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The one man in the country who could have surmised the situation between the two the barn boss, McAlpin if he entertained suspicions, was far too pawky to share them with any one.
He was the Scotch doctor who had already been Alec's companion on two of his expeditions; and there was a firm friendship between them. He was an Edinburgh man, with a slow drawl and a pawky humour, a great big fellow, far and away the largest of any of the whites; and his movements were no less deliberate than his conversation. 'Hulloa, there, he called out, as he came in.
"Then, again," said Gazen, with a pawky twinkle in his eye, "our electric light may have woke them up." "Perhaps they are signalling now," said I, "while we are wasting precious time. I wish you would look." "Yes, if you like; but I don't think you'll see any 'luminous projections, human or otherwise." "I shall see the face of Mars, anyhow, and that will be a rare experience.
He had travelled much and benefited by his travels; was a sociable being, exceedingly good-natured, and peered through spectacles as thick as pebbles, being very short-sighted, and without his glasses would scarcely recognise you a yard off. Yet he could see into the heart of things as well as most men, for he was a shrewd Scotchman, and had a pawky humour.
he treasures up in the storehouse of a highly retentive memory. In seeking briefly to analyse the secrets of Dr. Macleod's wide-spread fame, we are almost constrained to think that they will be found to lie in qualities belonging to the heart rather than the head. His bon hommie is unique; he has a rich, pawky humour, which with his own countrymen is almost worshipped.
The Paymaster changed his look and his accent, and spoke again with something of a pawky humour that those who knew him best were well aware was a sign that his temper was at its worst. "Ay," said he, "and you forgot about the boy. What's to be done with him? I suppose you would leave him to rout with the kye he was bred among, or haunt the rocks with the sheep.
A few months later the silver cord was loosened, the golden bowl was broken, and between the poor old man and the temptations which beset him fell the thick curtains of the grave. One day we had a call from a "pawky auld carle" of a wandering Scotchman. To him I owe my first introduction to the songs of Burns.
Mealy pudding, a Scotch dish made of oatmeal and suet, in form something like a sausage. Michty me, an exclamation. Na, no, not. Pawky, sly. Pewit, the lapwing, a species of plover. Each clan had its own especial pattern which was worn by all members. Redding up, putting in order. Sal, an exclamation. Scone, a flat cake, unsweetened, baked on a griddle.
"It is indeed but a fashion of integrity that ye will find amang them," replied David Deans, "and a fashion of wisdom, and fashion of carnal learning gazing, glancing-glasses they are, fit only to fling the glaiks in folk's een, wi' their pawky policy, and earthly ingine, their flights and refinements, and periods of eloquence, frae heathen emperors and popish canons.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, a pawky old Scotsman who became the Liberal Prime Minister, did not confine the members of his Cabinet to the respectable leaders of old time, but brought in new blood, among his selections being Lloyd George. This promotion was unexpected by the public. Lloyd George had made a big reputation in Parliament, but it was always that of the free-lance.
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