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
The favorite went to meet him, trembling like a lost lamb coming face to face with a wolf.
From The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries by Mór Jókai
Then she imaged a shepherd's staff, and the shepherd-god waited tenderly for the voice of a lost lamb.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 by Various
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
