Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of ScotlandA. Gardner, 1896 - 434 páginas |
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... wife when she stuck her graip in the midden . A jocular beginning of work which if it went no further would be long enough ere it were finished .-- Hislop . Compare , Weel saipet is hauf shaven . A BELLENDAINE . The slogan of the Scotts ...
... wife when she stuck her graip in the midden . A jocular beginning of work which if it went no further would be long enough ere it were finished .-- Hislop . Compare , Weel saipet is hauf shaven . A BELLENDAINE . The slogan of the Scotts ...
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... wife . In Scotland the wives of the publicans used to brew the ale consumed in the taverns , and as the occupation would seem to have thriven with them , " a brewster wife " became a description for any female who was enormously fat . A ...
... wife . In Scotland the wives of the publicans used to brew the ale consumed in the taverns , and as the occupation would seem to have thriven with them , " a brewster wife " became a description for any female who was enormously fat . A ...
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... wife , when she turned her sark after a month's wear . A CLIP O ' Johnnie Hastie's shears . Johnnie Hastie was a tailor in Crail , Fifeshire , a real cankered body , but with about an equal quantity of humour or malevolent wit . When ...
... wife , when she turned her sark after a month's wear . A CLIP O ' Johnnie Hastie's shears . Johnnie Hastie was a tailor in Crail , Fifeshire , a real cankered body , but with about an equal quantity of humour or malevolent wit . When ...
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... wife and a crowing hen Will call the old gentleman out of his den.-E. Whistling of women , and crowing of hens , two forbidden things.- Gaelic . The house doth every day more wretched grow , Where the hen louder than the cock doth crow ...
... wife and a crowing hen Will call the old gentleman out of his den.-E. Whistling of women , and crowing of hens , two forbidden things.- Gaelic . The house doth every day more wretched grow , Where the hen louder than the cock doth crow ...
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... wife . A DISH O ' married love right soon grows cauld , And dozens doun ( settles doun ) to nane as folks A DOG in a deer's den . grow auld . --Ramsay . Spoken when a widow or widower marries a person inferior to their former match ...
... wife . A DISH O ' married love right soon grows cauld , And dozens doun ( settles doun ) to nane as folks A DOG in a deer's den . grow auld . --Ramsay . Spoken when a widow or widower marries a person inferior to their former match ...
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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 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 waur Waverley weel wife winna YE hae ye'll YE'RE
Pasajes populares
Página 90 - He answered and said unto them, "When it is evening ye say, 'It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.
Página 352 - There's some say that we wan, some say that they wan, Some say that nane wan at a', man : But one thing I'm sure, that at Sheriffmuir A battle there was, which I saw, man. And we ran, and they ran, and they ran, and we ran, And we ran, and they ran awa, man.
Página 362 - They that wash on Monday, Have all the week to dry; They that wash on Tuesday, Are not so much awry ; They that wash on Wednesday, Are not so much to blame; They that wash on Thursday, Wash for shame ; They that wash on Friday, Wash in need ; And they that wash on Saturday, O!
Página 204 - 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 322 - 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 189 - 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 242 - March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, A bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom.
Página 176 - 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 300 - 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 7 - 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.