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
Already the father was traversing the wilderness in search of his lost lamb, though the lamb knew it not.
From Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
“That?” she replied, “Oh, that’s a little lost lamb turned loose in a den of you human hyenas.”
From Little Lost Sister by Virginia Brooks
He could not recall it at first, but then he remembered the beautiful story which he had heard many times of the lost lamb that came to the church porch at the christening of Ewan.
From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine
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