Sentence examples for bad shepherds from inspiring English sources

(He doesn't think that there's any such thing as barnyard pests, only "bad shepherds").

He wanted to try different things – he formed a folk band, the Bad Shepherds, in 2008.

In The Young Ones, Edmondson drew on his punk past to play Vyvyan Basterd with uncanny realism, and the Bad Shepherds take his favourite songs from that era and rework them in an English folk tradition.

In Spenser's Shepheardes Calender, July is treated as an excuse for another thinly veiled rant against Catholic priests, who are once again portrayed as bad shepherds, but it does contain some deft evoking of the month's "cruell scortching heate" and the toils of the herdsmen who have to toil up inconvenient hills in search of summer pasturage.

For some, Sunday's events centred on the wonderful acrobatics of the insect circus and trips to the knitting tent to feed their children'snew-found addiction to finger knitting, but before that Adrian Edmondson and the Bad Shepherds upped the folk quota with delicate and witty arrangements of 80s songs such as I Fought the Law and Kraftwerk's The Model, on mandolin, fiddle and uilleann pipes.

But what will she recommend to someone who was the hell-raising Vyvian in The Young Ones, performed punk music on folk instruments in The Bad Shepherds, has been in Star Wars and supports Exeter City?

He would soon put an end to the swaggering threats with which such men as you go about insulting people-gadding all over the town while your flocks are going to ruin through bad shepherding". Then Melanthius the goatherd answered, "You ill-conditioned cur, what are you talking about?

His harsh treatment of all (whether Puritan or Roman Catholic) who differed with him on ecclesiastical questions caused him to be attacked in the anti-episcopal Marprelate Tracts (1588 89) and to be characterized as "Morrell," the bad shepherd, in Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender (1579).

As when the south wind spreads a curtain of mist upon the mountain tops, bad for shepherds but better than night for thieves, and a man can see no further than he can throw a stone, even so rose the dust from under their feet as they made all speed over the plain.

Traditionally, at night or in bad weather, shepherds wear a long sheepskin cloak known as a cojoc or sărică, which has the fleece on the outside.

The 1957 original ($19.94; Sony) is as tight as a drum, with Glenn Ford never better as the quietly menacing outlaw and Van Helfin (never particularly good any other time) just perfect as the stolid rancher who steps in to guard the bad guy and shepherd him to the train station and eventual justice.