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"We kenned more about Ticonderoga than you think, Comee. Didn't every mother's son in the Black Watch know that our major, Duncan Campbell, would meet his death there? He had his warning years ago." "A wise man don't do anything great if he tells a soldier that he's likely to be killed some time.
The Lady of Pentlands and her bairns are going to foreign parts, where they needn't think shame to be kenned as puir folk. There will be little done in the Pentlands gardens this while, I doubt. There's Broyra, but that is a good five miles away: you could never go there and come back at night." "But surely there's something that I can do?" said Lilias, entreatingly.
"Greeting!" exclaimed the old lady, drawing nearer, "I ken it by the sound of your voice; greeting eenow! Are ye no weel, Miss Ellen? What vexes my bairn? Oh, but your father would be vexed an he kenned it!" "Never mind, Mrs. Allen," said Ellen; "I shall get over it directly; don't say anything about it."
"I kenned ane o' the name lang syne 'at was lost sicht o'." "There's Gibbies here an' Gibbies there," remarked Janet, probing her. "Weel I wat!" she answered peevishly, for she had had whisky enough only to make her cross, and turned away, muttering however in an undertone, but not too low for Janet to hear, "but there's nae mony wee Sir Gibbies, or the warl' wadna be sae dooms like hell."
I kenned that they shouted, all thae gay shadows! I saw the pipers' cheeks fill with wind, and the bags of the pipes fill. Then ane drew on a fine silken rope, and up the pole there went a braw silken banner, and it sailed out in the wind. And there was mair shouting and brandishing. But what think ye might next befall?
Robin was sitting on the side o' the West Lowmond, ae still gloomy night in September, when he saw a bridal o' corbie craws coming east the lift, just on the edge o' the gloaming. The moment that Robin saw them, he kenned, by their movements, that they were craws o' some ither warld than this; so he signed himself, and crap into the middle o' his bourock.
I speered o' the hussies in the kitchen whether they kenned what was amiss wi' the family, but the cook she answered me back that it wasna for her tae inquire into the affairs o' her superiors, and that it was naething to her as long as she did her work and had her wages.
She cam forward to me, an', poor thing, she kissed my cheek, and says she, 'Dinna distress yoursel', David, dear it cannot be helped now let us pray that this may be a lesson for the future. I flung my arm round her neck I couldna speak; but at last I said, 'Oh Jeannie, it will be a lesson, and your affection will be a lesson! Some o' your book-learned folk wad ca' this conduct philosophy in Jeannie; but I, wha kenned every thought in her heart, was aware that it proceeded from her resignation as a true Christian, and her affection as a dutiful wife.
'Good sister, here are some early pilgrims to the shrine of St. Scolastique, she began. 'To the other gate, said the portress hastily. Margaret's face twinkled with fun. 'I wad fain take a turn with the beggar crew, she said to her sisters in Scotch; 'but it might cause too great an outcry if I were kenned. Commend me to the Mere St.
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