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- adjective Not
shepherded ; without a guiding influence.
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Examples
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He had no fears for Katharine, but there was a suspicion at the back of his mind that Cassandra might have been, innocently and ignorantly, led into some foolish situation in one of their unshepherded dissipations.
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On our way back through the streets, unshepherded this time, Kyral's tongue was loosened as if with a great release from tension.
The Door Through Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964
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It is hovering, unshepherded and visionless, on the brink of disaster.
The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927
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He had no fears for Katharine, but there was a suspicion at the back of his mind that Cassandra might have been, innocently and ignorantly, led into some foolish situation in one of their unshepherded dissipations.
Night and Day 1920
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In the clean, smooth paths of the middle sky and highest up in air, drift, unshepherded, small flocks ranging contrarily.
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In the clean, smooth paths of the middle sky and highest up in air, drift, unshepherded, small flocks ranging contrarily.
The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901
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They appeal greatly to Jesus, like unshepherded sheep.
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He had little of the pastoral spirit; I do not think that he yearned over unshepherded souls, or primarily desired to seek and save the lost.
Hugh Memoirs of a Brother Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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They seemed to Him, not merely a mob of intrusive sight-seers, but like a huddled mass of unshepherded sheep.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868
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The broken lights in the work of a good painter wander like flocks upon the hills, not unshepherded; speaking of life and peace: the broken lights of a bad painter fall like hailstones, and are capable only of mischief, leaving it to be wished they were also of dissolution.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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