Lexicographical Neighbors of Straiked
Literary usage of Straiked
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 (1886)
"diddle 15 Then out the knight has drawn his sword, An straiked it oer a strae,
An thro and thro the fa'se knight's waste He gard ..."
2. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge, Helen Child Sargent (1890)
"Allan Cunningham says of the ballad, Songs of 154. And syne she ran. 164. 'T was
there. 171. She straiked back. 174. We 'll baith sleep. 61. ..."
3. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1880)
"She took me up in her milk-white hand, And she straiked me three times o'er hei
knee ; She changed me again to my ain proper shape, And I nae mair maun ..."
4. Ballad Book by Katharine Lee Bates (1890)
"She took me up in her milk-white hand, Aud she straiked me three times o'er her
knee ; She changed me again to my ain proper shape, ..."
5. Ballad Book by Katharine Lee Bates (1890)
"She straiked my head, and she kaim'd my hair, And she set me down saftly on her
knee ; Says, " Gin ye will be my lemman sae true, Sae mony braw things as I ..."
6. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1864)
"Then out Lord Randal drew his brand, i» And straiked it o'er a strae; And through
and through the fause knight's waste He gar'd cald iron gae; ..."
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