Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 22, 2025
The whole story had spread like wildfire; they expostulated with her, they told her now was the time to show she had a heart, and bless the young people. She rewarded them with a valuable precept. "Mind your own business!" said she. "Hech! y' are a dour wife!" cried Newhaven. The dour wife bent her eyes on the ground.
Flora is grave and anxious I think, a little frightened, both for herself and Angus. Mr Keith takes the affair very seriously; that I can see, though he does not say much. We are to start, if possible, on Friday, and sleep at Hawick the first night. "Hech, Sirs!" was Helen's comment, when she heard it. "My puir bairns, may the Lord be wi' ye! It's ill setting forth of a Friday."
I meant to tell you a lie, and I've told you the truth." "Laddie," said Christie, half admiringly, half reproachfully, "ye gar the tear come in my een. Hech! look at yon lassie! how could you think t'eat plums through siccan a bonny story?" "Hets," answered Jean, who had, in fact, cleared the plate, "I aye listen best when my ain mooth's stappit."
"Mind yer ain business," retorted Ebie, who could think of nothing else to say. Down below daft Jock Gordon, with some dim appropriateness was beginning his elricht croon of "The devil sat on his ain lum-tap, Hech how black and reeky "
"Ye're sure o' thaat?" put in a woman. "Ay, about she comes," said Liston, as the sail came down on the first tack. He was mistaken; they dipped the lug as cleverly as any man in the town could. "Hech! look at her hauling on the rope like a mon," cried a woman. The sail flew up on the other tack. "She's an awfu' lassie,". whined another. "He's awa," groaned Liston, "he's doon!"
Having gone some way through the mine, a sudden noise, arising from the falling of coal from the roof, caused him to ask the reason of the noise. "Hallo!" exclaimed Grimaldi, greatly terrified, "what's that?" "Hech!" said his guide, "it's only a wee bit of coal fallen down we have that three or four times a day."
"Hech! it will take twa o' the strongest men here to lift yon lassie," replied the man, lumbering slowly along towards the prostrate woman, and trying to raise her. If he failed in lifting her, he succeeded in waking her, and he was saluted for his pains with a volley of curses, to which he replied with a shake or two. "Oh, horror! I will not stay here!" cried Faustina, stamping with rage.
"Hech! sic a parish, a parish, a parish; Hech! sic a parish as little Dunkeld! They hae stickit the minister, hanged the precentor, Dung down the steeple, and drucken the bell." "But may I keep the books a little while, Mr. Mackaye?" "Keep them till ye die, gin ye will. What is the worth o' them to me?
'Weel, weel, sighed the widow, rising, and giving him her hand, 'what maun be, maun be! But, hech, sirs, let it be a lightsome spring, for I hae a heavy, heavy heart! The next minute the widow was capering away to a most 'lightsome' air hands across cast off down the middle, and up again. And a merrier dredgee," concluded the poet, "was never seen in Mull."
"Not they, they're to the left; but what the winds and waves they're after " "They're trying to make him hear, likely enough, and they might as well call on my grandmother. He's as dead as a herring." "Whisht! whisht! He's a living soul! Hech, sirs! there's nought but the grip o' despair would haud a man on the keel of 's boat in waves like yon." "Silence, all!"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking