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Usage examples of ewes.

Garric approached with the last of the herd, a dozen ewes from Beilin.

The tail of it, where Garric gently chivied the complaining ewes, was still visible on the slope.

He and Leda had watched helplessly as their prized ewes went into convulsions and jerked themselves to death.

Leda put food and water samples and three sick ewes into his pickup and raced into town to the vet.

She knew all about the bags of red chalk the rams had strapped to their chests, and why you knew later on that the ewes with the red smudges on their backs were going to be mothers in the spring.

The young ewes were adults with offspring of their own, tottering beside their mothers on wobbly legs and butting for the udder.

He gamboled happily with the lambs, clucked and fussed over the ewes, and even the ancient, bad-tempered ram turned gentle in his presence.

It was spring, and the scent of grass and the sound of ewes lambing on the Welsh hillside carried through the open windows of her cottage.