sark

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“Out went Sigurd From that interview Into the hall of kings, Writhing with anguish; So that began to start The ardent warrior’s Iron-woven sark Off from his sides.”

From Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

Chemise, she-mēz′, n. a woman's shirt or sark, a smock or shift.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 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 Willis, Herbert

Then she's gi'ed him a little bane-knife, And frae her sark he cut a share; She's ty'd it round his whey-white face, But ay his head it aked mair.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

At the hinder end he got a clearness in his mind, sat up in his sark on the bed-side, an’ fell thinkin’ ance mair o’ the black man an’ Janet.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis