"Bairn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and said no more; for it is a characteristic of the awfu' bairn to be mute where fluency is required, ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
... a motherless bairn who would like you to be nursey to her," said Annie, seating herself on a low hassock at the old woman's feet and ...
— Red Rose and Tiger Lily - or, In a Wider World • L. T. Meade
... Beal, to bellow.—Th' bairn be{a}led oot that bad, I was cl{e}an scar'd, but it was at noht bud a battle-twig 'at hed crohl{e}d up'n hisairm. ...
— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat
... the baby and Polly, with the gentlemen of the party, embarked on board the Stella, which was to convey them to Oban. The men waved their bonnets, and uttered a prayer in Gaelic that the laird and his good wife and the "bairn" might be brought ...
— The Three Commanders • W.H.G. Kingston
... leal and true, Jean, Your task's ended noo, Jean, And I'll welcome you To the land o' the leal. Our bonnie bairn's there, Jean, She was baith guid and fair, Jean; O we grudged her right sair To ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... she, "your poor, heart-broken wife will fall on her knees before ye—and I implore ye, for my sake, and for the sake o' our dear bairn, that ye winna fling away life, and rush upon destruction. What in the name of fortune, has a peaceable man like you to do wi' war or wi' Bonaparte either? Dinna think of leaving the house this night, and I myself will go down to the town and procure ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 • Alexander Leighton
... is just like other people. You may remember a touch of nature (that is, of some people's nature) in Burns; you remember the simple exultation of the peasant mother, when her daughter gets a sweetheart: she is "well pleased to see her bairn respeckit like the lave," that is, like the other girls round. And undue humility, perhaps even befitting humility, holds back sadly in the race of life. It is recorded that a weaver in a certain village in Scotland ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 49, November, 1861 • Various
... wild and furious rush of men towards the poop. Down went man after man of the battle-worn defenders. Liot and Estein met sword to sword and face to face. The red shield was ripped from top to bottom by a sweep of the bairn-slayer's blade, and at the same moment Estein's descending sword was met by a Viking's battle-axe, and snapped ...
— Vandrad the Viking - The Feud and the Spell • J. Storer Clouston
... cruelty would go that length; but how will ye make answer for this morning's work?" He said, "To man I can be answerable; and for God, I will take him in my own hand." Claverhouse mounted his horse, and marched, and left her with the corpse of her dead husband lying there; she set the bairn on the ground, and gathered his brains, and tied up his head, and straighted his body, and covered him in her plaid, and sat down, and wept over him. It being a very desart place, where never victual grew, and far from neighbours, it was some time before any friends came ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott
... bairn, they're a fine key. Clever as the devil, but naething true about them. After the Danae-piff!" and he snapped his fingers. "Ye hae no call to worry, you're the hub, Mary—let the ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... out of the water, And water out of a stone, And milk out of a maiden's breast That bairn ...
— Literary and General Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley
... what brings ye here?' she said. 'I couldn't save the mother - her that's dead - but the bairn!' She had a note in her voice that filled poor Dick with consternation. 'Man,' she went on, 'what is it now? Is ...
— Tales and Fantasies • Robert Louis Stevenson |
