Southdowns

It may have been as per prospectus of the manufacturers that I carried the essence of a flock of Southdowns in the waistcoat pocket, but the sheep after all did not seem to have a satisfactory effect, and a sucked lunch was not at all up to my sense of proportion.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

The Leicester and Southdowns afford the best mutton-chops.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various

{67} In the Southdowns, the hills are called “Downs,” and the valleys

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

From these she discovered that there was more in sheep breeding than was covered by the lore of the Three Marshes, and her mind began to plunge adventurously among Southdowns and Leicesters,

Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

"Redcliffe" was stocked with the finest of Southdowns, with sleek, blooded kine, and horses, and a full flock of Angora goats.

A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66, 1905

Southdowns will be changed up here, and the Shropshires will go down to the orchard.

Beautiful Joe Marshall Saunders 1904

He called them his little Southdowns, and he said he loved his sheep, for they were the most gentle and inoffensive creature that he had on his farm.

Beautiful Joe Marshall Saunders 1904

Innumerable sheep, the familiar Cheviots and Southdowns, graze upon the wild scurvy-grass and sorrel.

World's War Events, Vol. I 1902

He called them his little Southdowns, and he said he loved his sheep, for they were the most gentle and inoffensive creature that he had on his farm.

Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography 1893

I got up and put my head on his arm, and he went on: By and by, the Southdowns will be changed up here, and the Shropshires will go down to the orchard.

Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography 1893