Примери за shorn

• Includes all shorn fibre: fleece, belly, wiggings, crutchings, locks.

• When the late autumn came, their great and glorious army was like a tree shorn barren of its leaves.

• Shearlings are animals which have been shorn once.

• In war-time it is of course shorn of much of its outward glory.

• The term "tempering the wind to the shorn lamb" has also been used in this connection.

• They are being shorn of hospitals into which they have put a large amount of local rates.

• Shorn of our power, what help can we be to our friends if they need us?

• Production would be interrupted by the temporary disorganisation caused by requisitioning, and although shorn of its tangible assets, the company would still remain in being.

• In other words, can the court temper the wind to the shorn lamb?

• The lamb will be shorn, for certain, in one way or another.

• He said that we must temper the wind to the shorn lamb.

• Could we not temper the wind to these shorn lambs by extending the period over which abolition might be effected?

• Well, if the landlord, confronted with this final offer, gives way, he is shorn at once of his property.

• There is no demand for the old game of reviling a landed aristocracy, now shorn of its privileges and, alas, of most of its cash.

• Curiously, a sheep that is kept not to be eaten but to be shorn does attract rate relief.