Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wages; hire.
- noun An old spelling of
sheep , sheep.
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Examples
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October 23, 2009 at 7:50 am adn awlsoe frum teh shepe baabaa seetz
Catberries - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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He shook be ashaped of hempshelves, hiding that shepe in his goat.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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And Abraham sayde: my sonne God wyll provyde him a shepe for sacrifyce.
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And he sayde: Se here is fyre and wodd but where is the shepe for sacrifyce?
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Their shepe be of very small body, and of a harde and roughe coate.
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He seems to have played his part to some purpose, under the colour of madness, converting a “great fatt shepe” to Mohammedanism, killing an ass because he refused to be a proselyte, and, finally, he “handeled a Jewe so euyll that he had almost killed hym.”
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Yes, those shepe is the cause of all theise meschieves, for they have driven husbandrie out of the countries, by the which was encreased before all kynde of victuall, and now altogether shepe, shepe.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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Yes, those shepe is the cause of all theise meschieves, for they have driven husbandrie out of the countries, by the which was encreased before all kynde of victuall, and now altogether shepe, shepe.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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How hard they sleep! he says, and he carries away a "fatt shepe," and takes it to his wife.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Behold I send you forthe as shepe amõge wolues. &c.
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