10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLACKLESS»
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Sc. There are in cottages, \Vhare poor folk plackless gae, NICOLL l'm-ms ted.
1843) 16:. Abd. lt taught me that the placklcss hind May shame the proudest pucr,
ST1L1. Collar's Sunday (1845 100. Frf. My plackless purse. _IonNsTON Poems ...
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George Beattie, of Montrose. A poet, a humourist, and a man ...
... Save they that had or had-na grace; His flocks and his eternal need Were the
sole burden of his head. For warld's gear nae care had he, Nor valu'd earldoms a
flee: Plackless he steppit into life, And plackless left this mortal strife. But now the
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A. S. Mt CYRUS (pseud. [i.e. Alexander Smith.]), George BEATTIE, 1863
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The Works: In Four Volumes
Scott. Pigmy-scraper. Little fiddler; a term of contempt for a bad player. “ A pigmy-
scraper wi' his fiddle.” - - Burns. Pint-stoup. A two-quart measure. Pine. Pingle.
Pluck. Plackless. Plaidie. “ Some can stan the sword better than the pint-stoup.
Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham, 1835
Not even in the great city of Aberdeen did I meet with one who appeared either
by nature or by dowry fit to become Mistress James Plackless of Drumferlie. My
father was right. There was nobody like my mother, even in Aberdeen. I studied ...
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Notes, Historical And Illustrative, By The Author, Glossary, Etc
Plackless, moneyless. Plaid, a worsted mantle worn by the Highlanders,
generally woven in strips ofditlerent colours, to distinguish their respective clans.
Plainslanes, the pavement. Plane-tree, name erroneously given to the sycamore.
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Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. With a portrait
... 'a small quantity; Pine, pain, uneasiness Pjr," to put ' \ Pluck, an old Scotch coin
Plackless, pennyless Elafad, a'public proclamation, Plicttie', dimin. os plate '
PlevZ, orpieugh, a_plow, Plilkxe, itrickl Plumpit, did plump . Poor'mh, poverty' Pou
, ...
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The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, ...
... l0 middcn, 10 inflame make an English penny Ram-feezl'd, fatigued, overs
pread Plackless, pennyless, without money R3m"tams thoushlless, forward Plaid,
an outer loose garment Randie, turbulent, unsettled maiden, wofgtcd cloth Rantin
, ...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
... P' ” “ But, neibour," said the oppressed widow, “ I canna think upon warld's gear
the day,—no even to gie the praise whar it is rightly due,--when I wad gie a' that
men ever wared or won, to see \Villie Lonie standing feckless and plackless ...
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The Works of Robert Burns
Ye chief, to you my talc I tell, Poor plackless devils like mylsel' ! It sets you 1 , Wi'
bitter, dearthfu' wines to mell, Or foreign gill. May gravels round his blather
wrench, An' gouts torment him inch by inch, Wha twists his gruntle wi' a glunch O'
sour ...
Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham, 1854
Twins monie a poor, doylt, drunken hash, 0' half his days; An' sends, beside, auld
Scotland's cash To her warst faes. Ye Scots, wha wish auld Scotland well! 'Ye
chief, to you my tale I tell, ' Poor plackless devils like mysel ! It sets you ill, Vo 1.
Robert Burns, Josiah Walker, 1811
