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Examples
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My unique job on this show was to be a wolf in sheep's clothes.
Questlove: What Is Soul?: Hamhocks, Cornflakes & Divas Questlove 2011
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In the five years since the conifer plantations had been cut down, sunlight had brought forth bracken, birch seedlings, sheep's sorrel and welcome sprigs of heather.
Country diary: Bedfordshire Derek Niemann 2010
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They spoke about the traditional food of Iceland – meat hung and smoked, sheep's heads, blood, pickled ram's testicles – but how modernity had been imported by the country's largely American Nato bases.
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My unique job on this show was to be a wolf in sheep's clothes.
Questlove: What Is Soul?: Hamhocks, Cornflakes & Divas Questlove 2011
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The rear wall is also insulated with sheep's wool, and tyre bales salvaged from a nearby scrapyard.
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The New English Bible, for example, replaces "wolves in sheep's clothing" with something more appropriate to Monty Python: "men dressed up as sheep".
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Doing so may delight Palestinians refugees still living in refugee camps as well as Hamas, but certainly not to peace-leaning Israelis who are increasingly inclined to view Abbas as little more than an Arafat in sheep's clothing.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Palestinians' UN Remains of the Day Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011
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Or head to the dining room, spectacularly carved from a massive boulder, for ravioli stuffed with brocciu (sheep's milk ricotta) and herb-strewn veal chops grilled over an open fire.
Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels Forbes Life Staff 2010
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I read about Diggory Venn, Thomas Hardy's reddleman in The Return of the Native who digs up red clay to make dye for sheep's wool.
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Street stalls sold cheap but often fatty foods, such as the chicken skin discarded by poultry factories, or chicken feet, tripe and sheep's heads.
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