stoury

Below us the hillside dipped three or four hundred feet in a sharp slant bushed over with young _darach_ wood; behind us hung a tremendous rock that few standing upon would think had a hollow heart Here was our refuge, and the dry and stoury alleys of the fir-wood we had traversed gave no clue of our track to them that might hunt us.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

I've seen me in the camp at night, dog-wearied after stoury marching on their cursed foreign roads, keeping my eyes open and the sleep at an arm's-length, that I might think of Shira Glen.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

Save us! what a brushing of coats, such a switching of stoury trowsers, and bleaching of white cotton stockings, as took place before the catastrophe of the feast, never before happened since Jeddert was a burgh.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

Save us! what a brushing of coats, such a switching of stoury trowsers, and bleaching of white cotton stockings, as took place before the catastrophe of the feast, never before happened since Jeddert was a burgh.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824