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Mary's ay, and their mothers that bore them ay, she is a sweet and a lovely creature as ever tied snood over brown hair ay, and then, though her uncle keeps her out of her ain for the present time, yet it is to be thought the gray-goose shaft will find a hole in his coat of proof, as, God help us! it has done in many a better man's And, moreover, if they should stand on their pedigree and gentle race, Edward might say to them, that is, to her gentle kith and kin, 'whilk o' ye was her best friend, when she came down the glen to Glendearg in a misty evening, on a beast mair like a cuddie than aught else? And if they tax him with churl's blood, Edward might say, that, forby the old proverb, how
Some say it came from the gray color of the parchment, some give other incredible origins; the last guess I have heard is, that the name merely denotes antiquity; the witty name in Norway for a man growing old having been, in those times, that he was now "becoming a gray-goose." The Norway one is perhaps of date about 1037, the other of about 1118; peace be with them both!
The English stood their ground while line after line of the Scots hurled themselves against them, only to be struck down by the gray-goose shafts. At last the attack degenerated into a complete rout, and the English made good their victory by an indiscriminate massacre.
Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right his shaft he set, The gray-goose wing that was thereon In his heart-blood was wet. This fight did last from break of day Till setting of the sun; For when they rung the ev'ning bell The battle scarce was done.
Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right his Shaft he set, The Gray-goose Wing that was thereon In his Heart-Blood was wet. This Fight did last from Break of Day Till setting of the Sun; For when they rung the Evening Bell The Battle scarce was done.
But mark the end o' it, Tibb; we were married, and the gray-goose wing was the death o' him after a'!" "As it has been of ower mony brave men," said Tibb; "I wish there wasna sic a bird as a goose in the wide warld, forby the clecking that we hae at the burn-side."
They were calling each other mother and daughter then? Yes. The sacred fire of sorrow was fast burning out all Ayacanora's fallen savageness; and, like a Phoenix, the true woman was rising from those ashes, fair, noble, and all-enduring, as God had made her. "Oh, where be these gay Spaniards, Which make so great a boast O? Oh, they shall eat the gray-goose feather, And we shall eat the roast O!"
Let us waste no time in looking foolish; but pick up the gray-goose shaft that lies so innocently at our feet among the daisies; and it's odds but the second plants it i' the clout. The lover, the hero of the piece, upon whose requited passion and splendid settlements the curtain goes down, is a role not always safely to be confided to the genius and discretion of a single performer.
There could not be a better statement of the methods which she employed than Mr Rudyard Kipling's: "Axe and torch and tumult, steel and gray-goose wing, Wrung it, inch and ell, and all, slowly from the King." It is, of course, a pity that the liberty thus established was better fitted for the home market than for export.
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