Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at stair's.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Stair's.

Examples

  • Alas, though many large employers are willing to make 15-year loans, smaller employers frequently are not, warns Ronald Stair, a principal at Creative Plan Designs, of East Meadow, N.Y. Stair's firm administers many 401k plans for companies that don't wish to administer their plans in house.

    Tap Retirement Funds To Buy A Home? 2010

  • Scotland in the seventeenth century, and of course Lord Stair's "auld witch wife" was adjudged guilty of the whole tragedy.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • They were evidently, from Lord Stair's replies to their objections, afraid to have any dealings with him.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

  • What was the nature of that reply, [168] does not appear; but its result was such as to cast upon Lord Mar a degree of odium far greater than that which he had incurred in Lord Stair's business.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

  • Lady Stair's daughter was singularly unlike the mother who bore her, for the beautiful Janet Dalrymple was a gentle, shrinking, highly strung girl, who was like wax in the hands of one who ruled her household with

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • These reasons given to a woman of Lady Stair's type were scarcely likely to be listened to with much patience, and Janet Dalrymple and Lord

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • On the supposition that Knox himself had so written it, Professor Forbes, in noticing the Lord President Stair's descent from one of the Lollards of

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

  • The girl herself was present, but, had the tales of Lady Stair's dealings with the Evil One been true, she could not have substituted for her beautiful, happy daughter any witch-made thing that looked more lifeless than the poor, white-faced creature that sat with silent lips and down-cast eyes, terror-ridden, broken-hearted.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • Possibly among all the "old, unhappy, far-off things" there is none more pitiful than the tale of the Earl of Stair's daughter and her luckless lover, Lord Rutherfurd.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • Possibly he had had it lightly sketched to him by Lady Stair's skilled hand, as a mere girlish fancy, likely to be very soon past and already entirely on the wane.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.