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  • A prisoner, a sheep-herder, a tax-collector, a handful of fishermen, a doctor, and a few ambitious corporate climbers—all chosen, all taught, all sent to do one thing: speak the Living Word of God in spirit and in truth so that the heirs of the Father might know that their inheritance is at hand.

    Archive 2009-07-12 2009

  • Amos, a sheep-herder and dresser of sycamores, is sent by God to prophesy to Israel.

    Archive 2009-07-12 2009

  • Amos, a sheep-herder and dresser of sycamores, is sent by God to prophesy to Israel.

    Where's our will; where's our way? 2009

  • They're from those superstitious, sheep-herder authors 1500 years ago.

    Texas Faith: When is it okay to use God to advance public policy? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • A prisoner, a sheep-herder, a tax-collector, a handful of fishermen, a doctor, and a few ambitious corporate climbers—all chosen, all taught, all sent to do one thing: speak the Living Word of God in spirit and in truth so that the heirs of the Father might know that their inheritance is at hand.

    Where's our will; where's our way? 2009

  • A good team of sheep-herder and his her? dog can do some pretty amazing stuff – I was blown away when I saw this video.

    Sharing the shearing « knitnut.net 2008

  • It is not unusual to find a sheep-herder eager to argue Hellene philosophy or a wool-dyer intent on building a better waterwheel, and they are keen to discuss politics as well.

    Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

  • KING: OK, the Henny Youngman scenario: Somewhere in Switzerland, there is a sheep-herder.

    CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: How Can Investors Survive the Bear Market? - January 2, 2001 2001

  • Old Dupré had taught her that; but she lacked a trifle -- a nuance -- but everything where love is concerned, l'art d'être désiré, explained the little Frenchman; for, though he was only a sheep-herder of Lost Borders, if he had been a boulevardier he could not have been more of a Frenchman or less of a cad.

    Bitterness of Women 1996

  • When necessary to talk he pretended to be a sheep-herder looking for strays.

    The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid Garrett, Pat F 1954

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