Steads

"It often falls out that a hawk breaks her wing and train-feathers, so that others must be set in their steads, which is termed ` ymping 'them." ❋ Hiram Corson (1869)

Then waxed Grimhild fell at those words, and spake, “Do even as we bid thee, and take therefore great honour, and our friendship, and the steads withal called Vinbjorg and Valbjorg.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now as he spoke, behold, there came another knock at the gate, louder than the first knock, whereupon the servants sprang at the stranger with staves and weapons, to fall upon him and slay him; but he shouted at them, saying, “Bide in your steads, for I am the Angel of Death.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Depart, therefore, forthright and add not cark to my cark and care to my care, neither do thou pretend to rescue me from this my plight; for who shall carry me to thy country through all these vales and thirsty wolds and fatal steads? ❋ Unknown (2006)

He glanced to his left and then his right, but the wide low ridge that had separated the orchard lands from the smaller steads on the outskirts of Tempre held no structures or dwellings, mainly stands of hardwood and leafy softwood, with almost no evergreens. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2006)

Mykel kept studying the high road, and the steads beside the road down toward Tempre. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2006)

And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There were no huts or steads in sight anywhere to the north, suggesting that the regional alector had prohibited them and allowed only seasonal grazing. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2006)

There were close to twenty small steads, but, not surprisingly, no one was out in the fields. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2006)

The roadside steads gave way to occasional meadows set between stretches of woods, and then to unbroken stretches of trees, beginning about fifty yards back from the high road itself. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2006)

There were few huts or steads on the rolling hills to the north of Hyalt, but almost immediately, they passed over a ridge that held a narrow road that hugged the ridge and headed eastward. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2006)

In the first photo, the grass was a jumble of possessions — bedrolls and steamer trunks, strapped orange-crates and disassembled bed-steads. ❋ King, Laurie R. (2005)

Running to the city out of the grain fields and steads that surrounded it, were scores of little figures, rat-like. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But troweth not that I will tell you all the towns, and cities and castles that men shall go by; for then should I make too long a tale; but all only some countries and most principal steads that men shall go through to go the right way. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The harbours are, generally speaking, open and shallow road-steads, where ships find no protection; there is, however, one place (Las Galwayta), where, it is said, deep water extends to the shore. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Thus they fought two hours and more, that their shields and their hauberks were all forhewen, and in many steads they were wounded. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The first steads below the open space contained neat dwellings on small patches of ground, some of them as little as two hundred yards on a side, although most were larger, and all had at least some fruit trees, even some small orchards. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2003)

Only when the column was within two vingts of Salaan, the town's low dwellings visible on the northern horizon, did Alucius begin to see more than scattered steads and dwellings rising out of the brown-grassed rises. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2003)

Guy runs up and punches a guy with a 'Stead' Guy: HAHAHA I punched you and you wont catch me cause [I'm driving] away in my car! *drives* Guy with a 'Stead' takes off his pants and uses his huge ass dick to pick up the car and [throw it]. Guy with Stead: [FUCK YA]! ❋ Hacwan74 (2010)

he is STEAD ❋ Steadytheteddy (2009)

Chyea i saw mah nigga [j-roc] in [the stead] tha otha day we smoked a fat blunt then robbed a [convience store] ❋ SteadCityKillah (2009)

Q: Do you have a [stead]? A: [Yes], My stead is [XYZ]. ❋ NeoXYZ (2009)

“Did u see that fat [old dude]” “yeah he’s [a massive] [stead]” ❋ Poop Poop Poop Poop Poop (2021)

[Leave] his [stead]! It's [not yours]! ❋ T-Jayzel (2005)

I'm from Da Stead [nigga] ❋ Pop$ (2005)

I couldn't [sit down] for a [week] my jonny stead was [playing up] ❋ Shaun Ey (2010)

1)I think I'll [Stead] today 2) I'm having a [steady] sort of day today. Got any [nurofen]? ❋ Guess Who (2003)

Guy 1: "I dont know if i should go for this chick?" Guy 2: "Have you rated her using the Stead-Pollard Rating?" Guy 1: "OH! Of course! I will do that right now!" Face = 1 Smile = [0.5] Tits = 1 Arse = 0 Legs = 0.5 Personality = 1 Intelligent = 0.5 Slutiness Scale = 1 [Drinking Ability] = 0.5 An Overall Physical Attractiveness = 0.5 Total = 6.5 Guy 1: "[thats good] enough for me!" ❋ Anonymous Co. (2011)