10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «TOCHERLESS»
Scopri l'uso di
tocherless nella seguente selezione bibliografica. Libri associati con
tocherless e piccoli estratti per contestualizzare il loro uso nella letteratura.
1
The rustic bard, or, A voice from the people; being ...
THE TOCHERLESS MAID. Bess o' the Brae had a soul-thrillin' ee, A cheek, its
marrow ye'll seldom see — A neck as white as the new dri'en snaw, Her hair had
the gleet o' the hoodie craw — A waist fu' jimp, an' leg as tight, A voice sae sweet,
...
2
The ballad book: a selection of the choicest British ballads
Fair Annet took it ill : ' I winna wed a tocherless maid Against my parents' will.' 3 O
Annet's gane off intill her bower ; Lord Thomas rode swiftly doun ; And now he
has come to his mither's ha' By the lee light o' the moon. 4 ' O sleep ye, wake ye, ...
3
Scottish proverbs, collected and arranged by A. Henderson
A fair maiden tocherless, will get mae wooers than husbands. A maid aft seen,
and a gown aft worn, are disesteemed and held in scorn. A tocherless dame
stays lang at hame. A dink maiden aft maks a dirty wife. A seven years' maiden is
aye ...
Scottish proverbs, Andrew Henderson,
1832
4
Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
Your brother told you he was on the point of sailing again for Brazil on a three-
years' cruise, and that he took a heavy heart with him, having fallen in love with a
pretty tocherless Welsh lassie at Swansea. I mind he told you they would make a
...
William Chambers, Robert Chambers,
1860
5
The English dialect dictionary
(1819) xxv. Rnf. My bairne hes tocher-gud to ge yow, Raf Harp (1819) 99. (5) Sc.
A landless laird with n tocherless daughter, Scorr lVavw-lcy (1814) lxvii. Arg. The
ones with the tocher won't have me, and the tocherless girls I dare not betray, ...
6
The Works of Walter Scott, Esq
... Imight have thought it my duty to insist upon certain compliances respecting
name and bearings, whilk i now, as a landless laird wi' a tocherless daughter, no
one can blame me for departing from." Now, Heaven he praised! thought Edward,
...
7
A Complete Collection of English Proverbs: Also, the Most ...
A sillerless man gangs fast through the market. A sorrowfu' heart's ay dry. A
taking hand will never want. A tale never tines in the telling. A tocherless dame
sits lang at hame. A toom pantry maks a thriftless gude-wife. A turn weel done is
soon ...
8
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
"Ye are no a family man yet, MrDun- shnnncr, and ye maybe canna comprehend
what a comfort she has been to me. I'm auld now, and a thocht failing; but it is a
great relief to me to ken that, when I am in my grave, Maggie winna be tocherless.
9
The Monastery. A Romance. By the Author of "Waverley". In ...
... in her turn, a little nearer to the cuttie-stool on which Tibh was seated, “ weel-
favoured is past my time of day; but I might pass then, for Iwasna sae tocherless
but What I had a bit land at my breast—lace. My father Was portioner of
Littledearg.
10
The Monastery. [By Sir Walter Scott, Bart.] With the ...
“Fie , fie, cummer,” said the matron of Glendearg, hitching her seat of honour, in
her turn ,' a little nearer to the cuttie-stool on which Tibb was seated; “weel-
favoured is past my time of day; but I might pass then, for I wasna sae tocherless
but ...