sark
Example Sentences
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He has been rowed in his mother's sark tail.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
Hir sark suld be hir body nixt, Of chestetie so quhyt, With schame and dreid togidder mixt, The same suld be perfyt.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
Then loud, loud cry'd the Clerk Colvill, "O my head it pains me sair;" "Then take, then take," the maiden said, 25 "And frae my sark you'll cut a gare."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
“I’m thinkin’, Willie,” he began as he saw me enter—“I’m thinkin’ ye hae catched a wet sark.
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Herbert Willis
At the hinder end, he got a clearness in his mind, sat up in his sark on the bed-side, and fell thinkin' ance mair o' the black man an' Janet.
From Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories by Joseph Lewis French