Yeaned
Usage examples for Yeaned:
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See, sick at heart I drive my she- goats on, And this one, O my Tityrus, scarce can lead: For 'mid the hazel- thicket here but now She dropped her new- yeaned twins on the bare flint, Hope of the flock- an ill, I mind me well, Which many a time, but for my blinded sense, The thunder- stricken oak foretold, oft too From hollow trunk the raven's ominous cry.
"The Bucolics and Eclogues" – Virgil -
Behold, my goats I am driving, Heartsick, further away; this one scarce, Tityrus, lead I; For having here yeaned twins just now among the dense hazels, Hope of the flock, ah me!
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
In a copse near where she stood a little bird was busy with her fledglings, and from a meadow came the plaintive bleat of a late yeaned lamb.
"Lancashire Idylls (1898)" – Marshall Mather -
There are perhaps some little calves, some little new- yeaned lambs- it may be twins, whose mothers have rejected them.
"Shirley" – Charlotte Brontë