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
Like a lost lamb she roams on high Through the cold and soundless sky, And stares down into her deep Reflection in the pool of sleep.
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
"I might have known it; poor, lost lamb, I might have known it."
From Norston's Rest by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Grace continued, looking at Geordie; "he actually left all the other sheep —the ninety-nine, you know—in the wilderness, and went away to seek for this poor little silly lost lamb."
From Geordie's Tryst A Tale of Scottish Life by Mrs. Milne Rae
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