Here is Unmitigated Local England, local people enjoying local pleasures - sheep tweeked and preened for the sheepwalk (one judging category reads: Three Threaves Mule or Masham), foxhounds snuffling for the biscuits in a huntsman's coat. From Wordnik.com. [Show Sunday] Reference
Dried salmon and other fish also adorned others, pleasingly hinting of the general honesty and mutual confidence of the humble natives, poor as they were, for strangers were never thought of; the road, such as it was, merely mounting up to "the hill" (the lofty desert of sheepwalk) on one hand, and descending steeply to the river Tivy on the other. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
The seven voters of Old Sarum were allowed to return two members of Parliament, because this place, -- once a Roman fort, and afterwards a sheepwalk, -- many generations before, at the early casting of the House of Commons, had been entitled to this representation; but the argument for State Rights assumes that all these rights may be lodged in voters as few in number as ever controlled a rotten borough of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
'E'es that' ill be it -- he'll git into the sheepwalk behind the mound. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh] Reference
New Lanark would still have been a sheepwalk, and Greenock a fishing hamlet. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
As things are professionalized, people learn to do the right things, follow best practices, to be "above reproach (to sheepwalk).". From Wordnik.com. [Traffick] Reference
Description: my old run. very steep up sheepwalk lane, need to save yourself for this. after that achievement, nice recovery on the move to the finish. From Wordnik.com. [WalkJogRun New Running Routes]
But towards the evening Tyrconnel and Lauzun collected all their forces, and marched out of the city by the road leading to that vast sheepwalk which extends over the table land of Kildare. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
A sheepwalk to another farm; so many carriages crossed it that they would sometimes be a mile abreast of each other in pursuit of the best track. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of English Agriculture] Reference
Dial internet access with one of the cruciate guys, i reticulate that as an spinnable i telecom virtuoso that mandible had to sheepwalk all the way from pituophis to be bitters in our own blemished timaliidae. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
A flock, and bringing it home to Wormiston, but is said to have been able to proceed solitarily, and by night, to a sheepwalk, and there detach certain individuals previously pointed out by its master, which it would drive home by secret ways, without allowing one to straggle. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of Dogs] Reference
A sheepwalk brought me here. ". From Wordnik.com. [Barbarians] Reference
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