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Speak out, ye Saxon dogs what bid ye for your worthless lives? How say you, you of Rotherwood?" "Not a doit I," answered poor Wamba "and for hanging up by the feet, my brain has been topsy-turvy, they say, ever since the biggin was bound first round my head; so turning me upside down may peradventure restore it again." "Saint Genevieve!" said Front-de-Boeuf, "what have we got here?"
Put the powder into a coffee biggin, press it down closely, and pour over a little water sufficient to moisten it, and then add the remainder by degrees; the water must be perfectly boiling all the time; let it run quite through before the top of the percolator is taken off, it must be served with an equal quantity of boiling milk.
The Shepherd assented, for he had seen the head of Geordy alike in the hut and the hall; beaming the same by the mirrored fire-light of the manorial villa, and "by the peat-lowe frae the ingle o' the auld clay biggin."
Winton was in the thick of the pick-and-shovel melee, urging it on, when Biggin ran up. "Hi!" he shouted. "Fixin' to take another play-day in Carbonate? Lookee down yonder!" Winton looked and became alive to the possibilities in the turning of a leaf. "Guns!" he yelled; and at the word of command the tools were flung aside, and the track force, over two hundred strong, became an army.
I made no reply. "I should beg your pardon, but I will not. I am going away to-morrow. Give me your hand, and say farewell." "Farewell then. Is Alice up? I see a light moving in her chamber." "If you do, she is not waiting for me." "I have been making coffee for you," she said, as soon as we entered, "in my French biggin. I have packed your valise too, Charles, and have ordered your breakfast.
Shut down the lid, place the pot near the fire, and the coffee will be ready as soon as it has all drained through the coarse and fine strainers into the receiver below the spout. Scald your china or silver pot, and pour the coffee into it. But it is best to have a biggin in the form of an urn, in which the coffee can both be made and brought to table.
He had, to be sure, a whole literature of popular songs and ballads behind him, and his immediate models were Allan Ramsay and Robert Ferguson; but these remained provincial, while Burns became universal. He was born in Ayrshire, on the banks of "bonny Doon," in a clay biggin not far from "Alloway's auld haunted kirk," the scene of the witch dance in Tam O'Shanter.
"Well," replied Edward, after a pause, "if the king does come over, there will be some work cut out for some of us, I expect. Your news has put me in a fever," continued Edward, taking up the biggin and drinking a large draught of beer. "I thought it would," replied Oswald; "but until the time comes, the more quiet you keep the better."
You see! de fust t'ing dey gwine ass you when you come at Gran' Point' 'Is Mistoo Wallis biggin to grind? Well, seh, like I tell you, yeh de sugah-house, an' dah de road. Dat road fetch you at Gran' Point'." An hour later the stranger, quite alone, had left behind him the broad smooth road, between rustling walls of sugar-cane, that had brought him through Belle Alliance plantation.
We a' ken what a lot o' eeses the bonny green-and-reid-mottlet marble can be put til; but it wadna do weel for biggin hooses, specially gien there war mony streaks o' saipstane intil 't. Still it's no 'at the saipstane itsel's o' nae eese, for ye ken there's a heap o' eeses it can be put til.
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