What is "shepherdess"

Usage examples of "shepherdess".

It is not for an artless and uninstructed shepherdess to defeat my wiles and baffle all my incitements.

Down into the bosom of a stony shepherdess there steals a fleck of light and warmth that would have done it good a hundred years ago.

But Jeanne, the Virgin of Ep Nell, the Velleda of the Jomatres stones, the mystical sister of the Great Shepherdess, was very poorly supported.

Merritt made a slow and casual descent, and when he had come nearer the herders and the sheep, he recognized one of the two shepherdesses in coveralls for Meg Burns.

The mind of the shepherdess was too deeply read in the lessons of virtue, to acknowledge any beauty in that form, which was not animated with truth, and in those features, which were not illuminated with integrity and innocence.

This would have sufficed if a very pretty shepherdess without a mask had not begged me to dance it with her.

Elaine stood in the ball-room surrounded by a laughing jostling throng of pierrots, jockeys, Dresden-china shepherdesses, Roumanian peasant-girls and all the lively make-believe creatures that form the ingredients of a fancy-dress ball.

By such virtuous and ingenuous reflections the shepherdess endeavoured to solace her distress, and to fortify her courage.

Such was the spot where the shepherds and shepherdesses of a hundred cots were now assembled.

As soon as I was awake, I thought of the shepherdess who had danced the 'forlana' so well at the ball, and I resolved to pay her a visit.

She buys a couple of begilt Bristol boards at the Fancy Stationer’s, and paints her very best upon them—a shepherd with a red waistcoat on one, and a pink face smiling in the midst of a pencil landscape—a shepherdess on the other, crossing a little bridge, with a little dog, nicely shaded.

Tiffany was sick on candyfloss, had her fortune told by a little old lady who said that many, many men would want to marry her, and won the shepherdess, which was made of china painted in white and blue.

The Coopers had fitted them out with garden figures of shepherds and shepherdesses carved in stone, not at all bad of their kind, and for their period.

Damon and Thyrsis, Phyllis and Chloe had been fairly naturalised in Spain, together with all the devices of pastoral poetry for investing with an air of novelty the idea of a dispairing shepherd and inflexible shepherdess.

No one has mentioned itto me, at least, though for all I know it has been the central topic of conversation at Delacourt ever since I left my father's roofbut I am well aware that everyone is on tenterhooks, dreading the day when I announce my betrothal to a brewer's daughter, or a shepherdess, or some such thing.