A few flocks of long-wooled sheep roamed the hillsides. From Wordnik.com. [The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula] Reference
Genetic differentiation of transferrins in long-wooled, Merino and Wrzosowka sheep. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
These are the Southdown, and the Cotswold, Leicester, or other improved breeds of long-wooled sheep. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings] Reference
The Cotswold, New Oxford, and Leicester sheep, of the long-wooled variety, are also highly esteemed, in the same capacity as the. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings] Reference
Even the sheep, panting with their heavy wool when within the folds, and the shorn and shivering creatures running around outside and bleating for their old long-wooled companions, added to the excitement of the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
That of the lady, which had a kind of shroud made of the skins of long-wooled sheep wrapped about it as though to preserve the dress beneath, had been embalmed in some way, which the natives of the place, wherever it was, told him showed that she was royal. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin of the Sun] Reference
For the building of the abbey Gargantua gave twenty-seven hundred thousand eight hundred and thirty-one long-wooled sheep; and for the maintenance thereof he gave an annual fee-farm rent of twenty-three hundred and sixty-nine thousand five hundred and fourteen rose nobles. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction] Reference
I am satisfied that, except, perhaps, for the region north of Redding, where the winters are cold and the summers have rain and green grass, and where long-wooled sheep will do well, the merino is the sheep for this State; and "the finer the better," say the best sheep men. From Wordnik.com. [Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands] Reference
For the fabric and furniture of the abbey, Gargantua caused to be delivered out in ready money twenty-seven hundred thousand eight hundred and one-and-thirty of those long-wooled rams; and for every year until the whole work was completed he allotted threescore nine thousand gold crowns, and as many of the seven stars, to be charged all upon the receipt of the river Dive. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I] Reference
A lovely, long-wooled flock!. From Wordnik.com. [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2] Reference
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