Example Sentences

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The sheep and lambs are bleating in the fields away behind me, and there is a clatter of a donkey’s hoofs up the paved road below.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Sheep are bleating, and excited farmers are yelling like pandemonium or an Irish House of Commons.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

New-born lambs are bleating, And the cawing rooks are meeting In the elms—a noisy crowd.

From Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study by Anonymous

The young lambs are bleating in the meadows; The young birds are chirping in their nest; The young fawns are playing with the shadows; The young flowers are blowing toward the west.

From Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng

My sheep-bells tinkle frae the west, My lambs are bleating near; But still the sound that I lo'e best, Alack!

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles