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 Widow found her "lost lamb" hiding behind a rain-barrel when she opened up the house next morning, and there was a mighty touching and affecting scene.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
Left alone the young queen strayed through the magnificent palace like a lost lamb.
From Czechoslovak Fairy Tales by Parker Fillmore
"I hope you won't play the lost lamb to her snowdrift!" he sneered, in a way that I resented.
From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Ellsworth Douglass
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