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shepherdess

[shep-er-dis] / ˈʃɛp ər dɪs /


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In addition, Laura Pontikes donated nearly $250,000 in religious art and furnishings, including $20,000 for an 18th-century scroll depicting the Virgin Mary as the Good Shepherdess, according to a list of vendors provided to AP.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2019

As quickly as you can say “General-clothes-press-inspector-head-superintendent-Goat-legs”—a character in Andersen’s “The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep”—it was seven to nothing, Gold Diggers.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2015

Between Fox and Shepherdess, he and his readers have aged more than his characters.

From Time Magazine Archive

When it does, in some subsequent volume, perhaps the relevance of all that seems diffuse and maundering in Shepherdess will come clear.

From Time Magazine Archive

The time made by the Tecumseh was not beaten until 1833, when the Shepherdess carried away the laurels for speed.

From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman




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