straik

Gess eet wuz spozed tew straik feer n2 teh hartz ub owr opponints.

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Wher with his thretty he chargit vpon threscore of ther horsmen with culuerins, not folowed with seuen of his nomber; wha in our sicht straik v of them fra ther horse with his speir, before it brak; then he drew his swerd and ran in amang them, not caring ther continuell schutting, to the admiration of the behalders.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

The redding straik, namely, a blow received by a peacemaker who interferes betwixt two combatants to red or separate them, is proverbially said to be the most dangerous blow a man can receive.

Chapter XXVII 1917

(Sweet fruits are sair to gather) "That the straik of his hand should raise his dead?"

Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

But na! they'll be upon her, an 'I'm feart there's ae unco black ane yon'er -- dinna ye see 't -- wi' a straik o 'white, aboot the thrapple

Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

Ye maun jist straik her canny, an 'wile the music oot o' her; for she's like ither women: gin ye be rouch wi 'her, ye winna get a word oot o' her.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

[Footnote: The redding straik, namely, a blow received by a peacemaker who interferes betwixt two combatants, to red or separate them, is proverbially said to be the most dangerous blow a man can receive.]

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

[Footnote: The redding straik, namely, a blow received by a peacemaker who interferes betwixt two combatants, to red or separate them, is proverbially said to be the most dangerous blow a man can receive.]

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

[Footnote: The redding straik, namely, a blow received by a peacemaker who interferes betwixt two combatants, to red or separate them, is proverbially said to be the most dangerous blow a man can receive.]

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

A synod had been called to consider some nice point, hardly palpable to common understandings, but which everybody thought a very important point notwithstanding, and three gentlemen speaking at once to contrary purposes were about to be interrupted by a fourth of a different opinion still, when enter comet -- a real Moderator -- and at one stroke decides what poor mankind had been wrangling about for centuries, and what, to all appearance, but for this 'redding straik,' they would have wrangled about for centuries to come.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852 Various 1841