiss voters reject nationalist plan to expel foreigners for minor crimes 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z The People's Party's campaign posters showed a white sheep atop a Swiss flag, kicking away a black sheep. Projections based on returns from some polling station indicated that Swiss voters rejected a proposal by a nationalist party that could lead to automatic expulsions of foreigners who commit even low-level crimes 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Once there are numerous pink sheep blocking it, “the virus can’t find two white sheep standing together, and can’t pass from one sheep to another,” she says. Fauci and others look ahead to the holidays: Put another leaf in the table 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z The Swiss People's Party's website, for example, shows a white sheep atop a Swiss flag, kicking away a black sheep. Swiss voters cast ballots this weekend in a referendum championed by a popular nationalist party but opposed by the government that would allow for automatic expulsions of foreigners who violate the law _ even second-time offenders for lesser crimes. 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z To the question of how a blue-eyed blond could be Navajo, he quips, "I'm the white sheep of the family." Trying to share Monument Valley without ruining it 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z "There were so many variations in the colours produced because Brethyn Llwyd was made from the wool of black sheep, which was much more scarce than wool from a white sheep," he said. Trouble at mill for WW1 army outfits 2014-02-28T07:39:29Z They jokingly refer to Mr. Khuzami as "the white sheep" of the family. DealBook: S.E.C. Enforcement Chief, Robert Khuzami, Steps Down 2013-01-09T18:07:05Z "I don't know," answered the divine drily, "whether they are black or white sheep; but I know, if they are long here, they are pretty sure to be fleeced." Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:33.730Z How fast the scenes come flocking to My mind, as white sheep jostle through The gap, when pasture bars are down, And pass into the twilight brown. Songs Ysame 2012-03-04T03:00:13.113Z Lopsided white sheep faced a pair of stout rabbits evidently suffering from the mumps. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z When he threw over a white sheep among the black ones, it became black immediately; and in like manner, when he threw a black sheep over, it was instantly changed to white. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z There was a bright fire in the hearth and beyond the steel fender a thick hearthrug of long white sheep's wool. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z The lawyer ungraciously put the question, "Doctor, these are members of your flock; may I ask, do you look upon them as white sheep or as black sheep?" Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:33.730Z The rating icon system is not without fault—a white sheep represents a good priest while a black one is a bad priest. Yelp for Religion: Website Lets You Rate Your Priest 2011-08-03T13:31:59Z "When the month of May comes, the shearers come: they shear by night, they shear by day; for a month, and a fortnight, and three weeks they shear the wool of these white sheep." Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z A flock of white sheep On a red hill; Here they go, there they go, Now they stand still! Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z The vote represents the culmination of a campaign launched by the party in 2007 known as the "black sheep campaign" after SVP posters that showed three white sheep kicking a black sheep out of Switzerland. Swiss Consider Deporting Foreign Criminals 2010-08-14T01:55:00Z The Island of the Black and the White Sheep This had a brazen palisade dividing it in two, and a flock of black sheep on one side and of white sheep on the other. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race But I can't bear the silly things they sing here, about goslings and black and white sheep. A Sister's Love A Novel Further, we must exclude others who boast themselves to be white sheep in the flock of the Lord, when they have the plumage of crows. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. The moonbeams shimmered on the grass like flocks of white sheep. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers She could see nothing but the 209 mountains of Cumberland, and the white sheep wandering about their green sides. A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story The white lamb bleats but followeth on— Follow the clean white sheep. Mopsa the Fairy When you go out you see very sleek cattle, very white sheep, very fat children. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June Farther on, the different green of the hill turf, and white sheep, feeding in an extended crescent, the bow of the crescent gradually descending the sward. The Hills and the Vale Look around you, and you never saw such perfectly white sheep. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) One has the opportunity, too, of noticing whether the eight white sheep on the tiny hands are really white enough to do the weaving. Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home Why do white sheep furnish more wool than the black ones? Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 After thirty days and thirty nights a fat white sheep appeared; they cut off his left ear. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 Dear me, what pretty white sheep such shepherds must have in their flocks! Our Children Scenes from the Country and the Town Ay, there the white sheep nibbled, and the black cattle grazed; there they baa'd and they lowed upon a thousand hills—a crowd of cones, all green as emerald. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) "I want to know, Mamma," said Emily Hotspur, the day before the ball, "whether Cousin George is a black sheep or a white sheep?" Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite The Icelandic sheep are very small, and we noticed often wander in pairs, one black and one white: they mostly have horns; the wool of the white sheep is spotless. A Girl's Ride in Iceland Like white sheep they wander here and there for forage, and my suspicion of bad weather comes only when the tempest has whipped them to a gallop. Chimney-Pot Papers The comparison of the clouds to flocks of white sheep that, instead of wandering across a meadow, are wandering across the sky. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature "A sheep, a sheep, a great white sheep!" cried the miller's son; and then how the people of Wraye did laugh! The Story-teller Also she helped Ciccio when she could, and Maria was teaching her to spin the white sheep's wool into coarse thread. The Lost Girl It was a big field sprinkled profusely with white sheep. Chance A Tale in Two Parts My little Bo-Peep does not dream of white sheep— Her day's work reaches into the night; On her pallet of straw, a few hours of rest— For her task she is up with the light. Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State We have absolute idylls of white sheep in our garden, though we cannot go to the length, of course, of wearing those old costumes of the nymphs and shepherdesses. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette And it was just then that Grandmother Grey's old white sheep that had wandered into the wood that eve came plodding through the bushes. The Story-teller In the earliest chapters of the Bible there are rules given for influencing the colours of breeds, and black and white sheep are spoken of as separated. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 On it illustrious Vulcan also formed a pasture in a beautiful grove full of white sheep, and folds, and covered huts and cottages. The Iliad of Homer (1873) One need say nothing of the inadequacy of the judgment pronounced, the summary classification of the myriads of humanity as white sheep or black goats, or the character of the rewards and punishments allotted. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles The black and the white sheep were kept separate from each other. Byeways in Palestine Colonel Tod states that the Bhīls will eat of nothing white in colour, as a white sheep or goat; and their grand adjuration is ‘By the white ram.’ The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II I tried at first to make him hold in a bit; but what was the use of a black sheep like me tryin’ to make a white sheep o’ him! Twice Bought The great egret, too, was there, with its snowy plumage and orange bill; the delicately-formed Louisiana heron, with droves of sand-hill cranes, appearing in the distance like flocks of white sheep. The Boy Hunters The horse and the cow, in great grief, came and stood by the side of the white sheep as he lay on the grass. The Nursery, No. 109, January, 1876, Vol. XIX. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers I imagined myself the shepherdess of a troop of beautiful white sheep, with two dogs by my side which kept the sheep in order at a sign from me. Marie Claire And on one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flock of black sheep. The Mabinogion Vol. 1 Rounded hills, soft looking and of the brightest green, ran down toward the sea, with really white sheep pastured on them. Across the Fruited Plain No sound was heard from bird or insect, and the only movement was among his white sheep, which noiselessly, like a distant stream of foamy water, seemed to flow down a winding path. Roads from Rome But, where he chose to go, the white sheep would go; and, what he did the white sheep would do. The Nursery, No. 109, January, 1876, Vol. XIX. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Jean led his flock home at eventide, white sheep and black sheep and frolicsome lambs, not one was missing. Christmas Stories And Legends At last, on Maundy Thursday, they reach another island, where are many abundant springs full of fish, and flocks of white sheep as large as cattle, sometimes so thick as to conceal the earth. Brendan's Fabulous Voyage A Lecture delivered on January 19, 1893, before the Scottish Society of Literature and Art She could have kissed the soft white sheep dotting the fields and lying in gentle, huddled groups under the trees. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" I heard an indistinct, dull murmur, half of the sea and half of the wind, and, looking far out to sea, could fancy I saw little white sheep on the waves. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses They were glad to run back to the field; and the white sheep was quite ill with fright all the rest of the day. The Nursery, No. 109, January, 1876, Vol. XIX. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers They were white sheep and black sheep and frolicsome lambs in the shepherd's flock, and each one had a name of its own. Christmas Stories And Legends His way lead through a meadow, where the clover grew and the white sheep and baby lambs were feeding together in the sunshine. Mother Stories "You're separating the sheep from the goats; only there's three divisions here, white sheep, black sheep, and goats." The Little Colonel's House Party Then he led the old white sheep to the brook and washed its wool. The Child's World Third Reader He crept through the gap; and, of course, the white sheep crept through as well. The Nursery, No. 109, January, 1876, Vol. XIX. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers And therein the glorious divine artist placed a wide pasture full of white sheep, with folds and tents and huts. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) On one of the Faroe Islands, not more than half a mile in diameter, the half-wild native black sheep do not readily mix with imported white sheep. Darwinism (1889) She lay down and counted white sheep, just as grandma said she did when she couldn't sleep. Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 18, May 3, 1914 In looking at these flocks I remembered a conundrum containing the inquiry, "Why do white sheep eat more hay than black ones?" Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life The white sheep saw it too, and they both went some way. The Nursery, No. 109, January, 1876, Vol. XIX. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers The white sheep of Yukon Territory range southward until in the Sheslay Mountains they touch the sphere of influence of the black sheep, where the disease could easily be transmitted. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation The white lamb bleats but followeth on— Follow the clean white sheep. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. In the afternoon, as we lay in the woods, an old man, a shepherd, came with a flock of white sheep which followed close behind him. Three Times and Out In Siberia the question and its reply would be incorrect, as the white sheep are in the minority. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life The white sheep did not stop to think. The Nursery, No. 109, January, 1876, Vol. XIX. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Is it not pitiful to think of animals like the caribou, moose, white sheep and bear trying to survive on the naked ridges and bald mountains of Yukon Territory and Alaska! Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation In that small New-England town, where, like a great white sheep, Father Boardman now led his docile flock to the fold, whoever looked long enough would see many new folds and many new shepherds. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 The lawyer jocularly and ungraciously put the question; "Doctor, these are members of your flock; may I ask, do you look upon them as white sheep or as black sheep?" Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character All about them the sheep were sleeping, too, but the solemn white sheep dogs were wide awake. Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls Heusinger has shown that white sheep and pigs are injured by the ingestion of certain plants, while the pigmented individuals may eat them without harm. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 British Columbia , inhabited by a magnificent big-game fauna embracing the moose, elk, caribou of two species, white sheep, black sheep, big-horn sheep, mule deer, white-tailed deer, mountain goat, grizzly, black and inland white bears. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation The white sheep lay scattered on the plain, and slumber with them. The Pilgrims of the Rhine "I don't know," answered the professor drily, "whether they are black or white sheep, but I know that if they are long here they are pretty sure to be fleeced." Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character When she closed her eyes fancies came like flocks of white sheep running out of a green wood. Poor White When he threw a white sheep among the black ones it became black, and when he threw a black sheep among the white ones, it became white instantly. Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic This was the first great band of white sheep I had seen, and I watched them at this close range with much interest. American Big Game in Its Haunts M. de Luynes imparted to his colleagues what was in preparation, and warned them that they would be asked for their names in order that the white sheep might be separated from the scarlet goats. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness Business being finished, Galahad, who presided, stood up, looking, in his white duck suit among his darkly-clad companions, like a white sheep among black ones, and begged leave to order "dlasses" from the front room. Old Creole Days Until you have got somewhat into the spirit of your task, you cannot help looking sometimes at the roses which frame your window, and the green hill you see through it, with white sheep. The Recreations of a Country Parson So they took a black branch and threw it toward the white sheep. Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic My success with the white sheep had come only with the hardest kind of work, but I now had five really fine heads—which I later increased to six, my limit. American Big Game in Its Haunts The rest of us could not see where any catch could exist, since Felix solemnly vowed, 'cross his heart, white sheep did eat more than black. The Story Girl Does not Darwin assert that while white sheep and pigs are upset by certain plants dark-coloured individuals escape. Confessions of a Beachcomber I have offered to thee a white sheep, spotless and undefiled. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life All over the flats were cows pasturing, black cows, contrasting with flocks of white sheep, which were gathered together, bleating. Thyrza In two weeks the rutting season of the moose would begin, and in the meantime I wanted four more fine specimens of the white sheep. American Big Game in Its Haunts So he steeled himself to blankness, like a sleepless man imagining white sheep in a gate.... Huntingtower Zoe's love of color was soothed by these emerald fields, dotted with white sheep and red cows. A Woman-Hater Then the others when they beheld these ran upon them and quickly cut off the herds of oxen and fair flocks of white sheep, and slew the shepherds withal. The Iliad All young women were divided by old Lady Lufton into sheep and goats,—very white sheep and very black goats;—and Grace was to be a sheep. The Last Chronicle of Barset It was also my plan, if I was successful in all these objects, to spend the fall on the Kenai Peninsula in pursuit of the white sheep and the moose. American Big Game in Its Haunts Sheep have a similar latent tendency to become dark-coloured, and we have seen with what prepotent force a ram with a few black spots, when crossed with white sheep of various breeds, coloured its offspring. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 Dear, there are pastures as gay as glad laughter, Dotted with hundreds of woolly white sheep, Dear, you can pat them, for they'll follow after You, as you sleep.... Cross Roads Also the glorious lame god wrought therein a pasture in a fair glen, a great pasture of white sheep, and a steading, and roofed huts, and folds. The Iliad Drowsing there in the old theatre in the sun, Daphne presently saw, stepping daintily through one of the entrances at the side, an audience of white sheep. Daphne, an autumn pastoral By his wondrous art, he has changed a black sheep into a white sheep. Thais Verily there is neither pain nor grief of heart, when a man is smitten in battle fighting for his own possessions, whether cattle or white sheep. The Odyssey Done into English prose It was a big field sprinkled profusely with white sheep. Chance A Tale in Two Parts |
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