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Definition of Bellwethers
1. bellwether [n] - See also: bellwether
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bellwethers
Literary usage of Bellwethers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of New Netherland Or, New York Under the Dutch: Or, New York Under by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1848)
"... learn the sentiments of the commonalty—Consequent rupture between them and
the Director-general—The " bellwethers" prosecuted—Delegates from the militia ..."
2. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution by Henry Barton Dawson (1886)
"The first of these "prompted the Shepherd!* to shear лоте uf their Flock ; and,
then, in " conjunction with the other, converted the bellwethers into ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1866)
"We cannot but think that the flocks arc overrating both the sagacity and the
power of the bellwethers, as docile sheep are somewhat apt to do. ..."
4. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"bellwethers, presuming to have more excellent wit than those in England," caused
the rejection of the The ..."
5. Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans by Harold E. Stearns (1922)
"... and bellwethers. Examine him at leisure, and you will find that he is incompetent
and imbecile, and not only incompetent and imbecile, ..."
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