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He must be a man of branes and gumpshun & a good provider a man who will luv you strong and long a man who will luv you jest as much in your old age, when your voice is cracked like an old tea kittle & you can't get 1 of your notes discounted at 50 per sent a month, as he will now, when you are young & charmin & full of music, sunshine & fun. Don't marry a snob, Maria.
"Ef it be you uns as takes the aigs," she murmured thoughtfully, "a kittle o' bilin' water to yer backs ain't none too bad fer ye! But ef it be only my old herrin'-tub ye're after, then bilin' water's too ha'sh!" In the end, the weapon she decided upon was the big tin pepper-pot, well loaded. Through the twilight, while the yard was all in shadow, Mrs.
By careful management and close clipping of withered flowers, a bed of these pinks may be had in bloom from June until December, the first flowers coming from the autumn-sown plants, which may be replaced in August by those sown in the seed bed in late May, which by this time will be well budded. "August is a kittle time for transplanting border things," I hear you say.
"A month or two ago, I would have agreed with ye; but general investors are kittle folk, and the applications for the new stock are no numerous." "Howitson promised to subscribe largely; and Bendle pledged himself to take a considerable block." "I'm no denying it. But we have no been favored with their formal applications yet."
"I did not know ye were in my country, sir," says Robin. "It sticks in my mind that I am in the country of my friends the Maclarens," says Alan. "That's a kittle point," returned the other. "There may be two words to say to that. But I think I will have heard that you are a man of your sword?" "Unless ye were born deaf, Mr. Macgregor, ye will have heard a good deal more than that," says Alan.
What it is to hev the gift o' gob and gumption!" "Shaf! It's kittle shootin' at crows and clergy," replied Matthew. The breakfast being over, the benches were turned towards the big peat fire that glowed red on the hearth and warmed the large kitchen on this wintry day. The ale jars were refilled, pipes and tobacco were brought in, and the weaver relinquished his office of potman to his daughter.
I had nae sense at all, to be lying beside the horse, and him a kittle brute too; but I'll aye be mindin' ye coorieing ower me, and greetin' for a' that, when the men o' the Seagull were feart tae venture into the stall, being sailors and strange wi' horse."
HORNING, charge of, a summons to pay a debt, on pain of being pronounced a rebel, to the sound of a horn. HOWE, a hollow. HOULERYING AND POULERYING, hustling and pulling. HURLEY-HOUSE, a brokendown manor house. ILK, same; of that ilk, of the same name or place. ILKA, each, every. INTROMIT, meddle with. KEN, know. KITTLE, tickle, ticklish. KNOBBLER, a male deer in its second year.
"'Wud ye rather haave a boilin' kittle than love if ye had t' choose? "'Och, no, not at all, ye know rightly I wudn't. "'Forby, Jamie, we've given Antrim more'n such men as Lord Massarene. "'What's that? says I. "'A maan that loves th' poorest craithers on earth an' serves thim. "She had a gey good sleep afther that." "'Jamie, says she whin she awoke, 'was I ravin'?
"At all events it isn't tainted money like the check I got for that horrible Reliable Baking Powder story. I spent IT usefully for clothes and hated them every time I put them on." "Think of having a real live author at Patty's Place," said Priscilla. "It's a great responsibility," said Aunt Jamesina solemnly. "Indeed it is," agreed Pris with equal solemnity. "Authors are kittle cattle.
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