"Complimental" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... crowns their simple board, The healsome parritch, chief o' Scotia's food;[44] The soupe[45] their only hawkie[46] does afford, That 'yont the hallan snugly chows her cood;[47] The dame brings forth in complimental mood, 95 To grace the lad, her weel-hained kebbuck, fell;[48] And aft he's pressed, and aft he ca's it guid;[49] The frugal wine, garrulous, will tell, How 't was a towmond auld, sin' lint was ...
— Selections from Five English Poets • Various |
