"Drouthy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... favourite amusement, both at the time and afterwards, was to imagine and describe the visitors who might have called on him there in ignorance of the changed destination of the house. He would imagine and mimic the tones of a drouthy Highland drover demanding refreshment,—which, by the way, he would have been sure to get had he so applied to Dr Burton; of an entirely drunk Lowlander, persisting in representing himself as a bona fide traveller; of a highly Conservative old nobleman, posting up to town with his carriage-and-four ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton |
