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Example sentences for "stirabout"

Lexicographically close words:
stipulation; stipulations; stipules; stipulis; stir; stirbt; stirk; stirks; stirless; stirpe
  1. So wan av the quanes brought him his bowl av stirabout an’ thin he found fault wid it.

  2. And with that, bein' altogether cruked tempered at the time, he lifted his hand, and he made one great slam at the dish o' stirabout and killed no less than three score and tin flies at the one blow.

  3. Oh, think o' the iligant stirabout that'll be spylte intirely.

  4. A servant brought us a bowl of stirabout and some rusks and salted codfish, and we breakfasted there in my chamber, scarcely speaking.

  5. And so I saw her with the salt-box, savouring his stirabout so that it should be seasoned to his liking, and, with the cone of sugar, chip such morsels with her knife as he might mumble when he chose.

  6. A servant, wearing a pistol in his belt, brought us bread and hot stirabout in a great blue bowl.

  7. The sons of kings are fed on stirabout made of wheaten meal upon new milk, taken with honey.

  8. The sons of the chieftain grades are fed to satiety on stirabout made of barley-meal upon new milk, taken with fresh butter.

  9. The children of the inferior grades are fed to bare sufficiency on stirabout made of oatmeal on buttermilk or water, and it is taken with stale (salt) butter.

  10. The boy brought the stirabout and the milk, the old woman began to eat, but the first taste she got she spat out and screamed: "You put salt in the pot in place of meal!

  11. She climbed to the gable, looked down, and saw the son making a great pot of stirabout for his mother, and she hurrying him.

  12. When she reached the hag's house, she climbed up the gable to the chimney and found that the son was making stirabout for his mother.

  13. Throw this stirabout to the pig outside and go for water to the well in the field.

  14. Knowing that stirabout was the main food of the hag, Smallhead settled in her mind to play another trick.

  15. And there was a man coming to rise dung in the potato field in the morning, and so, late at night, Mary Glynn was making stirabout and a cake to have ready for breakfast.

  16. Stirabout (lithe) is given to them all, but the flavouring was to be different.

  17. The stirabout of oat-meal might be made on water, or on butter-milk, or on new milk, and given to the different classes in like manner.

  18. Now the old woman in the east told her youngest son to hurry on with his torches, burn the dun, and come back without delay; for the stirabout was boiling and he must not be too late for supper.

  19. Hurry back, for the stirabout is boiling and ready for supper.

  20. I did not, indeed," she replied: "I have the stirabout with me this minute.

  21. So I had to stay where I was with the stirabout under my shawl--" "Did you slip then, dear wife?

  22. I am going to bed," said the Thin Woman, "your stirabout is on the hob.

  23. Your stirabout is on the hob," said the Thin Woman.

  24. The time they ran out of the hedge to fight the policemen I wanted to go with them, but I was afraid the stirabout would be spilt.

  25. Ain't I been makin' stirabout for you these forty years?

  26. In Derry porridge or stirabout always takes the plural: 'Have you dished them yet?

  27. While my aunt was ladling out my stirabout he said, as if returning to some former remark of his: "No, I wouldn't say he was exactly.

  28. I crammed my mouth with stirabout for fear I might give utterance to my anger.

  29. Whether this is exclusive of the stirabout breakfast I saw preparing for them in the school, I forgot to ask.

  30. In the hands of a true Ulsterman stirabout "are" a terrible weapon.

  31. Dora, avillish, give him the could stirabout that's in the skillet, jist for his affection, the crathur.

  32. Here, Nancy Devlin, get Peety and the girsha their skinfuls of stirabout an' milk.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stirabout" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.