'Well!' she said, 'Yah know, it's getting up like nah (now), between a cah (cow) and a cofe -- what we call a stirk, yah know, Miss Bronte; will yah turn it this way if yah happen to see't, as yah're going back, Miss Bronte; nah DO, Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2] Reference
I drew nigher without being perceived, and the light still holding, saw that 'twas a young stirk or heifer the man was disembowelling. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
“And leave us neither stirk nor stot,” said the youngest brother, who now entered, “nor sheep nor lamb, nor aught that eats grass and corn.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Dwarf] Reference
But beware of MacPhadraick, my son; for when he called himself the friend of your father, he better loved the most worthless stirk in his herd than he did the life-blood of. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of the Canongate] Reference
Briggs was hanging on to a particularly wild stirk, his back towards me, and I'll never know if he was thrown back or one of the other men nudged my arm because next moment he let out an anguished yell. From Wordnik.com. [Every living thing]
On the low road it was not so bad; but when we took the hill road again, I fain would have turned my back to the gale, and stood like a stirk on a wet day, but I powled on after Dan, thinking shame of my coward heart. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
"Git on wi 'it, ye stammerin' stirk!" cried M'Adam. From Wordnik.com. [Bob, Son of Battle] Reference
Nor was the stirk she bore, whether bullock or wy (` heifer '). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference
` ` No --- he that steals a cow from a poor widow or a stirk from. From Wordnik.com. [The Waverley] Reference
Steik the door, Peter -- and ticht, that no a stray stirk may hear me!. From Wordnik.com. [Salted with Fire] Reference
'No; he that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cotter, is. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
And Mr. Cathro made the best of it, wringing Tommy's hand effusively, while muttering, "Fool, donnard stirk, gowk!". From Wordnik.com. [Tommy and Grizel] Reference
"And leave us neither stirk nor stot," said the youngest brother, who now entered, "nor sheep nor lamb, nor aught that eats grass and corn.". From Wordnik.com. [The Black Dwarf] Reference
'No; he that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cotter, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird is a gentleman-drover. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference
` ` And leave us neither stirk nor stot, '' said the youngest brother, who now entered, ` ` nor sheep nor lamb, nor aught that eats grass and corn. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Dwarf] Reference
'No -- he that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cottar, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird, is a gentleman-drover. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference
It was a full and satisfying paper, with its agricultural advertisements, its roups, reported with an accuracy of detail that condescended on a solitary stirk, its local intelligence, its facetious anecdotes. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers] Reference
"Twice to Carlisle fair," says I, for I am a man wha loves the truth; and besides I kenned that the factor would mind my gaeing there, for I bargained fur twa steers and a stirk that he wanted for the stockin 'o' the Drumleugh Fairm. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Cloomber] Reference
“‘You look to me,’ she said, ‘like a stirk that is roped for the axe. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
"Odd! my verra heart lap to my mouth whan I gat the glisk o 'something mair like a red stirk than ought else muve off the redd. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
"He's maist michty unsettled like," replied Saunders, "he's for a 'the world like a stirk wi' a horse cleg on him that he canna get at. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference
‘No; he that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cotter, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird is a gentleman-drover. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
"I was a friendless lad, and ye took me by the hand, -- and could I sit still and see scathe befa 'my benefactor, I wouldna be a stirk. From Wordnik.com. [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference
Eng. stirk, a heifer. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
Yere still as great a stirk. From Wordnik.com. [The Calf] Reference
The stirk stands i 'the tether. From Wordnik.com. [English Songs and Ballads] Reference
He's no a stirk o 'the right stock. From Wordnik.com. [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference
This yin a stot an thon a stirk. From Wordnik.com. [XII. The Scotmans Return from Abroad] Reference
I'll fell you like a stirk. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Coast] Reference
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