 Yes ; there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o' their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan.  Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Page 124by Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Herbert Henry Asquith - Great Britain - 1926 - 360 pages
...have riven the thack off seven cottar houses — look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster. . . . There's thirty hearts there that wad hae wanted bread ere ye had wanted sunkets, and spent their life blood ere ye had scratched your finger.' " My Lords, it is with sentiments like these — with... | |
 | Jerome Mitchell - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 284 pages
...does not couch on the hearthstane at Ellangowan. Ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram,—what do ye glower after our folk for? There's thirty hearts there that...their life-blood ere ye had scratched your finger. Yes, there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that... | |
 | Miranda J. Burgess - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 330 pages
...gypsy clan led by Meg Merrilies, whose response invokes a poetic justice based on feudal symmetry: There's thirty hearts there, that wad hae wanted bread ere ye had wanted sunkets [delicacies] , and spent their life-blood ere ye had scratched your finger . . . that ye have turned... | |
 | Hansjörg Bay, Kai Merten - Cultural awareness - 2006 - 674 pages
...have ye quenched seven smoking hearths [...] Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses [...] There's thirty hearts there, that wad hae wanted bread...their life-blood ere ye had scratched your finger — Yes — there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the habe that was born last... | |
 | C. Van Tiel, M.G. van Neck - 1912 - 326 pages
...glower5) after our folk for! — There's thirty hearts that i) A half-witted gypsy. 2) Own. 3) Thatch. had hae ') wanted bread ere ye had wanted sunkets *),...their life-blood ere ye had scratched your finger. Yes — there's thirty yonder from the auld *) wife of a hundred to the babe that was born last week,... | |
 | Arthur Woollgar Verrall - Classical philology - 1913 - 420 pages
...does not couch on the hearthstane at Ellangowan. Ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram — what do ye glower after our folk for ? There's thirty hearts there that wad hae wanted bread ere ye had wanted sunkets1, and spent their life-blood ere ye had scratched your finger. Yes — there's thirty yonder,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1892 - 738 pages
...at Ellangowan. Ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram, — what do ye glower after our folk for ? There 's thirty hearts there that wad hae wanted bread ere ye had wanted sunkets,1 and spent their life-blood ere ye had scratched your finger. Yes, there's thirty yonder,... | |
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