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

Thus, on that morning of doom, I took him with me to look for the shepherd and the lost lamb.

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

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

"My baby, my son, my own lost lamb, for whom I have searched and prayed—God knows how faithfully, how sorrowfully—all these long, dreadful years!"

From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans