"Speir" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lady intimate with the family, the reporter sought out Dr. Speir, the attending physician of the patient, and thus details his experience ...
— Fasting Girls - Their Physiology and Pathology • William Alexander Hammond
... thinking; or aiblins your leddyship's butler! Weel, woman, I'll tell ye this: Pharaoh spared ae butler, but Erchie Campbell will no' spare anither. Na! na! Pharaoh's case is no' to be taken as forming ony preceedent. And so if he doesna answer certain questions we have to speir at him, before morning he'll hang ...
— The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays • Various
... now ye hae answered a' my questions, and never speired wherefore I asked them, I'll gie you a bit canny advice, and ye maunna speir what for neither. Tib Mumps will be out wi' the stirrup-dram in a gliffing. She'll ask ye whether ye gang ower Willie's Brae or through Conscowthart Moss; tell her ony ane ye like, but be sure (speaking low and emphatically) to tak the ane ye dinna tell her.' The farmer laughed ...
— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott |
