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- noun Alternative spelling of
bellwether .
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Examples
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And as you see once again ‘the self-elite’ and ‘their media’ with coldly-calculated mentally-jazzing razzmatazz are parading before you only their choice of ever more venal and corrupted smirking and posturing apes to be your bell-wether ‘leaders’ to further mad excess to put our populations and our armies at the disposal of the international vermins 'interests of constant war and insatiable acquisition ...
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In fact, you act as a bell-wether for us as the more ridiculous your spin and the more prevarication you deploy the more we know that Labour is in terminal decline.
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And as you see once again ‘the elite’ and ‘the media’ with coldly-calculated mentally-jazzing razzmatazz are parading before you only their choice of ever more venal and corrupted smirking and posturing apes to be your bell-wether ‘leaders’ to further mad excess ...
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When the old bell-wether at the head rattles his bell, the mountains do indeed skip like rams and the little hills like lambs.
Walden 2004
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That is another simple sin in you, to bring the ewes and the rams together and to offer to get your living by the copulation of cattle; to be bawd to a bell-wether, and to betray a she-lamb of a twelvemonth to a crooked-pated, old, cuckoldly ram, out of all reasonable match.
As You Like It 2004
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They are like sheep following the bell-wether just as he leads them.
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In every flock they train one of the rams for bell-wether.
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The herdsmen tame the castrated bulls, and give them an office in the herd analogous to the office of the bell-wether in a flock; and these bulls live to an exceptionally advanced age, owing to their exemption from hardship and to their browsing on pasture of good quality.
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The goat lives for eight years and the sheep for ten, but in most cases not so long; the bell-wether, however, lives to fifteen years.
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With goats the shepherds appoint no bell-wether, as the animal is not capable of repose but frisky and apt to ramble.
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