sparks

Example Sentences

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Do ye think fowk wash their flags afore they hing them oot, like sarks or sheets?

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George

Braxfield indignantly remarked that the Crown Counsel should have called them by the Scottish name of sarks, which applied to both sexes.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Ramsay, Edward Bannerman

Where the knights in iron sarks Journeying to the Holy Land,40 Glove of steel upon the hand, Cross of crimson on the breast?

From Poems on Travel by Various

Just then in walked Halvor, and then the lassies were all so taken aback, they forgot their sarks in the ingle, where they were sitting darning their clothes, and ran out in their smocks.

From Popular Tales from the Norse by Dasent, George Webbe

Just then in walked Halvor, and then the lassies were all so taken aback, they forgot their sarks in the ingle, where they were sitting darning their clothes, and ran out 108 in their smocks.

From East of the Sun and West of the Moon Old Tales from the North by Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen