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I trust the house wunna coup the crane for a' that's come and gane yet; and if it does, I'll never bear sae base a mind as thae corbies in the Gallowgate an I am to lose by ye, I'se ne'er deny I hae won by ye mony a fair pund sterling Sae, an it come to the warst, I'se een lay the head o' the sow to the tail o' the grice."* * Anglice, the head of the sow to the tail of the pig.
"The only drap o' gentle bluid that's in your body was our great grand-uncle's that was justified at Dumbarton, and you set yourself up to say ye wad degrogate frae your place to visit me! Hark thee, man, I owe thee a day in harst I'll pay up your thousan pund Scots, plack and bawbee, gin ye'll be an honest fellow for anes, and just daiker up the gate wi' this Sassenach."
"What do you mean by bringing such a creature as that here, sir? and where is the pony you rode to Glasgow upon?" were my very natural and impatient inquiries. "I sell't it, sir. It was a slink beast, and wad hae eaten its head aff, standing at Luckie Flyter's at livery. And I hae bought this on your honour's account. It's a grand bargain cost but a pund sterling the foot that's four a'thegither.
'Borrows eighteenpence on Monday, and comes on Tuesday for a shillin' to make it up half-a-crown; calls again on Vensday for another half-crown to make it five shillin's; and goes on, doubling, till he gets it up to a five pund note in no time, like them sums in the 'rithmetic book 'bout the nails in the horse's shoes, Sammy.
Fothergill West of Branksome, who would come if he was required, ought tae be able tae show a bauld face what think ye?" "'Deed, sir," I says, "feastin' is aye better than fechtin' but if ye'll raise me a pund a month, I'll no' shirk my share o' either." "We won't quarrel ower that," says he, and agreed tae the extra twal' pund a year as easy as though it were as many bawbees.
An ounce o' prevention, ye ken, lads, is better than a pund o' cure!" And having given this order, the warden dismissed his subordinates to their various evening duties. Yes, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure! But it is a pity the honest warden had not known when to apply the preventive agent. Meanwhile, how had Faustina borne her imprisonment? Why, excellently.
"On second thoughts, Groove, you must not ask ten shillings; you must ask twenty pounds for that rubbish." "Twenty pund! What for will I seek twenty pund?" "Simply because people that would not give you ten shillings for it will offer you eleven pounds for it if you ask twenty pounds." "The fules," roared Groove. "Twenty pund! hem!" He looked closer into it.
"Auchty pund, sir, if you please the lave when you like; I ken ye, Mr. Miller." While counting her the notes, the purchaser said slyly to her: "There's more than a hundred cran in the cutter, my woman." "A little, sir," replied the vender; "but, ere I could count them till ye by baskets, they would lose seven or eight cran in book,* your gain, my loss." *Bulk.
It is not called Oyster Pond, as the uninitiated would be very apt to get it, but Oyster Pùnd, the last word having a sound similar to that of the cockney's 'pound, in his "two pùnd two."
"Troth, I am thinking sae," continued his tormentor, who seemed to have pleasure in rubbing the galled wound, "troth, I aye thought sae; and it's no sae lang since I said to Luckie Gemmers, Never think you, luckie' said I, that his honour Monkbarns would hae done sic a daft-like thing as to gie grund weel worth fifty shillings an acre, for a mailing that would be dear o'a pund Scots.
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