10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCRIMPIT»
Discover the use of
scrimpit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
scrimpit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The fidgetty impatience of the widow did not fail to attract the attention of Mrs
Scrimpit, who, curious to know the cause, hastened out into tho street, and
quickly addressed her good. humoured neighbour. " Good day to you, Mrs
Gourlay," said ...
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Ainsworth's magazine: a miscellany of romance, general ...
Mr. Scrimpit, then, sat in his chair — which the reader may consider easy or not,
according to the data he has to go by — a single tallow candle by his side
rendered darkness visible throughout a somewhat spacious business-room,
around ...
James Manson. Then all the rest play'd after them, Wi' laughing and queer jokin' ;
And a' the stanes lay round the tee Like eggs when chuckle's clocking. Quoth
Scrimpit Ell, when Croudie play'd, "There's twa stanes, try and wick them;" The ...
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British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology
In Muirkirk there lives a taylor, He scrimpit weight for greed of filler; He scrimpit
weight, he counts not fair, Till he's made three hundred pounds and mair. The
year the sugar has come down, Three pounds give less nor half-a-crown, And a'
the ...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
For Kitty Doran, few there knows What boys she brought together, — Ah me ! that
e'er she squeezed her toes In over-scrimpit leather ! Oh, lasses seek a shoe to fit,
Or warp'd your foot or weenie. Nor ever dream for that you'll sit As Jock without ...
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The Proverbs of Scotland, collected and arranged, with ...
.A mind that's scrimpit ne'er wants care. “ But aiblins, neibour, ye hae not a heart,
And downa eithly wi' your cunzie part. If that be true, what signifies your gear? A
mind that's scrimpit never wants some care.” —Gentle S/cytkerd. A misty morning
...
Alexander HISLOP (Publisher.), 1870
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Shew me ane who scrimps the cog, and ril shew ane who has a scrimpit soul.
Now, if it werena that Sandie Macmillan has but a sma' steading, and is a bitter
Jacobite, and sus- ]K!cted of being a Catholic, he's the safest man in a' the land, ...
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The Modern Scottish Minstrel Or, the Songs of Scotland of ...
VVhen patfou's o' kale, thick wi' barley and pease, Can as weel keep a body frae
deeing, As stoupfou's o' whisky, and platefou's o' cheese, I 'll dree to be scrimpit
for leeing, for leeing, I 'll dree to be scrimpit for leeing. Tho' the house where we ...
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The modern Scottish minstrel; or, The songs of Scotland of ...
When patfou's o' kale, thick wi' barley and pease, Can as weel keep a body frae
deeing, As stoupfou's o' whisky, and platefou's o' cheese, I 'll dree to be scrimpit
for leeing, for leeing, I 'll dree to be scrimpit for leeing. Tho' the house where we ...
Shew me ane who scrimps the cog, and I'll shew ane who has a scrimpit soul.
Now, if it werena that Sandie Macmillan has but a sma' steading, and is a bitter
Jacobite, and suspected of being a Catholic, he's the safest man in a' the land, ...
