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  • noun Plural form of shepherde.

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Examples

  • He lodged upon a sweetebed of chamomill under the sinamone-tree: about him many shepherdes and shepe, with pleasaunte pipes; greatly abhorring the life of Courtiers, Citizens, Usurers, and Banckruptes, etc., whose daies are miserable.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • He lodged upon a swete bed of chamomill, under the sinamum tree; about hym many shepherdes and shepe, with pleasaunte pipes; greatly abhorring the life of Courtiers, Citizens,

    The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489

  • And the shepherdes returned, praysinge and laudinge God, for all that they had herde and sene, euen as it was tolde them.

    Making Light 2009

  • And there were in ye same region shepherdes in the felde by the foldes, and watchinge their flocke by night.

    Making Light 2009

  • And it fortuned wha the angels were gone from the in to heaue, the shepherdes sayde one to another: let vs go now euen vnto Bethleem, and se this thinge that is happened, which ye Lorde hath shewed vnto vs. And they came wt haist, & founde both Mary and Ioseph, & the babe layed in ye maunger.

    Making Light 2009

  • :: And the shepherdes retourned praysinge and laudinge God for all that they had herde and sene evyn as it was told vnto them.

    Making Light 2009

  • :: And it fortuned assone as the angels were gone awaye fro them in to heven the shepherdes sayd one to another: let vs goo eve vnto Bethleem and se this thynge that is hapened which the Lorde hath shewed vnto vs.:: And they cam with haste and founde Mary and Ioseph and the babe layde in a mager.

    Making Light 2009

  • And the estate of shepherdes and countrie people he accompted moste happie and sure. "

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • And the estate of shepherdes and countrie people he accoumpted moste happie and sure. "

    The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489

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