streikit

Updated: May 28, 2025

At the back against the wall the curtains, embroidered with the arms of Restalrig, remained closed. 'I sat here all the night, said Mrs. Bower, 'watching the corp that my hands had streikit. The candles were burning a' about him, the saut lay on his breast, only aefold o' linen covered him. My back was to the window, my face to his feet.

Andrew Lang - The Disentanglers

My loaf in my lap, my penny in my purse, Thou art ne'er the better, and I'm ne'er the worse." "That's right, Annie," said the paralytic woman; "God send us a green Yule and a fat kirkyard!" "But I wad like to ken, Luckie Gourlay, for ye're the auldest and wisest amang us, whilk o' these revellers' turn it will be to be streikit first?"

Sir Walter Scott - The Bride of Lammermoor