"Gane" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... guided her back to her bed. When she reached it, Elspie said, thoughtfully, "It's strange, unco strange. My strength is a' gane." ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... go ye're ways for a guid sharp trot, to bring the blood back to your veins. Ye'll be in time for the afternoon's post; but unless ye're expecting news of your own, ye needna fash for the rest. Mr Elgood's gane to fetch them." ...
— Big Game - A Story for Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... are gane and past, I am come frae a foreign land: I am come to tell thee my love at last - O Ladye, gie ...
— Phantasmagoria and Other Poems • Lewis Carroll
... I wist before I kiss'd That love had been so ill to win, I'd lock'd my heart in a case o' goud, And pinn'd it wi' a siller pin. Oh, oh! if my young babe were born, And set upon the nurse's knee; An' I mysel' were dead and gane, And the green ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... been dead. He could not tell how lang he lay in a trance at the door, but when he gathered himsell he cried on his neighbour, and getting nae answer raised the house, when Dougal was found lying dead within twa steps of the bed where his master's coffin was placed. As for the whistle, it was gane anes and aye; but mony a time was it heard at the top of the house on the bartizan, and amang the auld chimneys and turrets where the howlets have their nests. Sir John hushed the matter up, and the funeral passed over ...
— Stories by English Authors: Scotland • Various
... wist, before I kist, That love had been sae ill to win, I had lockt my heart in a case of gowd And pinn'd it wi' a siller pin. And O! if my young babe were born, And set upon the nurse's knee, And I mysell were dead and gane, And the green grass growing ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... frae this Tolbooth on that awfu' night wi' ane wha wad hae carried me through the warld, and friended me, and fended for me. But I said to them, Let life gang when gude fame is gane before it."—Heart of Midlothian. ...
— The Proverbs of Scotland • Alexander Hislop
... very bad thing. If the wife has gane awa', she has been driven awa' by bad usage. There is an old woman at Braelands that is as evil-hearted as if she had slipped out o' hell for a few years. Traill's girl was good and bonnie; she was too good, or she would have held her ain ...
— A Knight of the Nets • Amelia E. Barr
... owre far gane for't noo; for the fire's a' ta'en up, ye see," reckoning with his fingers, as he proceeded; "there's parritch makin' for oor supper; and there's patatees boiling ...
— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
... said Andrew contemptuously. "She always thocht the callant had a bee in her bonnet. She's gane daft aboot ...
— Steve Young • George Manville Fenn
... like a man in a dream—he looked for the stranger, but he was gane for the time. At last he just tried to say, 'Ha! Dougal Driveower, are ye living? I thought ye ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott
... lady had not the siller if she had pawned her gown; and they applied to the governor o' Stirling castle, and to the major o' the Black Watch; and the governor said it was ower far to the northward, and out of his district; and the major said his men were gane hame to the shearing, and he would not call them out before the victual was got in for all the Cramfeezers in Christendom, let alane the Mearns, for that it would prejudice the country. And in the meanwhile ye'll no ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... bring the place again into men's mouths in like fashion, and seriously affect the service of the farm; such a rumour would certainly be made in the market a ground for demanding more wages to fee to the Mains. "Ye haud yer tongue, laddie," she went on; "it's the least ye can efter a' 'at's come an' gane; an' least said's sunest ...
— Sir Gibbie • George MacDonald
... the grooms"; and sturdily did Caleb roar till the old tower rang again: "John—William—Saunders! The lads are gane out, or sleeping," he observed, after pausing for an answer, which he knew that he had no human chance of receiving. "A' gaes wrang when the Master's out-bye; but I'll take care ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
... lookit fair eneugh— She just was turned o' saxty-three— I couldna guessed she'd prove sae teugh, By human ingenuity. But years have come, and years have gane, And there she's yet as stieve as stane— The limmer's growin' young again, Since ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... much white monie As gane my men and me, An' I brocht a half-fou o' gude red gowd Out ...
— Penelope's Progress - Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
... as much white monie As gane my men and me, And I brought a half-fou' o' gude red goud, Out o'er ...
— A Collection of Ballads • Andrew Lang
... riding Black Alan, with Tam Dickson behind on Whitefoot, and weary enough thae horses looked! Mr. Alexander wad ha' gane without bite or sup to the laird's room, but he's lying asleep. So now he's gane to his ain auld room for a bit of rest. Haith, sir," said Davie, "but he's like the auld ...
— Foes • Mary Johnston
... grace. 'We have a very nice parlour, sir, and everything very agreeable for gentlefolks; but it's bespoke the night for a gentleman and his daughter that are going to leave this part of the country; ane of my chaises is gane for them, and will be back forthwith. They're no sae weel in the warld as they have been; but we're a' subject to ups and downs in this life, as your honour must needs ken,—but is not the tobacco-reek disagreeable to ...
— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... ane for him maks mane, But nane sall ken whar he is gane. Ower his white banes, when they are bare, The wind ...
— Greenmantle • John Buchan
... gane owre the sea, And's plowing thro' the main, And now must make a lang voyage, The ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 • Various
... a' the knowledge o' ye—that is, regarding yoursel and your affairs—that I maybe hae a richt to insist on haein before giein ye the haun o' my dochter—and this for a' the time that ye hae been under my roof—yet, as in that time—noo, I think, something owre twa year gane by—yer conduct has aye been that o' a gentleman, in a' respects—sober, discreet, and reglar; most exemplary, I maun say;—and, as I am satisfied that ye hae the means o' supportin a wife, in a decent way, no to say that there may be muckle owre either, I really think I ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 • Alexander Leighton
... original that would need translating, although they are words still used by every one who speaks Scots to this day. In one page of twenty-seven lines taken at random we find sixteen such words. They are, micht, nicht, lickt, weel, gane, ane, nane, stane, rowit, mirk, nocht, brocht, mair, sperit at, sair, hert. For those who are Scots it is interesting to know how little the language of the people has changed ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall
... GANE, Q.C., with hands folded on knees, sat entranced, listening to this interesting narrative, and watching the illustrations rapidly produced by CAMERON, as he touched the ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, April 4, 1891 • Various
... come and a' days gane, What needs ye rend your hair? But kiss me till the morn's morrow, Then I'll ...
— Poems and Ballads (Third Series) - Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles - Swinburne—Vol. III • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... gane to our noble king, In Edinburgh, where that he lay, That there was an Outlaw in Ettrick Forest Counted him nought and ...
— Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series • Frank Sidgwick
... She had not gane a mile but twa, When she heard the dead-bell ringing, And every jow that the dead-bell geid, It cry'd, ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes
... the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, Sae we may ...
— The Book of Old English Ballads • George Wharton Edwards
... a glisk o' him mysel', sittin' on his hunkers in a hag, as grey's a tombstane. An', troth, he was a fearsome-like taed. But he steered naebody. Nae doobt, if ane that was a reprobate, ane the Lord hated, had gane by there wi' his sin still upon his stamach, nae doobt the creature would hae lowped upo' the likes o' him. But there's deils in the deep sea would yoke on a communicant! Eh, sirs, if ye had gane doon wi' the puir lads ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI • Robert Louis Stevenson
... sheep are in the fauld and the kye a' at hame, When a' the weary world to sleep are gane, The waes o' my heart fa' in showers frae my e'e, While my ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various
... colour in your cheek, that, like the bud of the rose, serveth oft to hide the worm of corruption. Wherefore labour as one who knoweth not when his master calleth. And if it be my lot to return to this village after ye are gane hame to your ain place, these auld withered hands will frame a stane of memorial, that your name may not ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... to the huntin gane His hounds to bring the wild deer hame; His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may ...
— Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age • Various
... is a terrible calamity that hes befaen oor brither, and a'm feelin' as if a' hed lost a bairn o' my ane, for a sweeter lassie didna cross oor kirk door. Nane o' us want tae know what hes happened or where she hes gane, and no a word o' this wull cross oor lips. Her faither's dune mair than cud be expeckit o' mortal man, and noo we have oor duty. It's no the way o' this Session tae cut aff ony member o' the flock at a stroke, and we 'ill no begin with ...
— Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush • Ian Maclaren
... gie you a' the start you need at Aberdeen. Fayther said L30 a year wad do, wi' a carefu' hand to guide it. You'll be Helping yoursel' wi' a bit teaching afore it is a' gane." ...
— A Daughter of Fife • Amelia Edith Barr
... He's gane oot to speak wi' the schoolmaster. He's thinkin' o' takkin' his passage for t' ...
— The Mating of Lydia • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... his menn-es fee, In every place where Robin came, Ever more he laid down, Both for knights and squires, To get him great renown. By then the year was all agone, He had no man but twain, Little John and good Scathlocke, With him all for to gane. ...
— A Bundle of Ballads • Various
... I am content And she thought she hadna faith. Good-night, Dawtie. Ye maun gane to yer bed, an' grow stoot ...
— The Elect Lady • George MacDonald
... far different wi' you that had the best of gude learning frae the gude leddy,' muttered Yusuf. 'My minnie aye needit me to sort the fish and gang her errands, and wad scarce hae sent me to scule, gin I wad hae gane where they girned at me for Partan Jeannie's wean, and gied me mair o' the tawse than of the hornbook. Gin the Lord, as ye ca' Him, had ever seemed to me what ye say He is to you, Maister Arthur, I micht hae thocht twice o'er the ...
— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge
... auld days, an' the schule, an' the sheep we herded thegither on the Ettrick hills. But oor crack aye harkit back to the kirk an' the minister an' the catechism, an' a' thae deeper things o' auld lang syne. He said as hoo he had gane far bye thae things, livin' amang the stour o' a' his siller—but he remarkit that he aften thocht o' the auld ways, an' the auld tunes, an' the minister wi' his goon an' bands; an' he said he was fair starvin' ...
— St. Cuthbert's • Robert E. Knowles
... its borne in on me that we'll tak a dooms lot of managin'. These chaps dinna ken ower weel what they're talkin' aboot. An' they maun say somethin' to please the fellows that keep them in siller. These things hae gane on in Scarva sin' auld lang syne, an' nothin' e'er stappit them. They went on when the Party Processions Act was law, an' tho' the sojers ance cam frae Dublin to stop the demonstration, the Orangemen mustered ...
— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
... home of any strictly orthodox Shinto family there is always a small box containing the ancient instruments used for the lighting of' holy fire. These consist of the hi-uchi-ishi, or 'fire-strike-stone'; the hi-uchi-gane, or steel; the hokuchi, or tinder, made of dried moss; and the tsukegi, fine slivers of resinous pine. A little tinder is laid upon the flint and set smouldering with a few strokes of the steel, and blown upon until it flames. A slip of pine is then ignited at this flame, ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn
... lad gane daft? God has gien to some men wisdom and understanding, to ithers the art o' playing on the fiddle and painting pictures. There shall be no painting, fiddling ...
— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... lands where Lord Beichan was born, Among the stately steps o' stane, He wore the goud at his left shoulder, But to the Holy Land he's gane. ...
— The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories • Andrew Lang
... ye English ca' an aiccent, I know; but, in my judgment, captain Willoughby, the words may be comprehended without a dictionary. It's just that Joel Strides, and Daniel the miller, and the rest o' them that fleed, the past night, have gane into their ain abodes, and have lighted their fires, and put over their pots and kettles, and set up their domestic habitudes, a' the same as if this Beaver Dam was ain ...
— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper
... ye 've gane traivellin' in an' oot o' this kitchen withoot cleanin' yir feet, and ye 've pit yir shoon on the fender, an' hung up yir weet coat on the back o' the door, an' commandit this an' that as if ye were the Doctor himsel', an' a' cud dae naethin', for ye were ...
— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren
... Bethune, puir fellow! Ye maunna take on about sic like laddies, or ye'll greet your e'en out o' your head. It's mony a braw man beside Johnnie Bethune has gane Johnnie-Bethune's gate." ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al
... Merton, as if horrified by the austere reception of his cordial advances. 'Wha's gaumlin'? We mauna play, billies, till he's gane. An unco pernicketty auld carl, thon ane,' he remarked, sotto voce. 'But there's naething in the Company's by-laws again refraishments,' Merton added. He uncorked his bottle, made a pretence of sucking at it, and passed it to his neighbours, ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang
... that!' she answered, with a smile that showed her lovely white teeth: 'ye're a' dubs (all bemired)! What for sud ye be in sic a hurry? Ye saw me no three days gane!' ...
— Heather and Snow • George MacDonald
... ten years after he had gane awa, James Laidlaw came back to our neighbourhood; but he wasna the same lad he left—for he was now a dark-complexioned man, and he had wi' him a mulatto woman, and three bairns that called him faither! He was no ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI • Various
... creature that was not thought possessed of a grain of understanding, could have done so much herself. On entering the door, I beheld Meg sitting with two or three of the neighbouring kimmers, and the corpse laid out on a bed. "Come awa', sir," said Meg; "this is an altered house. They're gane that keepit it bein; but, sir, we maun a' come to this—we maun pay the debt o' nature—death is a grim creditor, and a doctor but brittle bail when the hour of reckoning's at han'! What a pity it is, mother, that you're now dead, for here's the minister come to see you. Oh, sir! but she would ...
— The Annals of the Parish • John Galt
... to the horizon, far as our eyes can reach, and far'er, was for eight centuries the land of the Lairds of Lone. And noo! a' hae gane frae them, and they hae gane frae us, and na mon kens where they bide or how they ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... The deil's gane ower Jock Wabster is a saying which I have been accustomed to in my part of the country from early years. It expresses generally misfortune or confusion, but I am not quite sure of the exact meaning, or who is represented ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... longes bathe the sharpe arrowe ys gane, That never after in all his lyffe-days he spayke mo wordes but ane: That was, 'Fyghte ye, my myrry men, whyllys ye may, for ...
— Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series • Various
... bonie Lesley, As she gaed o'er the Border! She's gane, like Alexander, To spread her ...
— Hollyhock - A Spirit of Mischief • L. T. Meade
... we have gane roun our hill, So now I think it's right we had oor fill Of guid strang punch—'twould make us a' to sing. Because this day we have dune a guid thing; For gangin' roun' oor hill we think nae shame, Because frae it oor peats and flacks ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor
... many bears, Walter and I set forth at daylight for Tregam, leaving Jane and the youthful Lancer (once more, alas! reduced to stiff bandages and a painful relapse) in possession of the hut. We "hadna gane a mile—a mile but barely twa," when the old shikari met us with the painful intelligence that two sahibs were already at Tregam, and had killed many bears there, grievously wounding the rest; so we altered course eight ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne
... gane till the Queen's ain bower, An angry man that day; But bye there cam' May Beatrix ...
— New Collected Rhymes • Andrew Lang
... robber That cam' o'er the border To steal bonny Fanny away? She's gane awa' frae me And the bonny North Countrie And has left me for ever ...
— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell |
