What is "sheepfolds"

Usage examples of "sheepfolds".

He marched them westward, away from the sheepfolds, got them reversed, reversed again, and then tried to convince them that when the column turned, it turned in only one place.

He had won at Norwalk Sheepfolds in spite of his own mistakes, because the enemy had not expected anything.

And I had heard of you: after Norwalk Sheepfolds, everyone heard of you.

He felt curiously suspended, as he had after the Norwalk Sheepfolds, unable to rejoice in the same way as the others, though he felt a deep contentment.

So Mallilie was but a few short miles from the abbey sheepfolds near Oswestry!

He was in the mood to welcome a visitor, and brightened into something approaching animation when Cadfael told him that he was bound for the north-west of the county, to the sheepfolds of Rhydycroesau.

The apologetic report that the horse belonging to the Rhydycroesau sheepfolds had gone missing, due to Brother Cadfael’s reprehensible failure to bar the stable door securely, had been noted with appropriate displeasure by the chapter of the abbey, and repayment in some form awaited him on his return.

Only yesterday I got word from Chester that a rider who gave no name came into one of the granges of the monastery of Beddgelert, and left there his horse, asking that the brothers would give it stable-room until it could be returned to the Benedictine brothers at the sheepfolds of Rhydycroesau, whence it had been borrowed.

A clearing appeared, and little thatched clusters of round wattle-and-daub huts with sheepfolds and cattle corrals around about.

The sheepfolds and pens near them were empty, and the smokeholes in the flat roofs were cold.

It swayed and quivered, rolling toward the man in front of the cottage, then back to the other, like a wolf that stands at an equal distance above two equally attractive sheepfolds, unable to choose.