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

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

He could not recall it at first, but then he remembered the beautiful story which he had heard many times of the lost lamb that came to the church porch at the christening of Ewan.

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir

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