sark

Example Sentences

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The reader at Wythburn had for his salary three pounds yearly, a hempen sark or shirt, a whittlegate, and a goosegate, or right to depasture a flock of geese on Helvellyn.

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel

They leave not spindle, spoon, nor speit, Bed, blanket, bolster, sark, nor sheet, John o’ the Park Rypes kist and ark; For all sic wark He is richt meet.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

Then loud, loud cry'd the Clerk Colvill, "O my head it pains me sair;" "Then take, then take," the maiden said, 25 "And frae my sark you'll cut a gare."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

Broad was her headgear, a brooch on her breast; She wore trailing sashes and a blue-dyed sark.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus

For thou must shape a sark to me, 30 Ba, ba, &c.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various