shepherdess

IPA: ʃˈɛpɝdʌs

Examples of "shepherdess" in Sentences

As easy as a shepherdess, which is what bergere means in French.
In it the shepherdess is standing by her flock engrossed in her knitting.
I have seen one of this man's works that showed a shepherdess in the mountains of Norway.
He says he found me with goats and sheep — that I was some kind of shepherdess in the jungle! "
"shepherdess," fed the poultry with Edwin, pulled off her jewelled ornaments, and gave them to Walter for playthings; nay, she even washed off her rouge at the spring, and came in with faint natural roses upon her faded cheeks.
I call our shepherdess Honorine even though perhaps not infallibly naming the sociable soubrette who might, with all her gay bold confidence, have been an official inspectress in person, and to whose easy care or, more particularly, expert sensibility and candour of sympathy and curiosity, our flock was freely confided.
Melrose and Von Behrens honours crowded each other -- here was the thin old silver "shepherdess" cup awarded that Johanna von Behrens who had won a prize with her sheep, while Washington was yet a boy; and here the quaint tortoise-shell snuff-box that a great prince, homeless and unknown, had given the American family that took him in; and the silver buttons from Lafayette's waistcoat that the great Frenchman had presented Colonel Horace Murison of the "Continentals."