"Sneck" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of excise. He went to bed about ten o'clock, and about an hour and a-half thereafter, he was waked out of sleep by a noise and some chapping at the door of the room where he lay—which door he had secured before he went to bed by screwing down the sneck of the door—which noise the deponent at first imagined was occasioned by some drunken people in the house; but afterwards, upon the strokes on the door being repeated with violence, the deponent jumped out of his bed, and heard the ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 • Alexander Leighton
... room a-tiptoe I very gently laid my hand on the 'sneck' of 'Brownie's' den and tried ...
— Border Ghost Stories • Howard Pease
... haunch to heel, seven round the waist. I give your honour leave to hang Shemus, if there's a pair of sheers in the Highlands that has a baulder sneck than her's ain at the cumadh an ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... held no parlance with the feeding friar, but going straight up the walk to the door of a lodging, to the which this was the parterre and garden, he laid his hand on the sneck, and opening it, bade my grandfather ...
— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt
... the wind o'er Donocht head, The snaw drives snelly thro' the dale, The Gaberlunzie tirls my sneck, And, shivering, tells his waefu' tale. "Cauld is the night, O let me in, And dinna let your minstrel fa', And dinna let his winding-sheet Be naething but a ...
— The Letters of Robert Burns • Robert Burns |
