irk
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Irk not thyself while I am gone, my sister.”
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster
In Manchester, the pauper burial-ground lies opposite to the Old Town, along the Irk: this, too, is a rough, desolate place.
From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence
Irk, to become slothful, grow weary, tire, 2709.
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
The south bank of the Irk is here very steep and between fifteen and thirty feet high.
From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence
Above the bridge are tanneries, bonemills, and gasworks, from which all drains and refuse find their way into the Irk, which receives further the contents of all the neighbouring sewers and privies.
From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence
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