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He decanted about one-half of a quart bottle of claret into a wooden quaigh or bicker, and took it off at a draught. "You did your good wine injustice, my friend; it's better than your brandy, though that's good too. Will you pledge me to the king's health?" "With pleasure," said Milnwood, "in ale, but I never drink claret, and keep only a very little for some honoured friends."
"It may be a dead loss," he observed; "and, conscience! whate'er ane o' your Lombard Street goldsmiths may say to it, it's a snell ane in the Saut-Market* o' Glasgow. It will be a heavy deficit a staff out o' my bicker, I trow. But what then?
Beyond the battlements to the east, the evening star, which the Roman poet called Noctifer, began to bicker and brighten in the serene sky, and the last vestige of the sun's afterglow had now faded from the west. It was already as dark as a summer midnight. Small and continuous sounds came floating up from the city beyond.
'I should never have thought of going near that edge, said I to myself; 'however, as you have done it, why should not I? And I should like to know who you are. So I commenced the descent of the rock, but with great care, for I had as yet never been in a situation so dangerous; a slight moisture exuded from the palms of my hands, my nerves were tingling, and my brain was somewhat dizzy and now I had arrived within a few yards of the figure, and had recognised it: it was the wild drummer who had turned the tide of battle in the bicker on the Castle Brae.
The Nor Loch Gestures wild The bicker New Town champion Wild-looking figure Headlong. It was not long before we found ourselves at Edinburgh, or rather in the Castle, into which the regiment marched with drums beating, colours flying, and a long train of baggage-waggons behind. The Castle was, as I suppose it is now, a garrison for soldiers.
Were men intended, then, to congregate in few places, to squabble and to bicker and breed the discontents that led to injustice, hatred, and war? What a mystery it all was! But Nature was neither false nor little, however cruel she might be. Once again Carley fell under the fury of her ordeal.
It won't do you no good to bicker about it neither you go in there an' tell your audience to get their money back, an' go on home." Henry picked up his cigarette. He had no craving to smoke, but he didn't want Anna to see that his lips were trembling. "Well," he said, "there goes the old ball-game.
They may bicker and squabble among themselves, and they frequently do, but in their outward relations with the world they act as one individual, and the enemy of one is the enemy of all; for the pride of race and name is very great.
Richard and Stephen drew their swords, but Ralph cried out: "Come away, friends, tarry not to bicker with these fools, who are afraid of they know not what: it is but lying under the naked heaven to-night instead of under the rafters, but we have all lodged thus a many times: and we shall be nigher to our journey's end to-morrow when we wake up."
In our modern languages it is termed villainy, as being proper for rustic boors, or men of coarsest education and employment; who, having their minds debased by being conversant in meanest affairs, do vent their sorry passions, and bicker about their petty concernments, in such strains; who also, being not capable of a fair reputation, or sensible of disgrace to themselves, do little value the credit of others, or care for aspersing it.
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