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A week syne here comes that bonnie young Allan Campbell that was aye sae fond o' your brither Davie." "Did he stay here wi' you?" "Ay, for sure he did. For three days he stayed; and he just daundered roun' the boats and the beach, and lookit sae forlorn, wanting Davie and the bonnie boat that had gane to the bottom, that folks were sorry for him.
Laith will the lassie be to weet her bonny shoon, but lang ere the play'll be ower she'll wat her hat aboon. A gust o' win' is skirlin' the noo, and as we luik ower the faem, the haar is risin', weetin' the green swaird wi' misty shoo'rs. Yestreen was a calm simmer gloamin', sae sweet an' bonnie that when the sun was sinkin' doon ower Pettybaw Sands we daundered ower the muir.
Boyd's success in making us see so plainly the moods and manners of the 'restin' ploughman' while he 'daundered' in his garden and 'raxed his limbs' is the more to be enjoyed and praised." PALL MALL GAZETTE. "Followers of the master will appreciate this beautiful book for its accurate interpretation of the poem as well as for its excellent drawing."
I have a flagon of French brown brandy you never tasted the equal of in any town you sacked in all Low Germanie." John Splendid looked at me from the corner of an eye as we came out again and daundered slowly down the town. "A queer one yon!" said he, as it were feeling his way with a rapier-point at my mind about his Marquis. "Do you tell me?"
Wha' kens what's afore them, or wha they may be behaudin' to afore the morrow's morn?" answered Jock stoutly. "But d'ye ken," said John Scott, the theological herd, who had quietly "daundered doon" as he said, from his cot-house up on the hill, where his bare-legged bairns played on the heather and short grass all day, to set his shoulder against the gable end for an hour with the rest.
It was dusk before the party broke up, and it was probably due to the kindly forethought of the minister that he and his guests strolled in little companies of two's and three's out into the caller air before their final parting. Their gait was solemn if a trifle uncertain as they slowly daundered up the road between the trees.
"Major Harper, who yesterday, for the fifth time, promised to take Missy to the Zoological Gardens to see the bears. He has remembered it at last." No, he had not remembered it; it would have been a very remarkable circumstance if he had; being a person so constantly full of engagements, for himself and others. The visitor was only his younger brother, who had often daundered in at Mrs.
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