"Shepherdess" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... With shield upon his arm, in knightly wise, Belted and mailed, his helmet on his head; The knight more lightly through the forest hies Than half-clothed churl to win the cloth of red. But not from cruel snake more swiftly flies The timid shepherdess, with startled tread, Than poor Angelica the bridle turns When she the approaching knight ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto
... the shepherdess, smacking her lips, 'that was somethin' like!' And she put out her tongue and licked her lips, and then ...
— Liza of Lambeth • W. Somerset Maugham
... those Watteau things!" began Miss Lawrence disdainfully. "They all savor of bread-and-butter girls,—a shepherdess with her crook,—bah! And I've been Marie Stuart so many times. If it were a masquerade; but garden-parties are beginning to prove bores, after all. There is nothing new about them, only to out-shine every other woman. A high ambition, is it not, ...
— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas
... does the honours, singing; and to amuse the PRINCESS, a small musical comedy is played, the subject of which is as follows:—A shepherd complains to two other shepherds, his friends, of the coldness of her whom he loves; the two friends comfort him; at that moment the beloved shepherdess appears, and all three retire to observe her. After a plaintive love-song, she reclines on the turf, and gives way to sweet slumber. The lover makes his two friends approach to contemplate the beauty of his shepherdess, and invokes everything to contribute to her rest. The shepherdess, ...
— The Magnificent Lovers (Les Amants magnifiques) • Moliere
... you were a WATTEAU Shepherdess And I were a gipsy lad, I'd teach you tunes that the blackbird trills And show you the dance of the daffodils, The white moon rising over the hills, And Night in her ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 • Various
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