black sheep

Over the past 12 months we have identified a few black sheep.

In Mary, he sees a sinner like himself—a friend of Christians, but a black sheep.

Despite being a Hollywood black sheep, Mel Gibson found a reliable confidant in Trawick and the two became very close.

Clinton jokes that Barbara Bush refers to him as her “black-sheep son.”

But Bowie rarely spoke about the black sheep in his family, who spent most of his adult life in a mental institution.

Harry took his bed into the spare-room, and Black Sheep lay down to die.

And with these, and the society of Jane on board-wages, Black Sheep was left alone for a month.

Uncle Harry took him for walks and consoled him with rough tenderness, never calling him Black Sheep.

For hours the gray man would sit on a tombstone, while Black Sheep read epitaphs, and then with a sigh would stump home again.

"He 's getting well," thought Black Sheep, who knew the song through all its seventeen verses.