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Meanings of black ewe in английском

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Usage of black ewe in английском
1
The "whole pack of wolves" was just the old black ewe and her little black lamb.
The Spartan Twins
2
And after thou hast made thy prayers to the dead, offer up a black ram and a black ewe.
The Story of the Odyssey
3
The sheep were all grazing contentedly along the hillside, the old black ewe browsing in the very middle of the flock.
The Spartan Twins
4
They began to claw up the earth with their nails, and to tear a black ewe-lamb to pieces with their teeth.
The Works of Horace
5
I've known a white ram so ardent for a black ewe that he fought the black ram till their skulls cracked.
The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story
6
She had but lately returned from a school at which from the first she had had for her bedfellow a black ewe.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1
7
Bring, then, two lambs, a white ram and a black ewe, for Earth and Sun, and we will bring a third for Jove.
The Iliad
8
The white ram is stronger than the black , though the black ewe will turn from him and seek a ram of her own colour.
The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story
9
He offers no black ewes as a reward, but the best horses of the enemy.
Homer and His Age
10
"Anyway, the old black ewe is gone."
The Spartan Twins
11
"Where is the old black ewe?"
The Spartan Twins
12
"Be sure you keep good watch of that old black ewe," said Dromas to the Twins as he went to open the gate.
The Spartan Twins
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Black ewe across language varieties
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