So they got the name of "Berserkers," and in Scotland to this day the word "sark" is used to mean shirt. From Wordnik.com. [An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls] Reference
She wore a kind of sark of shadowy black veil, sewn over with sparkling bits of gem. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
His face is a 'bladdit, his sark-breest a' smaddit. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Likewise the battle-sark which in the fight endured. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
There me 'gainst the loathly the body-sark mine, 550. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
The fast locked limb-sark, with fingers all loathly. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
The sark stain'd with war-sweat, the all-golden swine. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
With his war-tusks was breaking his sark of the battle. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
With her sark tail wiggle waggle into the close she ran. From Wordnik.com. [The Barns o' Beneuches] Reference
The "wetting of the sark-sleeve," that custom of Scotland and. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
Then returning to his new master he took up his woollen sark. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
Olaf's neck, and even helped him to draw off his kirtle and woollen sark. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
Friend, for surety and comfort of my heart deliver me now some sark of thine. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
Yes, it is those darn scientists and policy makers who are slowing things down sark. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Had a Little List] Reference
I put on my woolen cutty sark for insulation beneath my buckskins, and two pairs of stockings. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
From the corner of his eye, he could see Jamie, standing frozen and pale as his best linen sark. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
In Maryland girls see their future husbands by a rite similar to the Scotch "wetting of the sark-sleeve.". From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
If she lie awake long enough, she will see the form of her future spouse enter the room and turn the sark. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
So the knight rendered the sark to his lady, and made such bargain as she wished, for the peace and assurance of her mind. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
“I hae it frae as sure a hand,” said Ailsie, “and frae them that spaed his fortune before the sark gaed ower his head.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
He keepit naething on but his inside sark, an 'his drawers, an' a pair o 'slippers, an' aff he set to rin ootby to the targets an 'back. From Wordnik.com. [My Man Sandy] Reference
Standing bare-legged in her 'sark-vallie-coat,' at twelve o'clock at night, conferring with the devil, who was dressed in green clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
"Pull up the right sleeves of your jerkin and sark.". From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance] Reference
"This sark is as black as the lum, and maun be plotted.". From Wordnik.com. [Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII] Reference
But the dead were Iron-shield aforesaid, and Wool-sark, and the. From Wordnik.com. [The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale] Reference
As coarse as Nancie's harn sark, -- three threads out o 'the pound. From Wordnik.com. [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference
Is it?. sig. the tulse luper suitcases, part 3: from sark to the finish. From Wordnik.com. Reference
(but Cuddie aye liked a blue ribband,) and a ruffled sark, like ony lord. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
Vigafray Hutch TheHyperVertigo irk Seattle ode xcom capture sark constant. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Internet social networking is challenging our notion of privacy] Reference
The frill o 'my sark-breast wadna lie in the position in which I wanted it!. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII] Reference
He'll burn their hooses, take their very claes, and strip them to the very sark. From Wordnik.com. [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
"A clean thing's kindly," quo 'the wife when she turned her sark after a month's wear. From Wordnik.com. [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference
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