Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 9, 2025
"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.
And, as I said, ye may take it on trust that that's been ane o' the men killed there, and that it's been the gipsies that took your pockmanky when they fand the chaise stickin' in the snaw; they wadna pass the like o' that, it wad just come to their hand like the bowl o' a pint stoup.
This doesn't injure the verse, you see, as blaw and snaw rhyme just as well as blow and snow, beside bringing tears to the common eye with their poetic associations. Similarly, if we had daughter and slaughter, we were to write them dochter and slauchter, substituting in all cases doon, froon, goon, and toon, for down, frown gown, and town.
And so he was glad to part with the whole to Miss Hill; nor did he care to spend upon himself the £3,500, which I believe was the price. It went right and left in gifts; till one day he cheerfully remarked: "It's a' gane awa' Like snaw aff a wa'." "Is there really nothing to show for it?" he was asked. "Nothing," he said, "except this new silk umbrella."
"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.
Cosmo ran to the other. "Their feet's fu' o' snaw," said Aggie. "Ay; it's ba'd hard," said Cosmo. "They maun hae come ower a saft place: it wadna ba' the nicht upo' the muir." "Hae ye yer knife, Cosmo?" asked Aggie. Here a head was put out of the carriage-window. It was that of a lady in a swansdown travelling-hood. She had heard an unintelligible conversation and one intelligible word.
Salmon-fishing ceases to be very enjoyable when the snaw broo, or melted snow from the hilltops, begins to mix with the brown waters of Tweed or Tay; when the fallen leaves hamper the hook; and when the fish are becoming sluggish, black, and the reverse of comely.
She was a weel-born lassie, sax or seven years auld, and sma' of her age, but no' half as sma' as Bobby, I'm thinking." He stopped to let this significant comparison sink into Auld Jock's mind. "The lassie had nae liking for the unmannerly wind and snaw of Edinburgh.
Peter attended their departure full of interest, and as soon as they were in the fir woods MacLure explained that it would be an eventful journey. "It's a richt in here, for the wind disna get at the snaw, but the drifts are deep in the Glen, and th'ill be some engineerin' afore we get tae oor destination."
An' as it fell oot, it was a fearsome nicht o' win' an' drivin' snaw waur, I wad reckon, nor onything we hae hereawa'. But he turnt na aside for win' or snaw, for little cared he what cam til 'im or o' 'im, wi' sic a how in his hert.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking