10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STIBBLER»
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stibbler in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
I kent him just a stibblart lown Without a shoe. Shirrefs' Poems, p. 239. STIBBLER
, s.] Insert, as sense 1 . A horse turned out, after the harvest is gathered in, to feed
on the grass and herbs growing among the stubble, S. V. illustration in Dict. 2.
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Notes and Queries and Historic Magazine
lifiumx Ram: Fowmu. 24, Victoria Grove, Chelsea, S.W. “S'r1cxrr” on “S1'1oxm
MINISTER ” (9"' S. iii. 229).—~The sense in which “stickit” is applied to Dominie
Sampson, where he is cal ed, in 'Guy Mannering, chap.iii., a“stickit stibbler,” is ...
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Notes and Queries: For Readers and Writers, Collectors and ...
The sense in which “stickit” is applied to Dominic Sam son, where he is called, in '
Guy Mannering, chap. iii., a “stickit stibbler,” is entirely distinct from that of sticking
or stabbing, with which it could never sibly be confounded by one familiar with ...
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
I kent him just a stibblart lown Without a shoe. Shirrefs' Poems, p. 239. STIBBLER
, s.] Insert, as sense 1 . A horse turned out, after the harvest is gathered in, to feed
on the grass and herbs growing among the stubble, S. V. illustration in Dict. 2.
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Waverley Novels: Redgauntlet
... come to life, 84. statesman, small landed proprietor, 164. stibbler, term applied
in ridicule to a divinity student, 148 ; stickit stibbler, a divinity student who has not
been able to complete his studies in theology, 292. stoup, flagon, no. stouthrief, ...
... small landed proprietor, 164. stibbler, term applied in ridicule to a divinity
student, 148 ; stickit stibbler, a divinity student who has not been able to complete
his studies in theology, 292. stoup, flagon, 110. atouthrief, robbery with violence,
16, ...
... the territory over which the peculiar jurisdiction nf the officer called a 'steward'
extended, in Scotland Stibbler, a ludicrous name for a probationer, or Scotch
divinity student; STICKET STIBBLER, a student of divinity whe has not been able
to ...
Conjuro" continued the Dominie, " ahjuro, contestor, atquc viriliter impero tibil" —
"What, in the name of Sathan, are ye feared for, wi' your French gibberish, that
would make a dog sick? Listen, ye stickit stibbler, to what I tell ye, or ye sail rue it
...
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Redgauntlet, a Tale of the Eighteenth Century
A gentleman, in my case, would have settled the matter with the Kirk-treasurer for
a small sum of money; but the poor stibbler, the penniless dominie, having
married his cousin of Kittlebasket, must next have proclaimed her frailty to the
whole ...
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Waverley Novels: Guy Mannering
Listen, ye stickit stibbler, to what I tell ye, or ye sail rue it while there 's a limb o' ye
hings to anither! — Tell Colonel Mannering that I ken he's seeking me. He kens,
and I ken, that the blood will be wiped out, and the lost will be found, And ...