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Shepherd Corin the faithful shepherdess; called “the Virgin of the Grove.” [Br. Lit.: “The Faithful Shepherdess” in Brewer Handbook, 234] guards sheep; creator of bucolic poetry. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 75] father of herdsmen. [O.T.: Genesis 4:20] the Good Shepherd. [NJ.: John 10:11 –14] young shepherdess; searches everywhere for lost flock. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 93] asleep while his sheep are in the field. [Nurs. Rhyme: Baring-Gould, 46] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Not much has changed from Old West range wars between ranchers and sheepherders. Why this blase attitude with regard to Bilderberg when a junket to Hoboken from the widget manufacturers association, or acceptance of complimentary tickets to the tobacco-chewing tournament from the sheepherders lobby, are routinely considered sufficient cause for charges of corruption and influence peddling? In the first scene, the youths, both dressed like versions of the Marlboro Man, are actually applying for jobs as sheepherders, a livelihood that the real cowboys of the 1870s despised and waged war against. |
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