pinfold
Example Sentences
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Hatted Herault leads his distressed flock, through their pinfold of a Tuileries again; across the Garden, to the Gate on the opposite side.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
I seed that one cow o' thine i' the pinfold ageän as I wur a-coomin' 'ere.
From Becket and other plays by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
With shrilling bleat for comfort hie To every pinfold, humankind; Ah, there the fostering teat is dry, The stranger mother proves unkind.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
Then the bush was driven down into the opening; and all that it was necessary to do, was to dip into the pinfold and take out great handfuls of fish.
From Stories of New Jersey by Stockton, Frank Richard
If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee care for me.
From King Lear by Shakespeare, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.