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Updated: May 17, 2025
As the snow blattered in his face, he muttered, "How it raves and drifts! On-ding o' snaw, ay, that's the word, on-ding " He was now at his own door, "Castle Street, No. 39." He opened the door and went straight to his den; that wondrous workshop, where in one year, 1823, when he was fifty-two, he wrote 'Peveril of the Peak, 'Quentin Durward, and 'St. Ronan's Well, besides much else.
"On-ding o' snaw, father," answered Jock, after having opened the window, and looked out with great composure. "They'll perish in the drifts!" said the expiring sinner "they'll perish wi' cauld! but I'll be het eneugh, gin a' tales be true." This last observation was made under breath, and in a tone which made the very attorney shudder.
"On-ding o' snaw, father," answered Jock, after having opened the window, and looked out with great composure. "They'll perish in the drifts!" said the expiring sinner "they'll perish wi' cauld! but I'll be het eneugh, gin a' tales be true." This last observation was made under breath, and in a tone which made the very attorney shudder.
Patsy had been teaching her companion such phrases as "a blatter o' sleet," an "on-ding o' snaw," and a "thresh o' rain." The Princess had a peculiar pleasure in learning such things and would often subtly misapply them in order to be corrected.
"Tak' Marjorie, and it on-ding o' snaw!" said Mrs. Keith. He said to himself, "On-ding, that's odd, that is the very word. Didn't he face "the angry airt," and make her bield his bosom, and into his own room with her, and lock the door, and out with the warm rosy little wifie, who took it all with great composure!
As I climbed the stairs I remembered that the minister's wife thought Leeby in need of sharpening. In a wet day the rain gathered in blobs on the road that passed our garden. Then it crawled into the cart-tracks until the road was streaked with water. Lastly, the water gathered in heavy yellow pools. If the on-ding still continued, clods of earth toppled from the garden dyke into the ditch.
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