Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 26, 2025
I asked him what was the trouble, though indeed that was clear enough. 'The trouble is that I'm no sober. Last nicht my dochter Merran was waddit, and they danced till fower in the byre. Me and some ither chiels sat down to the drinkin', and here I am. Peety that I ever lookit on the wine when it was red! I agreed with him about bed. 'It's easy speakin', he moaned.
But when he commences to speak there is an almost painful absence of embellishment or emotional feeling; his language is severely practical and argumentative; but his logic is unimpeachable, and he can summon to his aid no end of hard and dry, albeit telling, facts "Chiels that winna ding." During the session of 1868, while he held the office of Lord Advocate, Mr.
"You got my telegram, I perceive, Cuthbert," Lord Vincent said to a large, red-haired Scot, in plain citizen's clothes, who seemed to be the porter. "Yes, me laird, though, as ye ken, the chiels at yon office at Banff hae to send it by a special messenger sae it took a long time to win here." "All right, Cuthbert, since you received it in time to be ready for us.
"It's hardly in a body's pow'r To keep at times frae being sour, To see how things are shar'd How best o' chiels are whiles in want, While coofs on countless thousands rant, And kenna how to wair't." Epistle to Davie.
They cam' frae far an' near to get a word wi' me. Na, there was nae rinnin' frae a bonny lass in thae days. Weel, there was three o' them; an' they cam' ower the hill to see the lasses, graund in their reed breeks slashed wi' yellow. An' what for no, they war his Majesty's troopers; an' though nae doot they had been on the wrang side o' the dyke, they were braw chiels for a' that!"
"I have been hunting west of here and we camped at the mouth of the creek. My comrades have gone northward and I was returning home by way of the creek. I did not know that the settlers here were in fear of Indians " "Ha! 'tis little we think o' them rid chiels. There's war nor they in yon forest-land, an' well we ken that." "Who do you mean?" demanded Enoch, now stepping within the open door.
He's no' bonny to look at.. I canna think what the factor's ettlin' at to let sic ill-faured chiels come about the toun." Their hostess was rapidly rising in Dickson's esteem. She sat very straight in her chair, eating with the careful gentility of a bird, and primming her thin lips after every mouthful of tea. "Wha bides in the Big House?" he asked. "Huntingtower is the name, isn't it?"
They're baith dour chiels, and haena muckle tae say, but Tammas lies a graund hert, and there's waur fouk in the Glen than Saunders. "A'm gettin' drowsy, an' a'll no be able tae follow ye sune, a' doot; wud ye read a bit tae me afore a' fa' ower?
Nor were these mimes limited to the urchin caste; for, in these days, wisdom had not got so conceited as to be ashamed of innocent mirth; and gaucy queens and stalwarth chiels exhibited their superiority only in acting a higher mask, and singing a loftier strain.
But enough, there are others, and those not few, even far less veniable; ye priers into family secrets fawning, false guests at the great man's open house, eagerly jotting down with paricidal pen the unguarded conversation of the hospitable board shame on your treason, on its wages, and its fame! ye countless gatherers and disposers of other men's stuff; chiels amang us takin' notes, an' faith, to prent 'em too, perpetually, without mitigation or remorse; ye men of paste and scissors, who so often falsely, feebly, faithlessly, and tastelessly are patching into a Harlequin whole the disjecta membra of some great hacked-up reputation; can such as ye are tell me what it is to write?
Word Of The Day
Others Looking