lost lamb

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Kate Riley follows Ruth from childhood to middle age, writing with kindness, hilarity and aphoristic brilliance about this eccentric woman, a lost lamb who never actually leaves the safety of the flock.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Mrs. Underdown called me a poor lost lamb.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

He goes out to search for a lost lamb.

From I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross by Rosegger, Peter

But I had to do it to save my poor lost lamb, and if I didn't I should go mad myself—Thou knows I should.

From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir

Mistress Gifford had gone out early to look after the shepherd, who was seeking a lost lamb, and the black man had come out of a hollow.

From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma