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"Na, sir, no that large, but unco heavy, as it might be filled fu' o' minerals, the like of whilk the college lads whiles collect in the mountains. Na, it was no' large, but unco heavy, and she wad na let it out o' her hand ae minute." "Just so. Would you know that young woman again if you were to see her?" "Na, I could na see her face.
"Ca' ye that haudin' o' 't richt, to temp' me to wrang 'im?" said Aggie, going steadily on at her gathering, while the grieve kept following her step by step. "Ye're unco short wi' a body, Aggie!" "I weel may be, whan a body wad hae me neglec' my paid wark." "Weel, I reckon ye're i' the richt o' 't efter a', sae I'll jist fa' tu, an' len' ye a han'."
"It is pleasant to learn that Mistress Waynflete is so interested in my doings," said I, with as much coolness and aloofness as I could muster. I would at least keep my foolishness on my own side of my teeth. "Unco pleasant, I hae nae doot," was her dry comment. And she set her red lips aslant as if she were swallowing vinegar. I remembered my new function, and looked at my watch.
For the grace that he spak aboot, that was less nor the nature an' the providence. I cud see unco little o' grace intil 't. Here Ericson broke in fearful, apparently, lest his boyfriend should be actually about to deny the God in whom he did not himself believe. 'Robert, he said solemnly, 'one thing is certain: if there be a God at all, he is not like that.
There him at Agincourt wha shone. Few better were or braver; And yet wi' funny queer Sir John He was an unco shaver For mony a day. Dam't, but Burns is gude." "Huts, man, dinna sweer sae muckle!" frowned the old Provost. "Ou, there's waur than an oath now and than," said the baker. "Like spice in a bun it lends a briskness. But it needs the hearty manner wi't.
"Now if the secret were mine," said the mendicant, "I wad stand out for a half; for you see, though I am but a puir ragged body, and couldna carry silver or gowd to sell for fear o' being taen up, yet I could find mony folk would pass it awa for me at unco muckle easier profit than ye're thinking on."
'And what for should ye? said her lord and master; 'to dance a' night, I'se warrant, and no to be fit to walk your tae's-length the morn, and we have ten Scots miles afore us? Na, na. Stable the steed, and pit your wife to bed, when there's night wark to do. 'Aweel, aweel, Willie hinnie, ye ken best; but oh, take an unco care o' yoursell, and mind ye haena the blessing o' sight.
Doobtless age does gar poetry smack a wee better; but I said auld only 'cause there's sae little new poetry that I care aboot comes my gait. Mr Graham's unco ta'en wi' Maister Wordsworth no an ill name for a poet; do ye ken onything aboot him, my leddy?" "I never heard of him." "I wadna gie an auld Scots ballant for a barrowfu' o' his.
I do not understand the phrase," I remarked. "Ou, ye see, Rob soon gathered an unco band o' blue-bonnets at his back, for he comes o' a rough name when he's kent by his ain, and a name that's held its ain for mony a lang year, baith again king and parliament, and kirk too, for aught I ken an auld and honourable name, for as sair as it has been worried and hadden down and oppressed.
This is an unco splutter, as the oald sow said when she tumbled in the gutter." "Ay," said Sandy Toddle, "a fuff in the pan, I'm thinking. He promises owre muckle to last long! He lauchs owre loud to be merry at the end o't. For the loudest bummler's no the best bee, as my father, honest man, used to tell the minister." "Ah-ah, I'm no so sure o' that," said Tam Brodie.
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