A pen for sheep

Usage examples of sheepfold.

His pursuit had bogged down in the farmlands, their zealous chase balked by timber fences, sheepfolds, and occupied bull pens.

DantleDantle Longleg, not Dantle Squint at the other end of the boroughhad a sow who snored just the same way while she slept under the wagon shelter beside the sheepfold.

Four tumbledown one-room houses of unmortared stone surrounded an empty sheepfold and a well.

Paks found a body the Clarts had missed: a young girl or woman who had been trapped in a burning sheepfold.

Enter by the door into the sheepfold Sell all to purchase the pearl of great price Count all things dung and dross in comparison of the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ Let Him not go till He blesses you with that faith which justifies, and that sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord And, soon transported from this vale of tears into the mansions of the just made perfect, you shall cast your crown of immortal glory at the feet of Him that sitteth upon the throne, and before the Lamb who has redeemed us by His blood: to whom be the blessing, and the honour, and the glory, and the power for ever and ever!

Nougarede believed that the delay in bringing the affair before the assizes was caused by the attempts to learn if, during his residence in America, Florentin had not worked in some large meat-shop or sheepfold, where he would have learned to use a butcher knife, which was the chief point for the accusation.

Then he squatted in the lee of the sheepfold, eating a chunk of hard cheese, to wait for the first barton to arrive.

First the kennels,and then the stables, and then the forge, the toolshed, the workshop,the storerooms, the pigsty, the sheepfolds -- I'm sorry, that'swrong, it was the hen yard -- the hen yard, the sheepfolds, thebarn, and the wall of the orchard.

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.