As she spoke, Becky pointed proudly to the wide, smooth fields lying before them, newly shorn of grass or grain, waving with corn, or rich in garden crops ripening for winter stores.

The bereaved appeared before Assembly in torn mourning clothes, their hair newly shorn and strewn with ashes.

I noticed that you were running through the village like a lamb newly shorn.

But they snapped to attention when the Rev. Al Sharpton strode to the podium, his trademark pompadour newly shorn, his voice hovering over the dingy room as he explained why he could and should be elected mayor.

His newly shorn scalp reported that he had only a quarter-inch of hair now, the rest buzzed off during the haze of a barbershop visit.

Senator Eugene McCarthy - with an army of young supporters, newly shorn and "clean for Gene" - had won the New Hampshire primary.

Like the rocky canyons near her valley, large blocks, newly sheared from the walls, lay scattered and broken on the ground.

Blade fingered his newly shorn beard and smiled.

Newly shorn, Josh seemed older, as he proved to be.

Their newly shorn pates gleamed in the firelight, telling Rory the pair had come from Ban Ean.