The god withdrew, but straight returned again, In speech and habit like a country swain; And cries out, 'Neighbour, hast thou seen a stray Of bullocks and of heifers pass this way?

Jane finds a stray.

Incredulous I listen now To every tongue, and every vow, For still there yawns a gulf between Those honeyed words, and what they mean; With honest pride elate, I see The sons of falsehood shrink from me, As from the right line's even way The biass'd curves deflecting stray

Eight lines ending stray, businesse, armes, peace, us, her, seene, willingly.

"I should not care to handle any stray moujik one finds dead about the roadside; unless, of course, you think there is more money about him.

We have at times imported into Mogador a stray London Jew or so, of the lower lemon-selling sort.

There let the wanton flocks unguarded stray; Or, while the lonely shepherd sings, Amidst the mighty ruins play, And frisk upon the tombs of kings.

Mentally they had a list of the brands, and before the game opened the strays were divided among the participants.

"Abraham has forgiven me," she whispered, as I bent over her to adjust some stray folds,"forgiven me for all my years of silent deceit.

The famed Meeander, that unwearied strays Through mazy windings, smokes in every maze.

While we were getting these out, Miller cut out two strays and a cow or two, and sent them to the horse pasture at the home camp.