10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WANCHANCIE»
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wanchancie in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
wanchancie and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Edinburgh monthly magazine [afterw.] Blackwood's ...
Wanchancie, unlucky : — " Wae worth the man wha first did shape That vile
wanchancie thing— a rape." —Burns: Poor Mailie's Elegy. Wanrestful, restless,
unruly, uneasy : — ' ' An' may 1870.] The Poetry and Humour of the Scottish
Language.
Burns: Tke Twa Dogs. He was a gash and faithful tyke. Idem. I'm as tired of it as a
tyke of lang kail . You h ave lost your own stomach and found a tyke's. Allan
Ramsay's Scots Proverbs. Wanchancie, unlucky : — Wae worth the man wha first
did ...
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The English master; or, Student's guide to reasoning and ...
It occurs in two words in the following lines of Burns : — " An' may they never
learn the gaets Of ither vile, wanrestfu' pets 1" ******* " Wae worth the man wha
first did shape That vile, wanchancie thing a rape." L In these examples wanrestfu
" ...
William Banks (teacher of composition.),
1829
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Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. With a portrait
Wae worth the man Wha' first did shape That vile wanchancie thing-a rape! It
maks guid fellows girn an' gapc - Wi' ehokin dread 5 An' Robin's bonnet'wcave wi'
crape -\ X '7 v For Asailic dead; O, a' ye Bards on bonie Doon! An' wha on Ayr ...
5
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, ...
... thread that goes from the shuttle through the web; woof Waifu', wailing Wair, to
lay out, to expend Wale, choice; to choose % Walie, ample, large, jo_l_ly ; an
interjection of distress Wame, the belly - Wamefu', a belly-full Wanchancie,
unlucky, ...
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A Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns. Illustrated by ...
... the man wha first did shape That vile wanchancie thing—a rape! It maks guid
fellows girn an' gape Wi' choakin dread, 26.
Robert Burns, George GLEIG (Bishop of the Scotch Episcopal Church at Brechin.),
1812
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Stories by English Authors: Scotland
... far beyond the bounds of patience, and, while he and Laurie were at deil
speed the liars, he was wanchancie aneugh to abuse Lapraik's doctrine as weel
as the man, and said things that garr'd folks' flesh grue that heard them—he
wasna ...
Various Authors, 1st World Library,
2007
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Poems, Chiefly In The Scottish Dialect
Wae worth the man wha first did shape' That vile, wanchancie thing-a rape .'. It
maks guid fellows girn an' gape, Wi' chokin dread 3 An' Robin's bonnet wave wi'
crape, For Maz'lz'e dead. 0, a' ye Bards on bonie Doon! An' wha on Ayr your ...
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A Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns
O, a' ye bards benorth Kinghorn, Call your muses up, an' mourn Our ewie wi' the
crooked horn, Stown frae us, an' fell'd, an' a'." BURNS. SKINNER. 44 Wae worth
the man wha first did shape That vile wanchancie thing — a rape ! ' It maks guid ...
O the pity Waft, the woof Waifn, wailing Wa'tr, to lay out, to expend Wati, chose,
chosen Wale, choice, to choose Walie, ample, large, jolly; also an interjection of
distress Wame, the belly; uam* fou, a bellyfull Wanchancie, unlucky Wanrestfu, ...