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They did vse to record the noble exploits of the ancient capteins, and to drawe the pedegrées and genealogies of such as were liuing. They would frame pleasant dities and songs, learne the same by heart, and sing them to instruments at solemne feasts and assemblies of noble men and gentlemen. Of these Bards Lucane saith, Britan. cent. 2. John Prise defen hist. Brit. Caius de ant. Cant. lib. 1.
"Weel, that's a vertue. The Saviour himsel' garred them gaither up the fragments." "Nae doobt. But I'm feared Bruce wad hae coontit the waste by hoo mony o' the baskets gaed by his door. I'm surprised at ye, Mr Crann, tryin' to defen' sic a meeserable crater, jist 'cause he gangs to your kirk." "Weel, he is a meeserable crater, and I canna bide him.
"We'll defen', we'll defen'," he said, with great confidence of manner, "and gie them a revised condescendence for't that they'll fin gayan teuch to chow. But we maun obey the ceetation, in the first place, to prevent decreet in absence, whilk wad gie the pursuer, in this case, everything his ain way." "Defen'!" exclaimed Mrs.
We will listen: "Feller coots and liquidarians, behold before ye a real descendant uv Cain and Abel. Ye'll reckolect, ef ye've ever bin ter camp-meetin', that Abel got knocked out o' time by his cuzzin Cain, an becawse Abel war misproperly named, and warn't able when the crysis arriv ter defen' himsel' in an able manner.
Not to lift a hand, even to defend yourself!" said the marquis, vexed both with Malcolm and with himself. "Because I saw I was i' the wrang, my. lord. The quarrel was o' my ain makin': I hed no richt to lowse my temper an' be impident. Sae I didna daur defen' mysel'. An' I beg yer lordship's pardon. Faith! I s' gar ony man ken a differ there!"
We're gaun to get it ruch an roun', noo, Mirran. I was dootin this. But we'll defen', we'll defen'," added Thomas, who was, or, we rather suspect, imagined himself to be, a bit of a lawyer, ever since the affair of the duck-dub, during which he had picked up some law terms, but without any accompanying knowledge whatever of their import or applicability.
Er the fact is, Peter, you will see, when you begin copying, I had come to a matter a a matter of some moment in my life. Every life contains such moments, Peter. I had meant to write something in the nature of a defen an explanation, Peter. But after you left the library last night it suddenly occurred to me just to give each fact as it took place, quite frankly.
"Jack," said the old man hotly "a home-made Yankee is a 'bomination to the Lord. He's a twin brother to the Copperhead up north." "My little brother they might have spared him," went on the outlaw "they might have spared him. He tried to defen' his mother an' sisters an' they shot him down in col' blood." "'Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord," replied the old man sadly.
'Theh was a soun' of wibalwy by night, W'en 'Ush-'ark! A deep saun' stwike' ? Thaz by Lawd By'on. Yesseh. Well" The Creole lifted his right hand energetically, laid its inner edge against the brass buttons of his képi, and then waved it gracefully abroad: "Au 'evoi', Mistoo Itchlin. I leave you to defen' the city."
A semi-quiet followed and the cracked voice rose defiantly: "That's who I am! I'm the Gentleman from Wixinockee an' I stan' here to defen' the principles of the Democratic party!" The Democrats responded with violent hootings, supplemented by cheers of approval from the Republicans. The high voice out-shrieked them all: "Once a Democrat, always a Democrat!
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