Lexicographical Neighbors of Stroups
Literary usage of Stroups
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution by Robert Chambers (1858)
""The kirk thought the cross and the stroups superstitious and ethnic-like, ...
arranged to cover the cross with black velvet and to remove the stroups. ..."
2. Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Revolution by Robert Chambers (1874)
"It was accordingly arranged to cover the cross with black velvet and to remove
the stroups.—BUK MAT. There was at this time a collection of money in ..."
3. Life and Times of the Rev. John Wightman, D.D., 1762-1847 by David Hogg (1873)
"They did so, and intimated their opinion that the cross and the stroups were
superstitious; to which an answer was returned, ..."
4. Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Rebellion of 1745 by Robert Chambers (1885)
"... and were asked to satisfy themselves by inspecting the preparations. ' The kirk
thought the cross and the stroups superstitious and ethnic-like, ..."
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