"Sheepcote" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... took the body and laid it on the sledge and drove to Bergthorsknoll, and drew it into the sheepcote, and made him sit ...
— Njal's Saga • Unknown Icelanders
... Muir, was fought on a Sunday; after both armies had been under arms all night. No tent was pitched for the Duke of Argyle's men, either by officer or soldier, on that cold November evening. Each officer was at his post, nor could they much complain whilst their General sat on straw, in a sheepcote, at the foot of the hill, called Sherriff Muir, which overlooks Dumblane, on the right of his army. In the dead of the night, the Duke, by his spies, learned where the enemy were; for, although on account of the hills and broken ground, they could ...
— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. - Volume I. • Mrs. Thomson
... me would have launched another "thousand ships." In the slight action all the charm of her was voiced exquisitely. Grace, sweetness and dignity—all in a bow. So it was always. Helen's features would not have fired a sheepcote: the charm that lighted them blotted out a city. Cleopatra's form would not have spoiled a slave: the magnetism of her ruined Marc Antony. Elizabeth's speech would not have sunk a coracle: the personality behind ...
— The Brother of Daphne • Dornford Yates |
