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The unpastoral reader may be informed that speed and completeness of denudation are the grand desiderata in shearing; the employer thinks principally of the latter, the shearer principally of the former.

From Shearing in the Riverina by Boldrewood, Rolf

They seemed to be unpastoral things, for Ingeborg saw Johann's ears lifted up by what was evidently, in the front of his face, being a grin.

From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von