 Paperie; na, na! nane could ever say that o' the trades o' Glasgow. Sae they sune came to an agreement to take a' the idolatrous statues of sants — sorrow be on them ! — out o' their neuks. And sae the bits o...  Rob Roy. By the author of 'Waverley'. - Page 128by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Charles George Harper - England - 1924 - 270 pages
...an agreement to take a' the idolatrous statues o' sants (sorrow be on them) out o' their neuks. And sae the bits o' stane idols were broken in pieces...into the Molendinar Burn, and the auld kirk stood ai crouse as a cat when the fleas are kaimed off her, and a'body was alike pleased." The Cathedral... | |
 | Walter Scott - Fiction - 2006 - 438 pages
...an agreement to take a 1 the idolatrous statues of sants (sorrow be on them) out o 1 their neuks and sae the bits o' stane idols were broken in pieces...and the auld kirk stood as crouse as a cat when the flaes are kaimed aff her, and a 1 body was alike pleased. And I hae heard wise folk say, that if the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Fiction - 2006 - 614 pages
...a 1 the idolatrous statues of sants (sorrow be on them) out o 1 their neuks - and sae the bits o 1 stane idols were broken in pieces by Scripture warrant,...and the auld kirk stood as crouse as a cat when the flaes are kaimed aff her, and a 1 body was alike pleased. And I hae heard wise folk say, that if the... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Travel - 2006 - 401 pages
...saints pulled down from their niches and thrown into the brook, while, as Andrew Fairserviee hath it, " The auld kirk stood as crouse as a cat when the fleas are caimed aff her, and a' body was alike pleased." We went all through the cathedral, which is fitted np as a Protestant place... | |
 | 194 pages
...agreement to take a' the idolatrous statues of sants (sorrow be on them) out o' their neuks — and sae the bits o' stane idols were broken in pieces...and the auld kirk stood as crouse as a cat when the flaes are kaimed aff her, and a' body was alike pleased.1 Because of its episcopal origin, the armorial... | |
 | American periodicals - 1880 - 814 pages
...agreement to take a' the idolatrous statues of sants (sorrow be on them !) out o' their neuks — And sae the bits o' stane idols were broken in pieces...and the auld kirk stood as crouse as a cat when the flaes are kaimed aff her, and a'body was alike pleased. And I "hae heard wise folk say, that if the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 400 pages
...take a' the idolatrous statues of sants (sorrow be on them) out o' their neuks — And sae the hits o' stane idols were broken in pieces by Scripture...and the auld kirk stood as crouse as a cat when the flaes are kaimed aff her, and a'body was alike pleased. And I hae heard wise folk say, that if the... | |
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