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Quand reverai-je en un jour, Tous les objets de mon amour, Mon père, Ma mère, Mon frère, Ma soeur, Mes agneaux, Mes troupeaux, Ma bergère?

From Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. by Vasey, George

A woman who had some Highlanders quartered in her house told me in speaking of them: "Monsieur, ce sont de si bonnes gens; ils sont doux comme des agneaux."

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E

Las! tes autres agneaux n'ont faute de pasture, Ils ne craignent le loup, le vent, ny la froidure; Si ne suis-je pourtant le pire du troppeau.

From Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance by Belloc, Hilaire