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'What ca' they ye? she asked, still doubtful, but as proud of being defended as if the coarse words of her assailant had had no truth in them. 'Ye canna be my lang-leggit Geordie. 'What for no? 'Ye're a gentleman, faith! 'An' what for no, again? returned Shargar, beginning to smile. 'Weel, it's weel speired. Yer father was ane ony gait gin sae be 'at ye are as ye say.
'A lang-leggit, prood, landless laird, she would say, with a moist glimmer in her loving eyes, 'wi' the maist ridiculous feet ye ever saw hardly room for the five taes atween the twa! Losh! When Robert went forth into the streets, he was surprised to find how friendly every one was.
De'il tak' ye, ye lang-leggit, lazy loun, flichterin' roun' wi' yir 'Gude evenin' sir! an' a' sic' clishmaclaver. Awa' wi ye! dinna come fleechin' tae me! The kintra's I-sy wi' sic' haverils, comin' sundoonin' on puir folk 'at henna mickle mair nir eneugh fir thir ain sel's. Tak' aff yir coat an' wark, ye glaikit-De'il tak' ye; wha' fir ye girnin' at?" "Gude save's!"
He was all a-shake, bobbing up and down like a stopper in a soda-water bottle, and almost sobbing. "Ha' ye no wranged me enough wi' oo that? Ye lang-leggit liar, wi' yer skulkin murderin' tyke!" he cried. "Ye say it's Wullie. Where's yer proof?" and he snapped his fingers in the other's face. The Master was now as calm as his foe was passionate.
KYLOE, a small Highland cow. LAIRD, squire, lord of the manor. LANG-LEGGIT, long-legged. LAWING, a tavern reckoning. LEE LAND, pasture land. LIE, a word used in old Scottish legal documents to call attention to the following word or phrase. LIFT, capture, carry off by theft. LIMMER, a jade. LOCH, a lake. LOON, an idle fellow, a lout, a rogue. LUCKIE, an elderly woman. LUG, an ear, a handle.
Gellatley on an excursion of such unwonted extent, Edward began to dress himself in all haste, during which operation the minstrelsy of Davie changed its tune more than once: There's nought in the Highlands but syboes and leeks, And lang-leggit callants gaun wanting the breeks, Wanting the breeks, and without hose and shoon, But we'll a'win the breeks when King Jamie comes hame.
Gellatley on an excursion of such unwonted extent, Edward began to dress himself in all haste, during which operation the minstrelsy of Davie changed its tune more than once: There's nought in the Highlands but syboes and leeks, And lang-leggit callants gaun wanting the breeks, Wanting the breeks, and without hose and shoon, But we'll a'win the breeks when King Jamie comes hame.
Troth! the quean is not ill-favoured; but ye ha' lost a gude day's sport, Count, forbye ither losses which we sall na particularize. We hae had a noble flight at the heron, and anither just as guid after the bustard. God's santy! the run the lang-leggit loon gave us.
Gellatley on an excursion of such unwonted extent, Edward began to dress himself in all haste, during which operation the minstrelsy of Davie changed its tune more than once: There's nought in the Highlands but syboes and leeks, And lang-leggit callants gaun wanting the breeks, Wanting the breeks, and without hose and shoon, But we'll a'win the breeks when King Jamie comes hame.
As often as his name was mentioned, Miss Letty's eyes would grow hazy, and as often she would make some comical remark. 'Puir fallow! she would say, 'he was ower lang-leggit for this warld. Or again: 'Ay, he was a braw chield. But he canna live. His feet's ower sma'.
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