Lamb's coat

Usage examples of fleece.

And the ceiling fair that rose aboon The white and feathery fleece of noon.

And great as is the hide of a yearling ox or stag, which huntsmen call a brocket, so great in extent was the fleece all golden above.

Sauveur, where the stalls of the Knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece, which was founded at Bruges, are to be seen in the choir, and over one of them the arms of Edward IV.

All the same, the vaunted honour and loyalty of the Swiss do not prevent them from fleecing strangers, at least as much as the Dutch, but the greenhorns who let themselves be cheated, learn thereby that it is well to bargain before-hand, and then they treat one well and charge reasonably.

Beginning with thee, O Phoebus, I will recount the famous deeds of men of old, who, at the behest of King Pelias, down through the mouth of Pontus and between the Cyanean rocks, sped well-benched Argo in quest of the golden fleece.

O sir, Miles et Eques of the Garter, Bath, and Golden Fleece, consider your dignities, and my old age--and my great family--nine children--oh, Sir Richard, and eight of them girls!

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All stopped about fifty feet from half-a-dozen animals of a large size, with strong horns bent back and flattened towards the point, with a woolly fleece, hidden under long silky hair of a tawny color.

I was a sheep for the fleecing, and if some of the fleecers got their fingers catched in the shears, it was their own fault.

You are fleeced by these landlords for their private benefit, and as well kept under by the public burdens of State, wherein while the richer sort favour themselves, ye are gnawn to the very bones.

Sauveur with its Gobelin tapestries and choir stalls emblazoned with the Golden Fleece.

She was kind, laughing, and defied me to the conquest of a fleece not of gold, but of ebony, which the youth of Metz had assaulted in vain.

I told him of what had happened to me through his hopeful pupil getting himself fleeced.

Lord Pembroke would have decorated him with the Order of the Golden Fleece at least.

Consequently when he left the carriage at Rinks, he had two of their jujubes sticking in his damp fleece.