boeny

Updated: May 2, 2025

Lord Ipsden ran hastily over the page, closed the book, and said, "Here is the story. "Five hundred years ago " "Listen, Jean," said Christie; "we're gaun to get a boeny story. 'Five hundre' years ago," added she, with interest and awe. "Was a great battle," resumed the narrator, in cheerful tones, as one larking with history, "between a king of England and his rebels.

Charles Reade - Christie Johnstone

"The week," cried Ede, "nonsense thirty shillings a day of course. We sell work for gold, sir, and we give gold for it; look here!" and he suddenly bared a sturdy brown arm, and, smacking it, cried, "That is dirt where you come from, but it is gold here." "Ye're a fine lad," said the Scot, smoothly, "and ye've a boeny aerm," added he, looking down at it. "I'se no deny that.

Charles Reade - It Is Never Too Late to Mend