lost sheep

True, the neighbors might have sued the owner of the dog, and have got the value of their lost sheep in that way.

Tertullian, in the second century, speaks of chalices on which were paintings of the Good Shepherd and the lost sheep.

Approaching the Grand Lake district he encountered two men who said they were looking for lost sheep.

The Reverend Maurice Evandale thought that his duty lay amongst the lost sheep as well as amongst those already in the fold.

It was the old story of the one lost sheep becoming all in all to the shepherd.