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

The favorite went to meet him, trembling like a lost lamb coming face to face with a wolf.

From The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries by Jókai, Mór

The great grey eyes swam in sudden tears that were not to be repressed, as the Mother-Superior remembered the finding of that lost lamb on the veld seven years before.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

Then she imaged a shepherd's staff, and the shepherd-god waited tenderly for the voice of a lost lamb.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 by Various