I used to imagine the hooded figures – choir monks and the lay brothers who ran the monastic granges and sheep shearing stations, with their brindling flocks and their creaking wagons – passing solemnly and silently up the track as the great bells of Rievaulx tolled below.
Perhaps something happened at the sheep-shearing station where Jake worked, the only woman among a shedful of foul-mouthed, rough and ready men.
At the beginning of The Natural Way of Things, 10 young women wake from a drugged sleep to find they've been abducted and taken to a derelict sheep-shearing station somewhere in the Australian outback.
Junior medical officers are attached to ships or to shore stations and deal with most cases of sickness in their units.
In August 1894, strikers burned a shearing shed at Dagworth Station with a loss of 140 sheep.
I've helped out with shearing sheep at a station in the Australian Outback, I've seen the vastly different landscapes of the deserts in Egypt and Jordan, and when I looked out the window of my hotel in Las Vegas, it hit me once again how powerful control over water can be.
At the scene of the worst bombing in Baghdad, where explosives piled in a blue pickup toppled a police station and sheared the top floors off a block of houses, residents on Saturday walked aimlessly through houses in which they could no longer sleep.
When a 34-member assessment team showed up in May, Mr. Gifford sent all but five of them into the field immediately to try to shore up returning police station commanders, establish traffic control, help police leadership and start training at the police academy.
"Sitting miserably at his station with his shears and his awls and his crimping tools," Sides writes, "Kit began to dream of Santa Fe".
Fig. 5 Results of shear wave splitting at each station.
