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But noo, as 'tis, I'm awa' hame to the whusky boatle, an' the sin o' 't, gien there be ony in sic a nicht o' cauld an' fog, 'ill jist lie at your door." "You shall have a plate of soup, and welcome, Mistress Croale!" said the minister, in a rather stagey tone of hospitality " Jane, take Mistress Croale to the kitchen with you, and " "The deil's tail i' yer soup!
There was nothing remarkable in the spectacle of a young lady who wanted a glass of spring-water, or of a waiter who was getting it for her. "Do you remember me at the inn on the night of the storm?" asked Blanche. Mr. "I'm no' saying I canna remember ye, miss. Whar's the man would mak' sic an answer as that to a bonny young leddy like you?"
The honour'd gods Keep Rome in safety, and the CHAIRS of JUSTICE Supplied with WORTHY MEN! plant LOVE among us. Throng OUR LARGE TEMPLES with the shows of PEACE, And not our STREETS with WAR. First Sen. Men. A NOBLE wish. Re-enter AEdile with Citizens. Sic. Draw near, ye people. Cor. First hear me speak. AEdile. List to your tribunes. Audience: Peace, I say. Both Tri. Well, say, Peace, ho. Cor.
Now settled in London. I had been five years absent from London. sic fata ferebant. Æneid, ii. 34. It is, indeed, very characteristical of its authour, beginning with a maxim, and proceeding to illustrate. 'All excellence has a right to be recorded.
There are four lots o' cattle in the market, and I might hae cleared four hundred pounds, cent. per cent., by them. 'Losh me! Walter, then, says I, 'why didna ye do it? How did ye let sic a bargain slip through your fingers? 'Woman, said he, 'I dinna ken; but a man that is to be married within eight and forty hours is excusable.
She prophesied a hundred times, 'that young Mr. Harry would be the pride o' the family, and there hadna been sic a sprout frae the auld aik since the death of Arthur Mac-Dingawaie, that was killed in the battle o' the Bloody Bay; as for the present stick, it was good for nothing but fire-wood. On one occasion, when the child was ill, she lay all night below the window, chanting a rhyme which she believed sovereign as a febrifuge, and could neither be prevailed upon to enter the house nor to leave the station she had chosen till she was informed that the crisis was over.
The interjections of "Poor fellow," "Poor George," which escaped in whispers, and betwixt sighs, were the only sounds with which she interrupted the story. When it was finished she made a long pause. "And this was his advice?" were the first words she uttered. "Just sic as I hae tell'd ye," replied her sister. "And he wanted you to say something to yon folks, that wad save my young life?"
"The herrin 's like the fowk 'at cairries the mate an' the pooder an' sic like for them 'at does the fechtin'. The hert o' the leevin' man's the place whaur the battle's foucht, an' it's aye gaein' on an' on there atween God an' Sawtan; an' the fish they haud fowk up till 't." "Do you mean that the herrings help you to fight for God?" said Lady Florimel with a superior smile.
"A've hed the same masel in sic circumstances; they come on sudden," said Jamie. "A' wager there 'ill be a new bit in the laist prayer the day, an' somethin' worth hearin'." And the fathers went into kirk in great expectation.
It wad be fair sinfu' no' ta tak a drop at sic a time as this. The minister himsel' wad taste, gin an auld schulemate came back after forty year. Sae wad the Apostle Paul the stomach's sake was naethin' compared wi' this. What'll ye hae, Andra?" "Let this be mine, Gavin," answered Andrew, reaching for his pocketbook.