Word: shepherd
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Aubrey had a foot in both worlds. He had an Elizabethan faith in "Marvels, Magick . . . Apparitions . . . Second Sighted Men," along with an undeveloped penchant for scientific research. As a child he saw the old-fashioned shepherd leading his flock with a flute; in his old age he dreamed of emigrating to the "delicious Countrey" of New York, where the people "have such vast Snowes that they are forced to digg their wayes out of their houses, else they would be stifled...
...Shepherd. In New Plymouth, New Zealand, a priest at St. Joseph's Church advised his congregation to "put your notes in the plate and keep your silver to back Earldale [at 10 to 1] in the last race tomorrow," but when the horse won, the clergyman admitted that at the last moment he had switched...
After five years, with the help of the scriptures and horoscopes, they were led to a shepherd's family on the grassy upland meadows not far from Naribanchin itself. There they found what they had been searching for-a five-year-old boy said to have been born on the very day and at the very hour of the old hutukhtu's death. That was the beginning of the new hutukhtu's education and travels...
Although a pastoral work--the mythical story of the love of the nymph Galatea for Acis, a youthful shepherd--Lowell's production will, following the original, make "the acting secondary to the delivery of the music," according to Mathis...
...Shall Strike the Shepherd." Bluntly, he called Cardinal Mindszenty's arrest and sentence "a most serious outrage which inflicts a deep wound not only on your distinguished College and on the Church, but also every upholder of the dignity and liberty of man . . . The principal object of the trial was to disrupt the Catholic Church in Hungary and precisely for the purpose set forth in Sacred Scripture: 'I shall strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be dispersed' ... Now that things have come to such a pass that this most worthy prelate has been...