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Within a few hours all Europe knew the details of the latest half-cocked attempt of an Austrian Nazi band to seize power, and disgusted German Nazis were again calling their southern brethren stupid sheepsheads.

From Time Magazine Archive

But they were mostly memories of sheepsheads and flanneled bathers and 'tis not for these that the poet gazes into the emerald depths whence the pearly scum, like tears of mermaids—Ah!

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 by Various

In August, 1768, he "hauled the Sein for sheepsheads" off Hollis Marsh in Westmoreland County.

From The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People by Haynie, Miriam