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Definition of Sarks
1. sark [n] - See also: sark
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sarks
Literary usage of Sarks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of a Voyage Round the World: Performed in Her Majesty's Ship by Edward Belcher, Richard Brinsley Hinds, Great Britain Admiralty (1872)
"... sarks— Sewers — Women — Dress of Women and Men — Nine Points of the Law —
Japanese Character — Destructive and Protective Half of Nature —Boats ..."
2. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"Now, wha this tale o' truth shall read, Ilk man, and mother's son, take heed:
220 Whene'er to Drink you are inclin'd, Or Cutty-sarks rin in your mind, ..."
3. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"sarks. A peasant once told me, " That he ance did na intend to take Meg for a
wife, but the cutty saw this, flew to my neck, and measured the sark, ..."
4. Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1851)
"On the 5th March we have the following entry: " For sewing of three sarks for my
Lord-governor, thirty shillings." Not only did his disinterested Grace pay ..."
5. The Real Christian by Simon Peter Jacobs (1899)
"Dr. August Meyer declares: "There is nothing in the Biblical use of the term to
justify the opinion that the flesh \sarks, literal body] is itself evil or ..."
6. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Or cutty-sarks run in your mind, .... Ib. ¡c. Tho1 they should cast the vera sark
and ... And made them a* in sarks to me ; S. The lass that made the bed. ..."
7. Narrative of a Voyage Round the World: Performed in Her Majesty's Ship by Edward Belcher, Richard Brinsley Hinds, Great Britain Admiralty (1872)
"... sarks— Sewers — Women — Dress of Women and Men — Nine Points of the Law —
Japanese Character — Destructive and Protective Half of Nature —Boats ..."
8. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"Now, wha this tale o' truth shall read, Ilk man, and mother's son, take heed:
220 Whene'er to Drink you are inclin'd, Or Cutty-sarks rin in your mind, ..."
9. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"sarks. A peasant once told me, " That he ance did na intend to take Meg for a
wife, but the cutty saw this, flew to my neck, and measured the sark, ..."
10. Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1851)
"On the 5th March we have the following entry: " For sewing of three sarks for my
Lord-governor, thirty shillings." Not only did his disinterested Grace pay ..."
11. The Real Christian by Simon Peter Jacobs (1899)
"Dr. August Meyer declares: "There is nothing in the Biblical use of the term to
justify the opinion that the flesh \sarks, literal body] is itself evil or ..."
12. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Or cutty-sarks run in your mind, .... Ib. ¡c. Tho1 they should cast the vera sark
and ... And made them a* in sarks to me ; S. The lass that made the bed. ..."
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