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 speaks—the mountains kneel, the valleys rise; Rolls to the north the land-dividing wave; Equality—nay, justice, holds the helm, Each hath his own, the lost lamb finds the fold.

From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Whitney, Orson F.

Of course it had to be a lost lamb or a calf in Texas; the wonder was there hadn't been more of them.

From Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party by Goss, John

We can image to ourselves the lost lamb, the mournful bleating for its mother, its hunger and cold.

From St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 by Various