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'I have a letter from 'So I have heard. 'Would you like to hear it? 'No. 'Can you not abide him? 'I cauna thole him. 'Is he a black? 'He is all that. Well, Vailima was the one spot on earth I had any great craving to visit, but I think she always knew I would never leave her. Sometime, she said, she should like me to go, but not until she was laid away.
Pitscottie tells us in respect to a projected visit to England, vaguely thought of and planned several years before this time, that "the wicked bishops of Scotland would not thole" a meeting between James and Henry.
"I could never thole the name o' them. Sanders in his young days hankered after joining them, and so he would, if it hadna been for the fechting. Ay, and now they've ta'en him awa to the gaol, and sworn lies about him. Dinna put any faith in sojers, lassie." "I was told," Babbie went on, "that the minister's wife was rather like me."
But was there ever another you liked far better than yourself, that you had to see in deadly peril?" "No. I'll be honest with you, there never was. I grant you that's the hardest thing to thole. But you'll keep a stiff lip even to that, seeing you are the braver of the two of us." At that I cried out in expostulation, but Ringan was firm. "Ay, the braver by far, and I'll say it again.
The fisherman baited his hook with a piece from the belly of a scarus and lowered it down out of sight, then he belayed the line to a thole pin, and, sitting in the bottom of the boat, hung his head over the side and gazed deep down into the water. Sometimes there was nothing to see but just the deep blue of the water.
I simply cannot thole the look. And he knows it too. The thing'll gang smash at the outset I'm talling ye, now it'll go smash at the outset if it's left to me. And than, ye see, you have a better way of approaching folk!" "Ith that tho?" said the Deacon dryly. He shot a suspicious glance to see if the Provost was guying him.
Well, Belle was ta'en to the old room where the mistress, my uncle's wife, lay abed her they ca'ed the Leddy, a fine strapping woman, with kindly hands to man and beast and a wheedling, coaxing way with her, though she could be cold and haughty at times, for she came of fighting stock, and could not thole clavering and fussing, and I think she would not hasten her stately step to be in time for the Last Judgment, for the pride of her.
As if the breath o' an angry woman could make Him turn the keys that nane turn but Him. And if you want to ken whar I am going, I may as weel tell you now, as the morn. I am going to my brither Davie, for I cannot thole the bad tongue and the bad heart o' you, anither day." "Hear to the wicked lass! My bad tongue! My bad heart! I sall scream oot at sich words "
He attends none of them, for he says "he canna thole it," but when by chance a minister of the kirk comes his way, then you may see him, with well-saved Sabbath suit, pressing anxiously forward to catch the droppings of the sanctuary: snows or streams offering no obstacle to his zeal.
She couldn't thole any one next or near her but myself ... and so I got fond of her, for a body has to like people that depends on them. Will your wife be a fair lady or a dark lady, Master Henry?" He realised that she wished him to describe Mary to her. "She's dark," he said. "Not at all like her brother!" "Ay, he was the big, fair man that was a credit to a woman to have!"
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