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Periwinkle was ever a strayer, and Periwinkle's dam was bleating at the edge of the steep cliff up which the stranger toiled.

From A Book of Quaker Saints by Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)

Seven sheep were on the outside of the gate—six of the shepherd's flock, the other a strayer.

From Dog Stories from the "Spectator" being anecdotes of the intelligence, reasoning power, affection and sympathy of dogs, selected from the correspondence columns of "The Spectator" by Various

The man wanted his own sheep in; so, before opening the gate, he quietly said: "'Rob,' catch the strayer."

From Dog Stories from the "Spectator" being anecdotes of the intelligence, reasoning power, affection and sympathy of dogs, selected from the correspondence columns of "The Spectator" by Various

Although "Gled" brought his six wild sheep right over "Rob" and his strayer, the sheep was held securely till the gate was closed, and the order given to "let it gang."

From Dog Stories from the "Spectator" being anecdotes of the intelligence, reasoning power, affection and sympathy of dogs, selected from the correspondence columns of "The Spectator" by Various

Is a strayer from the drove: one that Nature made a sociable, because she made him man, and a crazed disposition hath altered.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various