"Limmer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... yon bonny bield; An' Fancy traivels far afield To gaither a' that gairdens yield O' sun an' Simmer: To hearten up a dowie chield, Fancy's the limmer! ...
— Underwoods • Robert Louis Stevenson
... "You did, you young limmer, and you needn't tell me lies, for I know you, Speug, and your father before you. I wish I'd good news to give you, but I haven't. I fear you've had your last ...
— Young Barbarians • Ian Maclaren
... a tirravee! An angry wife was she, than! "An' is it no' my ain affair The day I'm gaun to dee, than! Aha! ye think ye'll tryst the wricht An' rid him o' his timmer? Syne haud anither waddin' wi' Some feckless, thowless limmer!" ...
— The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots • David Rorie
... ye skirling limmer!" said the officer who had acted as master of the ceremonies to this extraordinary performer, and who was rather scandalised at the freedom of her demeanour before a person of Mr. Sharpitlaw's importance—"haud your tongue, or I'se gie ye ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... said Dandie; "but I'll tell ye that after ye are done wi' our supper, for it will maybe no be sae weel to speak about it while that lang-lugged limmer o' a lass is gaun flisking in and ...
— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott
... "Thou limmer," said Wilson, in his thin shriek, "how long 'ul thy dool last? It's na mair to see a woman greet than to see a goose ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine
... marked him this score of years; and whether his kingdom were lost or won, whether his best friends were free or bound, dead or alive, he recked as little as though it were a game of chess, so that he can sit in the ingle neuk at Bourges and toy with Madame de Beaute, shameless limmer that she is! and crack his fists with yon viper, Jamet de Tillay, and the rest of the crew. But he'll let you alone, and has a kindly word for them that don't cross him—and there be those that would go through fire and water for him. He is no that ill! But for ...
— Two Penniless Princesses • Charlotte M. Yonge
... first magnitude: among the fair he is also considered like his friend, Captain P-r-y, a perfect lady-killer:—many a little milliner's girl has had cause to regret the seductive notes of A.Z.B. Limmer's Hotel. ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle
... skelpie-limmer's face! [young hussy's] I daur you try sic sportin', [dare] As seek the foul Thief ony place, [Devil] For him to spae your fortune! [tell] Nae doubt but ye may get a sight! Great cause ye hae to fear it; For mony a ane has gotten a fright, An' lived ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson |
