Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of ScotlandA. Gardner, 1896 - 434 páginas |
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... bairns . Abundans cautela non nocet . - L . Refers to the universal fatherhood of God . AE fine thing needs twa to set it off . " AE gude turn deserves another , " as the deil said to the loon o ' Culloden , when he hauled him doun ...
... bairns . Abundans cautela non nocet . - L . Refers to the universal fatherhood of God . AE fine thing needs twa to set it off . " AE gude turn deserves another , " as the deil said to the loon o ' Culloden , when he hauled him doun ...
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... bairns I am but a priest's oe ( grand- child ) . Spoken when some one has been slighted . AMANGST twenty - four fools not one wise man . - Fergusson . AN Aberdeen man ne'er stands to the word that hurts 36 PROVERBS .
... bairns I am but a priest's oe ( grand- child ) . Spoken when some one has been slighted . AMANGST twenty - four fools not one wise man . - Fergusson . AN Aberdeen man ne'er stands to the word that hurts 36 PROVERBS .
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... bairn that's paid at e'en as he that gets his paiks in the morning . Punishment or misfortune is much the same whenever ... bairns . The first part is universally prevalent . Ray gives another form , The young pig grunts like the old sow ...
... bairn that's paid at e'en as he that gets his paiks in the morning . Punishment or misfortune is much the same whenever ... bairns . The first part is universally prevalent . Ray gives another form , The young pig grunts like the old sow ...
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... bairns mak ' fools o ' physicians . The former on the stren ; th of their experience , and the latter from ignorance . AULD wives were aye gude maidens . AVANT Dernele ! i.e. , forward Darnley ! The slogan PROVERBS . 51.
... bairns mak ' fools o ' physicians . The former on the stren ; th of their experience , and the latter from ignorance . AULD wives were aye gude maidens . AVANT Dernele ! i.e. , forward Darnley ! The slogan PROVERBS . 51.
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... BAIRNS ' mither bursts never . Because she will keep meat out of her own mouth to put it in theirs . -Kelly . Also in Gaelic . BAIRNS speak i ' the field what they hear i ' the ha ' ; and , BAIRNS and fules speak at the cross what they ...
... BAIRNS ' mither bursts never . Because she will keep meat out of her own mouth to put it in theirs . -Kelly . Also in Gaelic . BAIRNS speak i ' the field what they hear i ' the ha ' ; and , BAIRNS and fules speak at the cross what they ...
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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
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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.