-
Where I and my love wont to gae. I lean'd my back into an aik (oak), I
thocht it was a
trusty tree; But
first it bow'd, and syne (soon) it brak (broke)...
- sae bauld; ’Tis the
badge o’ my
country – it's aye dear to me; And the
thocht o’ them
baith brings the
licht to my e’e.
Suaicheantas na h-Alba (The original...
- abbot's house,
Dunfermline on the
south side of
Maygate Street, the tag "Sen vord is
thrall and
thocht is free,/Keep
veill thye tonge, I
counsel the"....
- the others' work. He adds, nonchalantly, that his
rewards are small. And
thocht that I
amang the laif,
Unworthy be ane
place to have, Or in
thair nummer...
- poet has a
dream in
which he is
visited by the
personification of May. Me
thocht fresche May
befoir my bed
upstude In weid
depaynt of mony
divers hew, Sobir...
- scraich, no tae scraich, let nane hear… I
stottered oot, doon tae the watter,
thocht tae douk her in its
cauld jaups, but ower late. I laid her
quate in lang...
- be
acceptable to the King of
Ingland and to his
msatisfactioun or nocht,
thocht nocht expedient to giff
ansuer presentlie in that behalf."
Chisholm 1911a...
-
Scots grey but now I'm
khaki clad. My auld grey coat has disappeared, the
thocht o't
makes me sad. By
January 1916, the
Scots Greys were back in action,...
-
trees daudin on the roads, and folk hid
below their beds an pra****-they
thocht it was the judgment! But
Gourlay rammed his
black stepper in the shafts...
- were
thwarted by his discomfort. And now
schir laitlie eftir mes, To dyt
thocht I
begowthe to dres, The
sentence lay full
evill till find,
Unsleipit in...
