"Estray" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... became possessed with a rage. She desired to convert some one, to recover some estray, to reform ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 • Various
... Conyers, Yorkshire: "Near this town, which lies a few miles from Ripon, there is a large common, called Hutton Conyers Moor.... The occupiers of messuages and cottages within the several towns of Hutton Conyers, Melmerby, Baldersby, Rainton, Dishforth, and Hewick have right of estray for their sheep to certain limited boundaries on the common, and each township ...
— A Righte Merrie Christmasse - The Story of Christ-Tide • John Ashton
... margin of the herd. Cheyenne, a nameless estray from the Wyoming ranges, chanced to be holding herd where the two rode up. At him Tom looked, suspicion for the moment ...
— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower
... dress-coats too large for them. The spell was deepened by the fact, which March kept at the bottom of his consciousness for the present, that one of their trunks was missing. This linked him more closely to the travel of other days, and he spent the next forenoon in a telegraphic search for the estray, with emotions tinged by the melancholy of recollection, but in the security that since it was somewhere in the keeping of the state railway, it would be ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells |
