shorn

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  • 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.

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