Adams Farm yarn is spun from the fleeces of the farm's own merinos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

The farthest stall to the right was occupied by a pair of merinos, already bedding down for the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference

I'm sure the merinos aren't always this snooty--there was a lot of paparazzi and they were probably not used to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [October 2006] Reference

These caps are all made from Super 80s or better, which means they will have similar performance qualities to our premium merinos.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Just In: BSNYC Slaycation Announcement! (and Friday Fun Qiuz)] Reference

Great must have been the tinkling at eventide, exceeding that of the most extensive flock of merinos that ever cropped Castilian herbage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference

In Australia, the most commonly raised sheep are merinos, who are specifically bred to have wrinkled skin, which means more wool per animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [STELLA MCCARTNEY VEGAN FASHION | Inhabitat] Reference

She conceived a horror for her merinos, and shame for her plush hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

Poor things! weren't they all in their thick merinos and beaver bonnets?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures] Reference

Rambouillets -- they're high-strung, nervous, different from the merinos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference

She shook her head over the simple, untrimmed merinos and thick cloth coats.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Katy Did at School] Reference

And there are no better layers for keeping you snug and cosy than Howie's merinos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

A present of a ram from the King's fine flock of merinos was a sign of high favour.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference

Although merinos are not native to New Zealand - the colonizing Aussies brought their.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

Mutton sheep will generally pay better to raise than merinos, but they need more care.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Woman's Home] Reference

We are all delighted with your useful presents, especially the warm shawls and merinos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America] Reference

Dorsets, merinos, &c., he believes to be descended from an unknown and extinct species.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

The Rambouillets she purchased had kept fat where the merinos had lost weight on the same feed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference

And he looked on in a kind of amused way, while the clerk of the merinos and I confronted each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daisy] Reference

New Zealand has 40 million sheep "We ate the other 20 million," he says, 2 million of which are merinos.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

"We had a great deal of trouble with the merinos," Mr. Sullivan went on, directing his remark to Mr. Lee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minnie's Pet Lamb] Reference

Spotting big merinos, I stuttered, was surely the responsibility of Mrs Authorblog and the Authorbloglets.    From Wordnik.com.  [authorblog] Reference

Other breeds -- hybrids of Southdowns, merinos, and other stock -- were also in good condition, and fair in size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook to the new Gold-fields] Reference

The introduction of the Spanish merinos into France has already produced in her wools a considerable amelioration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paris as It Was and as It Is] Reference

First, the evening dresses of white mull and pale merinos; then the meal at her table, and the seat in her carriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of Fife] Reference

These were of dark-green silk, to match the merinos, and ribbon of the same color was quilled around the capes, crowns, and brims.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood] Reference

He had about eight hundred graded merinos and a daughter that was solid silk and as handsome as a new stake-rope on a thirty-dollar pony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the West [Annotated]] Reference

The mountain-dwelling merinos provide the raw material for a surprisingly hot product in the world of sports apparel: woolen performance wear.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

New Zealand's merinos produce a wool that has a very fine diameter, which makes it soft and breathable yet with high insulation value for warmth.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

Houghton with their demand for common zephyrs, for red flannel which they would scallop with black worsted, for black alpacas and bombazines and merinos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Girl] Reference

For fine goods there are numerous establishments at work in the large cities, and many more daily growing up; and of merinos we have some thousands, and these multiplying fast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters] Reference

New Zealand Shears Circuit final (15 sheep - five merinos, five ewes, five lambs): Jerome McCrea (Whanganui) 17min 43. 57sec, 69. 044pts, 1; James Fagan (Te Kuiti) 17min 5. 51sec.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

"Jenny's own flock of merinos, that she keeps for the special wool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

Bob was worried, and began to talk of foot rot among the sheep if it kept up; merinos couldn’t take much moisture in the ground without developing diseased hoofs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thorn Birds]

Ah! you would not keep on three seconds the wool of fifteen merinos which covers you; you would fling away your childish switch, and go to live in the heaven of heavens!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3] Reference

Admetus's merinos!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference

7,200 mètres of merinos, 7,000 mètres of muslins, 14,000 mètres of.    From Wordnik.com.  [France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889] Reference