Usage examples:
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There
are
perhaps
some
little
calves,
some
little
new-
yeaned
lambs-
it
may
be
twins,
whose
mothers
have
rejected
them.
Charlotte Brontë in "Shirley".
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See,
sick
at
heart
I
drive
my
she-
goats
on,
And
this
one,
O
my
Tityrus,
scarce
can
lead:
For
'mid
the
hazel-
thicket
here
but
now
She
dropped
her
new-
yeaned
twins
on
the
bare
flint,
Hope
of
the
flock-
an
ill,
I
mind
me
well,
Which
many
a
time,
but
for
my
blinded
sense,
The
thunder-
stricken
oak
foretold,
oft
too
From
hollow
trunk
the
raven's
ominous
cry.
Virgil in "The Bucolics and Eclogues".
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Behold,
my
goats
I
am
driving,
Heartsick,
further
away;
this
one
scarce,
Tityrus,
lead
I;
For
having
here
yeaned
twins
just
now
among
the
dense
hazels,
Hope
of
the
flock,
ah
me!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in "The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow".
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In
a
copse
near
where
she
stood
a
little
bird
was
busy
with
her
fledglings,
and
from
a
meadow
came
the
plaintive
bleat
of
a
late
yeaned
lamb.
Marshall Mather in "Lancashire Idylls (1898)".