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

Nothing, but that the waggons of the emigrants had turned south for Diamond Town a fortnight before the finding of that lost lamb upon the veld.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

We can image to ourselves the lost lamb, the mournful bleating for its mother, its hunger and cold.

From St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 by Various

A favorite child was lost from a goodly family, and ill feelings were agitated, and all hearts ran after him through thicket and field, over hill and valley, like shepherds after a lost lamb.

From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Lee, Day Kellogg