Word Finder - shepherds

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A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.

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Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.

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The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.

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A swain; a rustic male lover.

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To watch over; to guide

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For a player to obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out of bounds.

The shepherds are rustics of the Colin Clout type, and discuss the follies and corruptions around them.

Next to Stanley the most important place on East Falkland is Darwin on Choiseul Sound - a village of Scottish shepherds and a station of the Falkland Island Company.

Misphragmuthosis worsted the "Shepherds" and shut them up in Avaris; and his son Thutmosis, failing to capture the stronghold, allowed them to depart; whereupon they went forth, 240,000 in number, established themselves in Judea and built Jerusalem.

He 's one of Laius ' most trustworthy shepherds.

It contains a fine "Annunciation" by Titian (1519), an important "Adoration of the Shepherds" by Paris Bordone (born at Treviso in 1500), and frescoes by Pordenone.

At higher altitudes long, cold, wet winters are experienced, with so short and cold a summer between them that the bleak paramos are left uninhabited except by a few shepherds in the short dry season.

Local shepherds appear on many weekends with their Border collies, to provide sheepdog demonstrations.

Make your way toward a gate, passing more shepherds crooks, ( see picture right) and out onto the road.

Australian Shepherds are keenly intelligent and require a lot of mental stimulation and physical activity to keep them sound in mind and body.

Some very active breeds like Border Collies and Australian Shepherds have even greater exercise needs, but a moderate program will serve the needs of most dogs without risking joint injury.

Top Ten Herding are the cattle, sheep or farm dogs such as Shetland Sheepdogs, Australian Cattle Dogs, German Shepherds and Corgis.

Large breeds, such as Labrador Retrievers and German Shepherds are often used as service dogs due to their ability to physically assist clients easily, but some handlers prefer smaller breeds.

Pit bulls, rottweilers, and German shepherds (responsible for nearly half of all fatal dog attacks in the United States in 2000) are potentially dangerous pets in households where children live or visit.

Certain breeds of dogs are much more likely to attack humans than others; those most often involved in fatal attacks are pit bulls, Rottweilers, German shepherds, huskies, and mastiffs.

Webkinz, which are made by the Ganz company, also come in many different styles, including dog breeds like German Shepherds and Golden Retrievers.

The crèche features not only the family of Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus, but also the Three Wise Men, shepherds, and other French figures, such as local dignitaries or characters.

December 6th is La Festa di San Nicola, a festival which honors St. Nicholas, the patron saint of the shepherds.

You might also have an innkeeper, but he could be dressed in the same manner as the shepherds.

Shepherds usually wear brown, black or grey, and Joseph will be dressed in a similar way.

Shepherds usually carry staffs, while Joseph doesn't really have any accessories.

They may wear the same basic outfit as the shepherds, but have a sash of brightly colored fabric to distinguish them.

Add a head scarf here and a sash there, give the shepherds their staffs and you'll be ready to go.

Baby Jesus, shepherds, Joseph and Mary are the easiest costumes to make.

Kids can make make their own shepherds crook for a family nativity play with empty wrapping paper tubes.

Simply bend one end of the tube into a cane shape and you have an inexpensive shepherds' crook.

In the novel series, Sam kept a book open to shepherds on his coffee table and his favorite form was that of a sable and white border collie.

It is Arwen who shepherds Frodo across the dangerous fields to Rivendell when he is felled by the Witch King and later, she refuses the journey to the West because she will not abandon the human she loves.

Gandalf shepherds the Fellowship along the way, falling in battle to a Balrog only to be resurrected as Gandalf the White.

Thus at Ozieri the men wear ordinary jackets and trousers with a velvet waistcoat; the shepherds of the Sulcis wear short black trousers without kilt and heavy black sheepskin coats, and the two rows of waistcoat buttons are generally silver or copper coins.

Of these 41,661 cultivate their own land, 15,408 are fixed tenants, 24,031 are regular labourers, and no less than 72,753 day labourers; while there are 35,056 shepherds.

Religious officials and shepherds in charge of flocks were exempt.

When cut open, it displays an infinity of tiny leaf-buds and stems, and at intervals there exudes from it an aromatic resin, which from its astringent properties is used by the shepherds as a vulnerary, but has not been converted to any commercial purpose.

The large majority of the inhabitants live in the East Island, and the predominating element is Scottish - Scottish shepherds having superseded the South American Gauchos.

The tithe had been replaced by an export tax on exported agricultural produce levied at the custom-houses, and the smaller peasant proprietors and shepherds of the mountainous districts were practically exempt from any contribution to the state.

The population in the lower and warmer valleys live in houses, and follow agriculture; in the higher regions they are nomadic shepherds, thinly scattered over a large area.

The Mongolians of the northern half of Asia are almost entirely nomadic, hunters and shepherds or herdsmen.

The tracts over which they roamed were in ordinary circumstances common to all shepherds alike.

The number of " agricultural labourers and shepherds," which affords a more precise index, declined in a still more marked degree.

The one answer was the Shepherds' Crusade, or Crusade of the Pastoureaux - "a religious Jacquerie," as it has been called by Dean Milman.

Only twenty-seven islands of the group are inhabited, but in the case of some of them the population consists solely of a few lighthouse attendants, shepherds and keepers.

Mithras was born of a rock, the marvel being seen only by certain shepherds, who brought gifts and adored him.

The same idea that the perfect ones are christs as having received the Paraclete is met with in early Christian documents, and still survives among the Syriac-speaking shepherds on the hills north of Mardin.

He does not seek in that poem to draw Italian peasants from the life, but to bring back the shepherds of Theocritus on Italian scenes.

His shepherds are not the shepherds of Theocritus, nor are they in any sense true to life.

The shepherds (rulers) of the nation make their flock an article of trade and treat the sheep as sheep for the shambles.

He destroys " the three shepherds " in one month, but is soon weary of his flock and the flock of him.

Sheep ranges under the care of Scottish shepherds have also been established in the department of Junin, the stock being imported from southern Patagonia, England and Australia.

It is denominated by Humboldt 5 the " zodiac of hunters and shepherds," and he adds that the presence in it of a tiger gives it an exclusively Asiatic character.

Both are brought up among shepherds, carry on war against Fidenae and Veii, double the number of citizens, organize the army, and disappear from earth in a storm.

The forests are extensive and fine, and are now superintended by government officials, called 8avod, XaKEs, in spite or with the connivance of whom the timber is being rapidly destroyed - partly from the merciless way in which it is cut by the proprietors, partly from its being burnt by the shepherds, for the sake of the rich grass that springs up after such conflagrations, and partly owing to the goats, whose bite kills all the young growths.