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
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
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
The mother had dined in the ladies' cabin, and retired to her berth to lie down, and this lost lamb was searching for her.
From Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, Mrs. George Croft
