Sheppard

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Sheppard [ˈʃɛpəd]

(Biographies / Sheppard, Jack (1702-1724) M, English, CRIME AND POLICING: criminal) Jack. 1702-24, English criminal, whose daring escapes from prison were celebrated in many contemporary ballads and plays

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press pressed			heart, or a shilling for a pair of chromolithographic pictures or delft figures to place on his mantelboard, suffered greater privation for the sake of possessing a work of art than the great landlord or shareholder who paid a thousand pounds, which he was too rich to miss, for a portrait that, like Hogarth's Jack Sheppard, was only interesting to students of criminal physiognomy. An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context They are worthy to rank with Cruikshank's illustrations of Jack Sheppard and The Tower of London, as mementoes of the little old smokeless London before the century of Johnson, though that, too, as Dr. The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context To those great geniuses now in petticoats, who shall write novels for the beloved reader's children, these men and things will be as much legend and history as Nineveh, or Coeur de Lion, or Jack Sheppard. Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context			Shepherd bird shepherd dog Shepherd kings shepherd satellite shepherd's clock Shepherd's club shepherd's crook shepherd's dog shepherd's needle shepherd's pie shepherd's pipe Shepherd's plaid shepherd's pouch shepherd's purse Shepherd's rod shepherd's weatherglass shepherd's-purse shepherd’s shepherdess Shepherdia Shepherdish Shepherdism Shepherdling Shepherdly Shephered spider Sheppard Sheppey Shepster sheqel sherang sherardisology sherardize Sheraton sherbert sherbet Sherborne Sherbrooke sherd Shereef sheria Sheriat Sheridan sherif sheriff sheriff court sheriff's sale Sheriffalty sherlock Sherlock Holmes Sherman Shern			Shepherdess' herb Shepherdess's herb Shepherdesses Shepherdesses Shepherdesses Shepherdia Shepherdia shepherding shepherding shepherding shepherding satellite Shepherdish Shepherdism Shepherdling Shepherdly shepherds shepherds shepherds Shepherds Bush Housing Association Shepherds of Christ Ministries Shepherds pie Shepherds' Crusade Shepherds' pie Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association Shepherdstown Fire Department Shephered spider SHEPI Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott SHEPP Shepp, Archie Sheppard Sheppard AFB Sheppard AFB TX Sheppard Air Force Base Sheppard Performance Racing League Sheppard Technical Training Center Sheppard's correction Sheppard, Eugenia Sheppard, Jack Sheppard, Morris Sheppard, Sam Sheppard, Samuel H. Shepparton and District Amateur Radio Club, Inc. Shepparton District Interagency Team Shepparton Irrigation Region Implementation Committee Shepparton Preserving Company Shepperd's Dell Shepperd's Dell State Natural Area Sheppey Sheppey Sheppey, Isle of SHEPS

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