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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 Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

How ethereal and lofty is this station, unto which even Gabriel, unshepherded, can never attain, and the Bird of Heaven, unassisted, can never reach!

From The Kitáb-i-Íqán by Bahá'u'lláh

As Th�mistocle had predicted, they came unshepherded by the good Mr Cook.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

They seemed to Him, not merely a mob of intrusive sight-seers, but like a huddled mass of unshepherded sheep.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander

It is hovering, unshepherded and visionless, on the brink of disaster.

From The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh by Shoghi Effendi