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ALANE, alone. AN, if. ANE, one. ARRAY, annoy, trouble. AULD, old. AWEEL, well. AYE, always. BAILIE, a city magistrate in Scotland. BAN, curse. BAWTY, sly, cunning. BAXTER, a baker. BEES, in the, stupefied, bewildered. BELIVE, belyve, by and by. BEN, in, inside. BENT, an open field. BHAIRD, a bard. BLACK-FISHING, fishing by torchlight poaching. BLINKED, glanced. BLUDE, braid, blood.
Sit down, sirs, they'll be in belyve;" and she dismissed her spindle from her hand to twirl upon the floor, and soon seemed exclusively occupied in regulating its motion, as unconscious of the presence of the strangers as she appeared indifferent to their rank or business there. "I wish," said Oldbuck, "she would resume that canticle, or legendary fragment.
"Great distress, I fear, Edie," answered Miss Wardour; "but I am surprised it is already so public." "Public! Sweepclean, the messenger, will be there the day wi' a' his tackle. I ken it frae ane o' his concurrents, as they ca' them, that's warned to meet him; and they'll be about their wark belyve; whare they clip, there needs nae kame they shear close eneugh."
Grant on the Highland Superstitions, vol. ii. p. 260, for this fine translation from the Gaelic. "They're a' out," she said, as they entered; "but an ye will sit a blink, somebody will be in. If ye hae business wi' my gude-daughter, or my son, they'll be in belyve, I never speak on business mysell.
Belyve,* the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun'; Some ca' the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin A cannie * errand to a neebor town: Their eldest hope, their Jenny, woman grown, In youthfu' bloom, love sparkling in her e'e Comes hame, perhaps, to show a braw new gown, Or deposite her sair-won penny-fee, To help her parents dear, if they in hardship be.
I guessed in this that he had a vista in view of the tacks and leases that were belyve to fall in, and I said "Nothing can be more reasonable, Mr M'Lucre; for the office of dean of guild must be a very fashious one, to folks like me, no skilled in its particularities; and I'm sure I'll be right glad and willing to give it up, when we hae got our present turn served.
The lady had lapsed into wrath, that burned a white heat on her wrinkled brow, and was doubly formidable because expressed by no hasty word or gesture. "Leave my presence, and learn your duty, belyve, for before the turn of the moon Staneholme's wife ye sall be." Do not think that Nelly Carnegie was beaten, because she uttered no further remonstrance.
Grant on the Highland Superstitions, vol. ii. p. 260, for this fine translation from the Gaelic. "They're a' out," she said, as they entered; "but an ye will sit a blink, somebody will be in. If ye hae business wi' my gude-daughter, or my son, they'll be in belyve, I never speak on business mysell.
"Great distress, I fear, Edie," answered Miss Wardour; "but I am surprised it is already so public." "Public! Sweepclean, the messenger, will be there the day wi' a' his tackle. I ken it frae ane o' his concurrents, as they ca' them, that's warned to meet him; and they'll be about their wark belyve; whare they clip, there needs nae kame they shear close eneugh."
Sit down, sirs, they'll be in belyve;" and she dismissed her spindle from her hand to twirl upon the floor, and soon seemed exclusively occupied in regulating its motion, as unconscious of the presence of the strangers as she appeared indifferent to their rank or business there. "I wish," said Oldbuck, "she would resume that canticle, or legendary fragment.
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