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A' that I ken against it is, that the teil a candlestick, or ony thing like it, is in the house, except the auld airn branches that has been here since Laird Kenneth's time, and the tin sconces that your father gard be made by auld Willie Winkie the tinkler, mair be token that deil an unce of siller plate is about the house at a', forby the lady's auld posset dish, that wants the cover and ane o' the lugs."
Why it was called the kind gallows, we are unable to inform the reader with certainty; but it is alleged that the Highlanders used to touch their bonnets as they passed a place which had been fatal to many of their countrymen, with the ejaculation 'God bless her nain sell, and the Teil tamn you! It may therefore have been called kind, as being a sort of native or kindred place of doom to those who suffered there, as in fulfilment of a natural destiny.
"Her nainsell muckle obliged till the Bailie's honour," replied Dougal; "but teil be in her shanks fan she gangs on a cause-way'd street, unless she be drawn up the Gallowgate wi' tows, as she was before."
Soon we come to perhaps the grandest ruin cresting the bank of the Rhone, the donjon and chateau fort of Rochemaure, standing out formidably from the dark, jagged peaks, running sheer down to the river's edge. After Le Teil is passed the clouds gradually clear. We have the deep warm blue of a southern sky and burning sunshine.
The safest way in England to render what is legally termed marriage absolutely indissoluble is for both parties to commit adultery. Magnus Hirschfeld, Zeitschrift für Sexualwissenschaft, Oct., 1908. H. Adner, "Die Richterliche Beurteilung der 'Zerrütteten' Ehe," Geschlecht und Gesellschaft, Bd. ii, Teil 8. X of his Sexual Life of Our Times.
He hastened, not without a curse on the intricacies of a Saxon breeches pocket, or spleuchan, as he called it, to deposit the treasure in his fob; and then, as if he conceived the benevolence called for some requital on his part, he gathered close up to Edward, with an expression of countenance peculiarly knowing, and spoke in an undertone, 'If his honour thought ta auld deevil Whig carle was a bit dangerous, she could easily provide for him, and teil ane ta wiser.
I am thinking they got some word oat o' the island what was intended I sought every glen and clench, as if I had been deer-stalking, but teil a want of his coat-tail could I see Cot tam!"
"He'll find plenty of moor-fowls and plack-cock on the moors of Auchingower, and he'll pe nae doubt for taking a late dinner, and a ped at the Manse, as he has done pefore now." "He has a gude right, Captain," said Jeanie. "Teil ane potter to ony ped in the kintra," answered the Captain.
Various facts and references bearing on this subject are brought together by Blumenbach, Anthropological Memoirs, translated by Bendyshe, p. 80; Block, Beiträge zur Ætiologie der Psychopathia Sexualis, Teil II, pp. 276-283; also Ploss and Bartels, Das Weib, seventh edition, p. 520.
STOUTHREEF, robbery. STRAE, straw. STRATH, a valley through which a river runs. SYBOES, onions. TA, the. TAIGLIT, harassed, loitered. TAILZIE, taillie, a deed of entail. TAPPIT-HEN, a pewter pot that holds three English quarts. TAYOUT, tailliers-hors; in modern phrase, Tally-ho! TEIL, the devil. TEINDS, tithes. TELT, told. TILL, to. TOUN, a hamlet, a farm. TREWS, trousers. TROW, believe, suppose.
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