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Example sentences for "stirks"

Lexicographically close words:
stipulis; stir; stirabout; stirbt; stirk; stirless; stirpe; stirps; stirr; stirre
  1. There were not many signs of human life about; some sheep were vainly endeavouring to find pasturage, and a few stirks stood gazing vacantly in the meadow, their breath visible in the frosty air.

  2. Whinnie was wrestling with two stirks to get them into a field--with the result that one went up the road and another down, after the manner of their kind--and had no leisure for conversation.

  3. A 'll drive doon the twa stirks the mom's morn," for Whinnie was anxious to show his zeal.

  4. I'm afraid your Ladyship will frighten our stirks and stots with your finery.

  5. And so primed, old Giles set off with his six stirks to St Boswell's.

  6. I hereby renounce all claim to six stirks at present lying at the farm of Kelpiehaugh, and promise never to trouble Giles Ramsay for the same.

  7. The time passed, and Giles saw before him nothing but the necessity of driving the stirks back again to Kelpiehaugh--an operation he by no means relished.

  8. At a very good Hallow Fair, I had forty small-horned Cabrach beasts and forty small polled stirks standing alongside of each other.

  9. He selected them generally when stirks from all the eminent breeders of Galloway cattle, and bought nearly all the prize stirks at the different shows.

  10. Stirks starve--heifers are hove with windy nothing--with oxen frogs compete in bulk with every prospect of a successful issue, and on such pasturage where would be the virility of the Bulls of Bashan?

  11. And then all four of us were at the porch, and the door of the great kitchen opened, and there stood Alison, holding a lamp above her head, just as she had stood when I and the Stirks came to warn her of her danger but a few nights before.


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