10 BÜCHER, DIE MIT «SPELDRIN» IM ZUSAMMENHANG STEHEN
Entdecke den Gebrauch von
speldrin in der folgenden bibliographischen Auswahl. Bücher, die mit
speldrin im Zusammenhang stehen und kurze Auszüge derselben, um seinen Gebrauch in der Literatur kontextbezogen darzustellen.
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The Yelpin' Stane: Stories of Scottish Village Life
CHAPTER V CHARLIE ROBISON CRUSOE A SPELDRIN is a small stock-fish,
split, salted, and sun-dried. It is thin and tough, being mostly skin and bone, and
needs to be chewed with great patience. This makes the eater so thirsty that he
will ...
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The castes of Edinburgh
... weel ye b — hes ;" the eccentric Monboddo ; the dry gristly atheist Hugo Arnot,
described by Henry Erskine, who saw him picking a speldrin, as " So like his
meat :" the witty Harry himself ; the rough but hearty Brax- field ; and so many
others.
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A Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words ...
To SPELDER, *. a. 1. To spread open, S. 2. To rack the limbs in striding, S. To
SPELDER, n. n. To toss the legs awkwardly in running, Ettr. For. Apparently a
derivative from Speld, T. q. v. SPELDING, SPELDEN, SPELDRIN, «. A small fish,
split, ...
John Jamieson, John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.),
1846
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The Fife coast from Queensferry to Fifeness
The original Crail capon is a tradition now, but you may form some idea of its
quality from the degenerate " speldrin " or " spelding " of our own times. Like
Anstruther, Crail too was a shipping and taverning nucleus for a group of Fife
Lairds, ...
Henry Brougham Farnie,
1860
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The Life of David Roberts, R.A.: Compiled from His Journals ...
Although the fruits here are delicious, and the wines exquisite, a wee drap o' the
peat-reek, and the tail o' a speldrin, and a haver wi' an auld frien' like yoursel',
wad to me be a treat whilk I could relish better. I expect to get to Seville next ...
James Ballantine, David Roberts,
1866
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The Life of Mansie Wauch: Tailor in Dalkeith
Nobody was there but a touzy, ragged, halflins callant of thirteen, (for I speired his
age,) with a desperate dirty face, and long carroty hair, tearing a speldrin with his
teeth, which looked long and sharp enough, and throwing the skin and lugs ...
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The Life of Mansie Wauch: Tailor in Dalkeith Written by Himself
Nobody was there but a touzy, ragged, halflins callant of thirteen, (for I speired his
age,) with a desperate dirty face, and long carroty hair, tearing a speldrin with his
teeth, which looked long and sharp enough, and throwing the skin and lugs ...
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Edinburgh Dramatic Review
They throw themselves out of their characters, to show the audience that such is
their^acute perception of the ridiculous, they cannot withstand his humour, — (
how interesting !) and even Mrs Nicol, — and we would expect a speldrin ...
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The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith
Nobody was there but a touzy, ragged, halflins callant of thirteen, (for I speired his
age,) with a desperate dirty face, and long carroty hair, tearing a speldrin with his
teeth, which looked long .' and sharp enough, and throwing the skin and lugs.
David Macbeth Moir, Mansie Wauch,
1828
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The Forbes and the Gordons
... burnt foot, until he fell clean on the floor, as flat as a speldrin — ye never saw
such fun ! " Even James Johnston himseF, married as he was, began AND THE
JOHNSTONS OF FAIRLY. 209.