Estray

They soon stocked it from the "estray" animals in the street. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Such "estray" or "feral" horses are not covered by the 1971 law that protects established herds of free-roaming mustangs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

No queerer estray ever drifted along the stream of life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Tamím spake as follows: I went out one day in search of an estray and, coming to the waters of the Banu Tayy, saw two companies of people near one another, and behold, those of one company were disputing among themselves even as the other. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He took the handkerchief from his bosom with an air; and kissing it, presented it to her, saying, “This happy estray, thus restored, begs leave, by me, to acknowledge its lovely owner!” ❋ Unknown (2006)

All the day Had been a dreary one at best, and dim Was settling to its close, yet shot one grim Red leer to see the plain catch its estray. ❋ King, Stephen (2004)

Such a practice, by both the rancher finding the estray and the brand inspector, was regarded as a courtesy of the range, observed by all and rarely abused. ❋ Janet Dailey (1983)

The mouth of the driveway at this moment gleamed white from the kerchiefs of a knot of Polish children estray from the quarry district, who, at a laughing nod from Ruth, swooped, a chattering barbaric horde, on the fallen apples dotting a bit of sward with yellow and red. ❋ Mark Lee Luther (N/A)

"The king, knaves!" cried a grimy estray with bells upon his person that jingled like those of a Jewish high priest, to a group of players and gamesters. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)

That our beloved Esther has not fallen a victim to her father's deliberate precautions resulted mainly from accidental finding of a juvenile human estray, without known guardian or antecedents. ❋ Carson Jay Lee (N/A)

He is an animal that has been worth in his day eighteen hundred dollars, an estray from the estate of General S.B. B.ckner. ❋ John Beatty (N/A)

He brought, also, an arithmetic and a speller, but as his knowledge of the first branch only reached to that part of it which lies on the hither side of the multiplication table, and as "Webster" is the chief speller used by children in country schools, and he could not go estray in that point, these facts need not be emphasized. ❋ William Hawley Smith (N/A)

She desired to convert some one, to recover some estray, to reform some wretch. ❋ Various (N/A)

Rainton, Dishforth, and Hewick have right of estray for their sheep to certain limited boundaries on the common, and each township has a shepherd. ❋ John Ashton (N/A)

The lord holds his court the first day in the year, and, to entitle those several townships to such right of estray, the shepherd of each township attends the court, and does fealty by bringing to the court a large apple-pie and a twopenny sweet cake, except the shepherd of Hewick, who compounds by paying sixteenpence for ale ❋ John Ashton (N/A)