Picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But first the American sheeple will have to wake up, object to being "shorn", and pick up their pots and pans!. From Wordnik.com. [Dissident Voice] Reference
Shepherds in vales smooth-shorn of nibbling flocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgics] Reference
It is not he who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
Cate Blanchett debuted her shorn 'do at the Tony Awards. From Wordnik.com. [When Is a Dramatic Haircut Not a Dramatic Haircut?] Reference
The fact of their being lost was shorn of half its terrors. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
So the promise was minimized, and shorn of its glorious meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
The poor sheep had never been shorn before and she wasn't very happy. From Wordnik.com. [A Visit To Sheep Country] Reference
Samson shorn of his locks, we would become as weak as any other people. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
(There's a reason no one tuned in to "Felicity" after those locks were shorn.). From Wordnik.com. [Fall Preview] Reference
And he came to the king, and said to him: Behold thy servant's sheep are shorn. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 10: 2 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
But if it be a shame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 53: 1 Corinthians The Challoner Revision] Reference
That Japanese soldier, still in a firing position, has half of his skull shorn off. From Wordnik.com. [Hanks, Spielberg Strike Out For 'The Pacific'] Reference
I noticed then, for the first time, that the sleeves of the coat had been shorn away. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
Even the mathematical strength of Euclid would avail nothing, if shorn of his diagrams. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
If the Patriots flop, you can expect screams for Mr. Brady to be shorn like Johnny Unitas. From Wordnik.com. [The NFL: What You Need to Know] Reference
Sophocles speaks of having the head shorn, and of wearing a skull-cap, like the Scythians. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
We have tried to keep step with city maidens, shorn of ridiculous hoops and trailing trains. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Roofs were shorn, houses ripped off their foundations, destroyed cars randomly scattered about. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Roof Blues] Reference
They are now shorn of their splendour; but they still possess novelty enough to attract a stranger. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
The fog was rising slowly, and the sun, shorn of its beams, showed its pale face faintly through it. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Pete, much disheveled and shorn of some of his gayest feathers, stood blinking dazedly for a minute. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Often it came to table so shorn of its pristine freshness that not the hungriest of us could condone its odor. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
Many of them fell -- fell, I say -- like lightning from heaven, shorn of their radiance through dire rebellion. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
By his coming, a sleepless night was shorn of its dread and vastness, and confidence and serenity took their place. From Wordnik.com. [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference
I could see by the fierce light that several of the stalks 'tops were shorn off, jagged against the blue-dark sky. From Wordnik.com. [Fifth of July] Reference
Still, I am confident things will never come to that, for an America shorn of principle would simply cease being America. From Wordnik.com. [Let Freedom Ring] Reference
Thy teeth as flocks of sheep, that are shorn, which come up from the washing, all with twins, and there is none barren among them. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 24: Canticle of Canticles The Challoner Revision] Reference
He arrived at his sentencing hearing totally shorn of body hair in order to avoid, the judge found, a drug test based on hair samples. From Wordnik.com. [Solving A Monet Mystery] Reference
As brilliantly shot as it is brutally single-minded, this is a war movie shorn of all its usual accouterments: the battle is the plot. From Wordnik.com. [Have Yourself A Movie Little Xmas] Reference
The whole performance, eloquent though it was, seemed to me largely shorn of its effectiveness of appeal, because of its indefiniteness. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
What it might sound like: A sludge-y, dance-y Britney record that's been messed up, shorn of its hair extensions and ground into the dirt. From Wordnik.com. [Riffs: Our top five Britney Spears dream collaborators] Reference
Teutonic way to adopt his whimsicality, shorn now of sentimentalism, and to build success for their wares on remembrance of a defaced idol. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
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