"Steik" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... flees come to feasts unbidden," said Mysie; but Sandy gae her a glower that garred her steek her moo gey quick. ...
— My Man Sandy • J. B. Salmond
... reading and knitting, and Nanny was destined to instruct the pupils in that higher branch of accomplishment—the different stitches of the sampler. But about the time that Nanny was advancing to the requisite degree of perfection in chain-steek and pie-holes—indeed had made some progress in the Lord's prayer between two yew trees—tambouring was introduced at Irvine, and Nanny was sent to acquire a competent knowledge of that classic art, honoured by the fair hands of the beautiful Helen and the chaste and domestic ...
— The Ayrshire Legatees • John Galt |
