brulzie

Updated: April 30, 2025

Nevertheless, even these fugitive attempts, from the success which they have had, and the noise they are making, serve to show the truth of the old proverb "When house and land are gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent." On the whole, I am glad of this brulzie, as far as I am concerned; people will not dare talk of me as an object of pity no more "poor-manning."

Sir Walter Scott - The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford

Waverley looks clean- made and deliver, and like a proper lad o' his quarters, that will not cry barley in a brulzie. And, indeed, he's gleg aneuch at the broadsword and target. I hae played wi' him mysell at Glennaquoich, and sae has Vich lan Vohr, often of a Sunday afternoon.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Complete

Waverley looks clean-made and DELIVER, and like a proper lad of his quarters, that will not cry barley in a brulzie, And, indeed, he's gleg aneuch at the broadsword and target, I hae played wi' him mysell at Glennaquoich, and sae has Vich Ian Vohr, often of a Sunday afternoon,

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since

The horses of Ogilvie who himself fell in the brulzie chased the Lowlanders along the side of Loch Linnhe, and so few of the flying had the tartan that we had no great interest in them, till we saw six men with their plaid-ing cast run unobserved up the plain, wade waist-deep through the Nevis, and come somewhat in our direction.

Neil Munro - John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

Waverley looks clean- made and deliver, and like a proper lad o' his quarters, that will not cry barley in a brulzie. And, indeed, he's gleg aneuch at the broadsword and target. I hae played wi' him mysell at Glennaquoich, and sae has Vich lan Vohr, often of a Sunday afternoon.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Volume 2

Waverley looks clean-made and deliver, and like a proper lad o' his quarters, that will not cry barley in a brulzie. And, indeed, he's gleg aneuch at the broadsword and target. I hae played wi' him mysell at Glennaquoich, and sae has Vich lan Vohr, often of a Sunday afternoon.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley

"It wasn't for exercise, as you might guess at anyrate. The fact is, we were within five minutes of getting a wheen Stewart dirks in our doublets, and if there was no brulzie on foot we were even yet as good as lost on Brae Lochaber." "How does that happen?" I asked. "They seemed to let us away generously enough and with no great ill-will." "Just so!

Neil Munro - John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn