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
Thou hast been good to me and to mine, and especially to the poor lost lamb who lies in the Castle to-night in her shame and disgrace.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir
"I hope you won't play the lost lamb to her snowdrift!" he sneered, in a way that I resented.
From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth
Left alone the young queen strayed through the magnificent palace like a lost lamb.
From Czechoslovak Fairy Tales by Fillmore, Parker
