| 单词 | stirk |
| 例句 | Young men, sir, dinna enter Aberdeen University stirks and come out cuddies?” Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z I have no mind to waste a half-spent thrall To prove I love you; and to buy another Would need more money than eight red-polled stirks. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z 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. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 Down with thee and see if thou canst stand up to a man, thou great stirk. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway “Is it men or stirks, you would give to the butcher?” A Prince of Good Fellows Confound these stirks—if that white one, with caving horns, kicking heels, and straight-up tail, come bellowing by between us and the river, then, "Madam! all is lost, except honour!" Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Brangwen left her there, in charge of the barman, whilst he went to see about the selling of some young stirks. The Rainbow I drew nigher without being perceived, and the light still holding, saw that 'twas a young stirk or heifer the man was disembowelling. Border Ghost Stories He's no a stirk o' the right stock. The Proverbs of Scotland How much would you want for a good, fat stirk? A Prince of Good Fellows At the same fair next year we had bought, as we found on comparing our books, ninety-nine cattle, mostly stirks. Cattle and Cattle-breeders 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. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers The childer came back frae school, and then Mike came, and the first thing he axed was if Amos had gotten back wi' the stirks. More Tales of the Ridings "No wonderful, lasting treasure was this precious prize for us," said Cormac, "that cannot defend himself against a stirk of his own age!" The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge The oxen were large and well-fleshed, but not fat; and we bought an ox for two knives, and a stirk, or young beast, for one knife. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 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. Cattle and Cattle-breeders I'm afraid your Ladyship will frighten our stirks and stots with your finery. Marriage He was "big as a stirk," one informant has declared The "fearsome tail" appears to have been not the least impressive thing about it. Elves and Heroes "He watched all last night while we slept away like a pair o' stirks." The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan "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." The Black Dwarf At a very good Hallow Fair, I had forty small-horned Cabrach beasts and forty small polled stirks standing alongside of each other. Cattle and Cattle-breeders I have doubled stirks at Hallow Fair, buying them at from £2 to £4, and, to use an Aberdeen expression, turning them heels over heads. Cattle and Cattle-breeders |
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