ableeze

Updated: May 12, 2025

I had like to hae been cut short mysell, in the flower of my youth, as Scripture says; and that's the very thing that I compleen o'. Weel! in to the water we behoved a' to splash, heels ower head, sit or fa' ae horse driving on anither, as is the way of brute beasts, and riders that hae as little sense; the very bushes on the ither side were ableeze wi' the flashes of the Whig guns; and my horse had just taen the grund, when a blackavised westland carle I wad mind the face o' him a hundred years yet an ee like a wild falcon's, and a beard as broad as my shovel clapped the end o' his lang black gun within a quarter's length of my lug!

Sir Walter Scott - The Bride of Lammermoor