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

She had helped her faithfully and tenderly to nurse Lynette through the long illness that had followed the finding of that lost lamb upon the veld.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

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 Freeman, John

"My baby, my son, my own lost lamb, for whom I have searched and prayed—God knows how faithfully, how sorrowfully—all these long, dreadful years!"

From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans