unshepherded
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a word derived from
shepherd.
shepherdnouna person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
Example Sentences
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As armies, by no captain led, As flocks that feed unshepherded, Such is the fortune of a state Without a king and desolate.”
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
"And you were forced to intimate you found yourself quite equal to conducting the expedition unshepherded?"
From Deadham Hard by Lucas Malet
Because of this the seekers for reality have been left unshepherded and have wandered off into strange wildernesses.
From Towards the Great Peace by Ralph Adams Cram
At Piacenza priests had been driven out, and the city left unshepherded for three years.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Sitting up in bed in the dim July dawn, wild-eyed in an unshepherded flock of golden locks, this young lady was certainly surpassingly beautiful.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan