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Gang for the brandy to your twa John Gourla's. We're a pair for a woman to be proud of!" He gazed after his wife as she tottered to the pantry. "Your skirt's on the gape, auld wife," he sang; "your skirt's on the gape; as use-u-al," he drawled; "as use-u-al. It was always like that; and it always scunnered me, for I aye liked things tidy though I never got them.
Didna I see thee, Elleen, clavering with that muckle Archduke that nane can talk with? 'Ay, said Eleanor. 'He is come here a-courting Madame Yolande, with his father's goodwill, for Alsace and Tyrol be his, mountains that might be in our ain Hielands, they tell me. 'Methougnt, said Eleanor, 'she scunnered from him, as Jeanie does at shall I say whom? 'And reason gude, said Margaret.
"He wes that carefu' o' himsel an' lazy that if it hedna been for the siller, a've often thocht, Milton, he wud never hae dune a handstroke o' wark in the Glen. "What scunnered me wes the wy the bairns were ta'en in wi' him.
I spoke to him after the sermon, and I says, just to see if he was properly humbled, 'Ay, Tammas, I says, 'them that discourse was preached against, winna think themselves seven feet men for a while again. 'Ay, Birse, he answers, 'and glad I am to hear you admit it, for he had you in his eye. I was fair scunnered at Tammas the day." "Mr.
They first gie the boys three days' free warren among the figs and the sugar-candy, and they get scunnered wi' sweets after that. Noo, then, my lad, ye've just been reading four books in three days and here's a fifth. Ye'll no open this again." "Oh!" I cried, piteously enough, "just let me finish what I am reading. I'm in the middle of such a wonderful account of the Hornitos of Jurullo."
"And I presume Judge Merle didn't mean to charge for the porridge, or hominy, or whatever it was," said Deacon Slowcome. "And what for no'?" demanded Janet, turning on him sharply. "I'm sure we got far more good and pleasure from it than ever we got o' your bloody fore-quarter of beef, that near scunnered the bairns ere we were done with it. Things should stand on your papers at their true value."
For there was something about the taste of the town milk that scunnered us Freddie especially being more delicately stomached than I. Here, too, was a red-cheeked serving maid who provoked us but more especially poor Fred, who asked nothing better than that the wench should let him alone. But I cared not so greatly though, of course, she was nothing to me.
"He wes that carefu' o' himsel an' lazy that if it hedna been for the siller, a've often thocht, Milton, he wud never hae dune a handstroke o' wark in the Glen. "What scunnered me wes the wy the bairns were ta'en in wi' him.
"He wes that carefu' o' himsel an' lazy that if it hedna been for the siller, a've often thocht, Milton, he wud never hae dune a handstroke o' wark in the Glen. "What scunnered me wes the wy the bairns were ta'en in wi' him.
"Troth, sur, ye wouldn't have said that if you'd seen it whin we first came to it. Of all the dirty places I iver saw! I belave an Irish pig would have scunnered at it, an' held his nose till he got out. It's very well for England, but we was used to cleaner places in the owld country. Hows'iver we've got it made respictable now, and we're not hard to plaze." This was a crushing reply.
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