lamblike , also: lamby

Of course I was lamblike to these others, and pretty much a lamb to myself.

The youth, deep in thought, glanced up at the bloody and grim figure with its lamblike eyes.

Emily, who had been lamblike so far, had suddenly taken it into her head to strip off.

We followed lamblike, dropping like ninepins at each turn.

A new month has arrived, lamblike, but leonine weather could be lurking in these last weeks of winter.

Under its in- fluence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness.

Tad was lamblike.

Impotent rage or even lamblike meekness with a glaze of bafflement, if either of those responses amused him.

The meat was delicate and lamblike with an elusive goatiness that recalled ethnic rugs or mohair sweaters - but in a nice way.

Inside, a little lamblike creature, also made of white plaster, stares up at the viewer, its face a mixture of animal and human, vulnerability and curiosity.

I do not mention the circumstance as any Reproach on that worthy and lamblike Dame, [1] but merely to show you how affairs stand.

That work has given me a deep - if perhaps naïve and lamblike - faith that these are great times for bridge building, alliance making and solution finding.

Mrs. Canovas, who previously designed couture accessories for the House of Dior, also uses Persian lamblike embroidery and bookbinding motifs in her latest collection.

Spring may be just around the corner, but a bone-chilling burst of arctic air shattered records all along the Eastern Seaboard yesterday as March blustered along more leonine than lamblike.

The lamblike beast is generally interpreted in Christian belief to be an ally of the Antichrist, who will appear before the end of the world actually occurs, Mr. Newport said.

And every evening at the setting of the watch the Surprise snugged down to topsails: there was no trusting the sudden flurries of the night, in spite of the lamblike innocence of the day.

More wintry weather has finally arrived, just in time to end an unusually lamblike December that was marked by Christmas surfing, frantic snow-making at Eastern ski resorts, and warehouses full of road salt and dormant plows.

"The prophecy of Revelation 13 declares that the power represented by the beast with lamblike horns shall cause "the earth and them which dwell therein" to worship the papacy-there symbolised by the beast "like unto a leopard."

"They may live poor, but they'll spend their last money on a good dog, and that dog will want for nothing," said Tatyana Diyeyeva, who grooms poodles and lamblike Bedlington terriers for as much as $50 a session.

As the novel's text reads when Joey asks his lover, Sandra Dugan, if he's "intimidating": "The blue eyes were lacking in threat, the half-curly hair was lamblike in spite of Joey's efforts to keep it slick and tough.

It has been shown that the United States is the power represented by the beast with lamblike horns, and that this prophecy will be fulfilled when the United States shall enforce Sunday observance, which Rome claims as the special acknowledgement of her supremacy.

But they are lamblike compared with her columns, which called the publisher of this newspaper a "traitor," and (at a more innocent time, before California recalled governors) declared the possibility of an Al Gore-Gray Davis presidential ticket "the only compelling argument yet in favor of friendly fire."

Mr. Giuliani, who for the last year and a half roared at the first lady as a carpetbagger whose candidacy made no sense in New York, was suddenly lamblike yesterday morning as he spoke of the new political colleague who was replacing the retiring Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

At the Boston conference, Dr. Kenneth G. C. Newport, who teaches theology at Liverpool Hope University College in England, traced the image of the lamblike beast from the book of Revelation to its role in the theology of David Koresh and the Branch Davidians.

Our lamblike innocence thus protected, we're that much freer to enjoy the sultry vision of Julie Newmeyer (later known as Julie Newmar, TV's Catwoman), in a wasp-waisted white corset and bloomers, lasciviously lounging on one of the brothers' vacated beds, wondering which one of them slept in it.