"Strang" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the bairn, Aw's sure aw'll not stop lang, Aw'd tyek the jewl me-sel, But really aw's not strang. Thor's flooer and coals te get, The hoose-torns thor not deun, So haud the bairn for fairs, Ye're ...
— Northumberland Yesterday and To-day • Jean F. Terry
... here my Muse her wing maun cour; Sic flights are far beyond her power: To sing how Nannie lap and flang (A souple jad she was and strang), And how Tam stood like ane bewitched, And thought his very een enriched. Even Satan glowered and fidged fu' fain, And hotched and blew wi' might and main; Till first ae caper, syne anither, Tam tint his reason a' thegither, And ...
— English Poets of the Eighteenth Century • Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Bernbaum |
