Word: ewe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nurserymen before planting; a zinc alloy tablet, 5" x 6", fastened. to larger trees or mounted on a standard to be placed at the side of the tree after planting. For zinc tablets, individual nameplates are available to bear the names and other commemorative details of patriotic planters.-ED. Ewe Lamb...
Somewhere in the Holy Writ an account is given of a man who had one little ewe lamb and some miserable scoundrel came and snatched it away from him. The fair city of Augusta had one little ewe lamb and TIME has come and snatched it away from her. The lamb was Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who has visited the Bon Air for the past 20 years every spring, who is an honorary member of our Bar Association, who preaches to us every time he comes here, who is our chiefest drawing card and of social and educational value...
Wrote His Grace the Duke of Portland, twice Master of the Horse under Queen Victoria: "The thing is a stargazing, ewe-necked thoroughbred." British Horseman G. G. Cross gave it as his opinion that it was "a cross between a giraffe and a four-legged ostrich." Loudest objector was Lieut-Colonel Maxwell Fielding McTaggart, author of numerous books on equitation, who for the past three years has been carrying on a bitter dispute in British newspapers and illustrated weeklies with a fellow horse-author, Lieut-Colonel S. G. Goldschmidt, on the proper method of jumping a fence.* Last week...
...queer household is sold into slavery; and nothing is left of Chrysis but the memory of a few young men, and the epitaph she once spoke for herself with no one to hear it but the sea: "Stranger, near this spot lies Chrysis, daughter of Arches of Andros: the ewe that has strayed from the flock lives many years in one day and dies at a great age when the sun sets...