Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of ScotlandA. Gardner, 1896 - 434 páginas |
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... Compare , Weel saipet is hauf shaven . A BELLENDAINE . The slogan of the Scotts of Buccleuch , from Bellendean , at the head of the Borthwick Water in Roxburghshire , the gathering place of the clan . A BELTLESS bairn cannot lie . A ...
... Compare , Weel saipet is hauf shaven . A BELLENDAINE . The slogan of the Scotts of Buccleuch , from Bellendean , at the head of the Borthwick Water in Roxburghshire , the gathering place of the clan . A BELTLESS bairn cannot lie . A ...
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... Compare , Weel kens the mouse that the cat's oot o ' the house . A BLAW in my lug . A flatterer . " St. Ronan's Well , " ch . 2 . A BOASTER and a liar are near akin . A boaster and a liar are cousins - germain . - E . A BODY'S no broke ...
... Compare , Weel kens the mouse that the cat's oot o ' the house . A BLAW in my lug . A flatterer . " St. Ronan's Well , " ch . 2 . A BOASTER and a liar are near akin . A boaster and a liar are cousins - germain . - E . A BODY'S no broke ...
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... Compare , A dry stick . A DUMB man haud's a ' . i.e. , makes no disclosures . A DUMB man wins nae law . Unless an advocate has the gift of the " gab , " he is of very little use . A DYKE louper . A man who is given to illicit amours ...
... Compare , A dry stick . A DUMB man haud's a ' . i.e. , makes no disclosures . A DUMB man wins nae law . Unless an advocate has the gift of the " gab , " he is of very little use . A DYKE louper . A man who is given to illicit amours ...
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... Compare , Its lang or four bare legs gather heat in a bed . A LAIDLAW maun aye be read backward . The Ettrick Shepherd , " Siege of Roxburgh , " ch . 13 . A LAMBERTON Toll marriage . Compare , A Coldstream marriage . A LANDWARD lad is ...
... Compare , Its lang or four bare legs gather heat in a bed . A LAIDLAW maun aye be read backward . The Ettrick Shepherd , " Siege of Roxburgh , " ch . 13 . A LAMBERTON Toll marriage . Compare , A Coldstream marriage . A LANDWARD lad is ...
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... Compare , A fleyer , etc. A SLOTHFU ' hand maks a slim fortune . Sloth is the mother of poverty - E . So , Sloth is the key to poverty . Spanish . A SMITH'S house is aye lowin ' . A place should always be like the work which is carried ...
... Compare , A fleyer , etc. A SLOTHFU ' hand maks a slim fortune . Sloth is the mother of poverty - E . So , Sloth is the key to poverty . Spanish . A SMITH'S house is aye lowin ' . A place should always be like the work which is carried ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Aberdeenshire Antiquary applied auld bairns baith banes Berwickshire better bird bonny bread Bride of Lammermoor called canna Castle cauld Compare deil dinna doun drink Earl Edinburgh English say Ettrick Shepherd Fair Maid fish fool Fortunes of Nigel frae Gaelic Galt's gang gude Guy Mannering hame hand haud hauf head Heart of Midlothian Henderson Highland horse ilka ither kail keep Kelly King laird Lord Maid of Perth maidens mair man's married maun meat milk mony muckle naething ne'er never Old Mortality ower parish person Perth phrase poor proverb purse Redgauntlet Refers rhyme Rob Roy Ronan's Scotland Scots Scottish siller Spoken stane THERE'S thing toun wark waur Waverley weel wife winna YE hae ye'll YE'RE
Pasajes populares
Página 94 - He answered and said unto them, "When it is evening ye say, 'It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.
Página 81 - O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!
Página 208 - It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour, To see how things are shar'd ; How best o...
Página 100 - Lylliard lies under this stane, Little was her stature, but great was her fame ; Upon the English louns she laid mony thumps, And when her legs were cutted off, she fought upon her stumps.
Página 324 - Hesperus ! thou bringest all good things — Home to the weary, to the hungry cheer, To the young bird the parent's brooding wings, The welcome stall to the...
Página 246 - March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, A bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom.
Página 193 - If Candlemas Day be fair and bright Winter will have another flight But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain Winter is gone and will not come again.
Página 180 - The Man in the Wilderness The Man in the Wilderness asked of me, "How many strawberries grow in the sea?" I answered him, as I thought good, "As many red herrings as grow in the wood.
Página 302 - GRACE. SOME hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it ; But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thanket. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF PEG NICHOLSON. PEG Nicholson was a gude bay mare, As ever trode on airn ; But now she's floating down the Nith, An' past the mouth o
Página 9 - A Knight of Cales, A Gentleman of Wales, And a Laird of the North Countree ; A Yeoman of Kent With his yearly Rent Will buy 'em out all three.