Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 25, 2025
"Fusie, Fusie, ye gowk! where are ye gone?" In a moment or two Fusie reappeared through the branches with a capful of water, and dashed it into Hughie's face, with the result that the lad opened his eyes, and after a gasp or two, sat up and looked about him. "Och, laddie, laddie, are ye no deid?" said Davie Scotch.
"I never saw you so well adorned," said I. "O Davie man, dinna be a pompous gowk!" said she, and was more than usually sharp to me the remainder of the day. About candlelight we came home from this excursion. For a good while I heard nothing further of Catriona my Miss Grant remaining quite impenetrable, and stopping my mouth with pleasantries.
It micht hae come til a far wysser heid nor mine, but seein' it did come to mine, it wad luik as gien the Lord micht hae pitten' t' there to the comfort an' consolation o' ane,'at, gien she be a gowk, is muckle the same as the Lord made her wi' 's ain bliss-it han'. Sae, quo' I, Is' jist submit the thing to the laird. He'll sune discern whether it be frae the Lord or mysel'!"
It was no more an essay than a twig is a tree, for the gowk had stuck in the middle of his second page. Yes, stuck is the right expression, as his chagrined teacher had to admit when the boy was cross-examined. He had not been "up to some of his tricks," he had stuck, and his explanations, as you will admit, merely emphasized his incapacity.
But Betsy Dan was engaged in terrorizing Jimmie, and failed to come in, till, after an awful pause, Thomas gave her a sharp nudge, and whispered audibly, "Give it to him, you gowk." Poor Betsy Dan, in sudden confusion, whipped her hand out from under her apron, and thrusting a box at the master, said hurriedly, "Here it is, sir."
Cosmo, who had been thinking much over what Aggie had said, and was not flattered that she should take him for the goose he did not know himself to be, could hardly wait for the evening to have another talk with her. "Aggie," he said, as he overtook her in a hollow not many yards from the verge of the farm, "I dinna like ye to think me sic a gowk!
For a moment he was terribly perplexed: he had been expecting to come on her feet, not her head: how could she have gone in head foremost, and not come back feet foremost? 'Eh, wuman, he said in a fear-struck whisper, 'it's awfu' to see ye come oot o' the yird like a muckle worm! 'Ye saw me gang in, Steenie, ye gowk! returned Kirsty, dismayed herself at sight of his solemn dread.
But the sport that came after and Rashleigh's shift o' turning the suspicion aff himself upon you, that he had nae grit favour to frae the beginning and then Miss Die, she maun hae us sweep up a' our spiders' webs again, and set you out o' the Justice's claws and then the frightened craven Morris, that was scared out o' his seven senses by seeing the real man when he was charging the innocent stranger and the gowk of a clerk and the drunken carle of a justice Ohon! ohon! mony a laugh that job's gien me and now, a' that I can do for the puir devil is to get some messes said for his soul."
But the sport that came after and Rashleigh's shift o' turning the suspicion aff himself upon you, that he had nae grit favour to frae the beginning and then Miss Die, she maun hae us sweep up a' our spiders' webs again, and set you out o' the Justice's claws and then the frightened craven Morris, that was scared out o' his seven senses by seeing the real man when he was charging the innocent stranger and the gowk of a clerk and the drunken carle of a justice Ohon! ohon! mony a laugh that job's gien me and now, a' that I can do for the puir devil is to get some messes said for his soul."
Anderson laughed, but his eyes glittered. Robert found Shargar busy over his Latin version. With a 'Weel, Shargar, he took his books and sat down. A few moments after, Shargar lifted his head, stared a while at Robert, and then said, 'Duv you railly think it, Robert? 'Think what? What are ye haverin' at, ye gowk? 'Duv ye think 'at I ever could grow intil a gentleman? 'Dr.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking