Shearer
[sheer-er]
- MoiraMoira Shearer King, 1926–2006, British ballerina.
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Examples from the Web for shearer
Contemporary Examples
With Charlie Hebdo, “you really have a clean case here,” Shearer said.
“They are hypocritical on this very issue,” Shearer said about Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and other public officials.
Shearer took home his first Primetime Emmy Award for his voice work on The Simpsons this past August.
Harry Shearer on Being Nixon, ‘The Simpsons Movie’ Sequel, and Why Obama Should Return His NobelMarlow Stern
October 21, 2014
Shearer did, and received 200 pieces of angry mail the following Monday.
“As with Washington insiders, access proves persuasive,” Shearer says.
Historical Examples
That because I was dumb, I lay like a lamb before the stroke of the shearer?
Ernest LinwoodCaroline Lee Hentz
Just enough and nae mair, like Janet Howie's shearer's meat.
The Proverbs of ScotlandAlexander Hislop
Whenever a shearer cuts the skin of a sheep he calls out ‘Tar!’
The Land of the KangarooThomas Wallace Knox
I know, and I don't give a shearer's curse for it, so don't you fancy I care.
Colonial BornG. Firth Scott
There is no use in struggling, for our great Shearer, if he means to shear, will do it.
Talks To FarmersCharles Haddon Spurgeon