Lexicographical Neighbors of Kirking
Literary usage of Kirking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge (1884)
"12 And go with us unto some kirk — You say they are built of stane — And let us
all be christened, And you get gude kirking. 13 She took the youngest in her ..."
2. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1866)
"And go with us into some good kirk,— You say they are built of stane,— And let
us all be christened, And you get good kirking." She took the youngest in her ..."
3. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"kirking—That ceremony of attending the kirk the first Sabbath after marriage ;
to the modest this is the most trying concern in the matter, and commonly the ..."
4. The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer: (Coinneach Odhar Fiosaiche) by Alexander Mackenzie, Kenneth Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor (1882)
"But should there be two or three, as frequently occurs, in the same week, the
kirking affair is entirely altered, and becomes a matter of no small ..."
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